On March 19, the voter-plaintiffs filed this supplemental brief in U.S. District Court in Hawaii, in Reeves v Nago, 1:20cv-433. This case, filed last year, challenges the law that forbids former residents of Hawaii to vote absentee, if they have moved to Guam or the U.S. Virgin Islands. If a Hawaii resident had moved to a foreign country, he or she could continue to vote absentee in Hawaii.

The supplemental brief explains that the court could offer relief, if the law were to be judged unconstitutional. It was filed in response to a request from the judge.

On March 22, the Georgia House Special Committee on Election Integrity passed SB 202. It provides that in primary and general elections for partisan office, overseas absentee ballots would use ranked choice voting. This makes it possible to hold earlier run-offs. If no one gets 50% and a runoff is needed, the bill provides that a runoff would be held four weeks after the general election, instead of nine weeks.

If this bill had been in effect in 2020, the two U.S. Senate runoffs would have been held on December 1, 2020, not January 5, 2021.

Other states in which overseas voters use ranked choice voting are Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina.

The bill also transforms Georgia special elections, so that parties would have nominees. Currently, Georgia special general elections lack party nominees. This is why the 2020 special election for U.S. Senate in Georgia had 20 candidates on the November ballot.

The House Committee amended other provisions of the bill, so that now it expands early voting hours. The Senate version shrink early voting hours.

On March 16, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed HB 75. It requires county election officials to administer ranked choice voting for any city that wants to use that system to elect its own officers. So far, this is the first 2021 bill signed into law that advances ranked choice voting.