Dagusen v. Aguilar 

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Political party organizations and a political campaign sued Nevada’s Secretary of State, seeking to require him to purge the State’s voter rolls in an unreliable and discriminatory way. ELC supported the ACLU of Nevada and Protect Democracy in an amicus brief supporting dismissal of the case.  The brief pointed out that the data underlying the complaint was flawed: the plaintiffs relied on cherry-picked survey responses and drew inferences from the responses that were contrary to basic statistical inferences and against the explicit warnings of the survey’s principal investigators. Additionally, the way plaintiffs sought to use the data would violate the National Voter Registration Act, because it would disproportionately affect people of color.