Above the Law readers are offered 1 free CLE course each month, thanks to Lawline. See this month’s offering here. From Lawline Judges stepped in in hundreds of instances to clarify the laws that were constitutional and to strike down laws that violated the Constitution. As with any legal issue that affects the nation, judges had differential roles based on their geographic locations. This post looks at pre-election voting related litigation by analyzing the major players and the hotbeds of litigation. It also looks at where the next epicenters in voting rights litigation may be located. Many of the voting rights cases did not lead to straightforward outcomes, and judges needed to fashion remedies that account for both the promulgated laws and the rights of individual voters. One of the most active judges in litigation, Judge Eleanor Ross from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, provided an example of balancing such interests with her opinion in Cooper v. Raffensperger. This case dealt with ballot access for third party candidates in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.