Legal challenges to elections manual go on and on and on

• Litigation over 2023 EPM prompts changes in 2025 draft • A litany of legal questions still remain in flux and on appeal • Public comment opens manual up to another round of edits

A draft of the 2025 Elections Procedures Manual spun out of a web of litigation over the prior elections guidebook, with some provisions yielding to successful legal challenges from Republicans and others still waiting on pending lawsuits.

Since its adoption, the 2023 EPM has faced a surge of litigation, leading to manual changes in 2025, many of which conform to court rulings.

Still, the fight is far from over.

Though Secretary of State Adrian Fontes ceded some ground, some key legal questions are still on appeal. And the Legislature, both the state and national Republican parties, and some conservative