Democracy Docket
Digital news platform on voting rights, elections and courts, founded 2020 by Marc Elias.
Democracy Docket keeps the scoreboard on the Justice Department's voter-list lawsuits: it counted the 30 September 2026 dismissal of the Georgia case as the department's 26th straight loss.
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Marc Elias, a leading Democratic election lawyer, founded Democracy Docket in 2020 as a digital news platform covering voting rights, elections and the courts. It says it is Independent of his law firm, the Elias Law Group, and that he takes no part in its news-gathering, though The Firm brings many of the cases it covers.
In the 2026 cycle it has followed the Justice Department's voter-data suits case by case and reported procedural moves before other outlets. It also covers redistricting litigation, including Florida's Fair Districts challenge.
Its framing reflects the side its founder litigates for, so its counts and characterisations are best read as a well-sourced partisan tracker rather than a neutral record.
Democracy Docket tallies the department's defeats
Democracy Docket's running count has become the shorthand for how the Justice Department's campaign for state voter files is faring. In early June it was first to report the department's 2 June motion to drop its own database case, at a point when eight of 31 voter-data suits had been dismissed and six were on appeal.
By 30 September the tally had grown. When Judge Victoria Marie Calvert threw out the department's demand for Georgia's full voter list, ruling that a 1960 civil rights law did not override the state's privacy protections, Democracy Docket recorded it as the 26th consecutive loss. Its figure is a count by an outlet founded by a Democratic litigator, not an official one.