Lindsey Gremont, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, et al.
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Whether voters' private rights are infringed when state actors fail to conduct elections according to law and whether the disclosure of a voter's private information gives rise to injury-in-fact
QUESTIONS PRESENTED Petitioners are a group of qualified Texas voters. They sued their respective counties seeking remedy for allegedly conducting their elections on electronic voting systems that fail to comply with the minimum standards prerequisite for their legal use under federal and state law, thereby increasing the risk that their votes will not be fairly counted. The Fifth Circuit held that this asserted injury was an incognizable generalized grievance. Additionally, Petitioners allege that the county Respondents allowed the State’s entire election infrastructure to be unconstitutionally federalized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. As a result, Petitioners claim that private information within their state voter registration record, including insight on their voting behavior, is being disclosed to the federal government. The Fifth Circuit held that this harm fell short of concrete injury and, in any event, was not sufficiently particularized because it affected all registered Texas voters. The questions presented are: 1. Whether voters’ private rights are infringed when state actors fail to conduct elections according to law. 2. Whether the disclosure of a voter’s private information gives rise to injury-in-fact.