DECISION & ORDER On February 22, 2023, the pro se plaintiff, Ralph Mohr, asked this Court to redraw the Erie County legislative districts so that candidates could begin qualifying for party primaries using preexisting district boundaries. Docket Item 4. That request came more than a year after Erie County adopted the legislative map that is the subject of Mohr’s lawsuit, and more than a month after Mohr commenced that lawsuit, but only six days before candidates could begin to circulate designating petitions for party primaries. For that reason, this Court addressed Mohr’s request on an expedited schedule. See Docket Item 6. Because Mohr has not established standing to obtain a preliminary injunction, his request is denied. Mohr may amend his complaint or otherwise establish that he has standing to pursue his claims in this case within 30 days of the date of this order. BACKGROUND1 Mohr is one of two Election Commissioners on the Erie County Board of Elections. Docket Item 1 at 4. He resides in Lancaster, New York, and “expects to vote in the upcoming primary and general elections to be held this year.” Id. In 2011, Mohr filed suit in this Court after Erie County “fail[ed] to adopt a plan of apportionment for its legislature.” Id. at 11. That case ended when United States District Judge William M. Skretny divided Erie County into eleven legislative districts and directed the Erie County Board of Elections to establish metes and bounds for those eleven districts. See Mohr v. Erie Cnty. Legislature, 2011 WL 3421326, at *7 (W.D.N.Y. Aug. 4, 2011). Those districts remained in effect for the rest of the decade. See Docket Item 1 at 12. After the 2020 United States Census, the Erie County Legislature reviewed and revised the eleven legislative districts. Id. at
12-13. On December 16, 2021, the Erie County Legislature “unanimously adopted a proposed local law containing a metes[-]and[-]bounds description of eleven purportedly new legislative districts.” Id. at 14. Before Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz approved the proposed law, Mohr “discovered numerous errors in the metes[-]and[-]bounds description” of the eleven districts. Id. at 15. In fact, Mohr discovered that the proposed law “referenced districts extending to points outside [] Erie County, purported to contain points of intersection along lines which did not intersect, included voters of the county in multiple districts[,] and excluded other voters in the county [altogether].” Id. at 16. Mohr twice raised these issues with Erie County officials before the proposed law was approved: first in a conversation with then-First Assistant Erie County Attorney Jeremy Toth and next at a public hearing on the proposed law. Id. at
