---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 21111"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "21111"
heading: "Actions by the Attorney General for declaratory and injunctive relief"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/21111"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Voting Assistance and Election Administration"
  - "Chapter 209 — Election Administration Improvement"
  - "Subchapter IV — Enforcement"
---

# §21111. Actions by the Attorney General for declaratory and injunctive relief


The Attorney General may bring a civil action against any [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) or jurisdiction in an appropriate United States District Court for such declaratory and injunctive relief (including a temporary restraining order, a permanent or temporary injunction, or other order) as may be necessary to carry out the uniform and nondiscriminatory [election](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) technology and administration requirements under sections [21081](/usc/52/21081.md), [21082](/usc/52/21082.md), [21083](/usc/52/21083.md), and [21083a](/usc/52/21083a.md) of this title.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–252, title IV, § 401, Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1715; Pub. L. 118–106, § 2(b), Oct. 4, 2024, 138 Stat. 1593.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 15511 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

2024—Pub. L. 118–106 substituted “21083, and 21083a” for “and 21083”.