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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Virginia Democrats’ emergency request to revive a voter-approved plan that would have allowed the state to redraw its congressional map in response to Republican gerrymanders in other states.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) announced he is granting clemency to Tina Peters — the former election official convicted for her role in a voting system breach — cutting her sentence and making her eligible for parole as soon as next month.
Cleta Mitchell’s anti-voting group released a sweeping new “model laws” handbook Thursday that urges lawmakers and election officials to severely restrict mail-in voting, eliminate same-day voter registration, conduct mass voter challenges and empower officials to deny and delay certification.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) said the state will hold its 2026 congressional elections under its current 2021 map, even as Democrats wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether to pause a ruling that nullified the state’s voter-approved redistricting referendum.
The NAACP and a coalition of pro-voting groups filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging Tennessee’s new Republican congressional gerrymander that dismantled the state’s only majority-Black district just days after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights act.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) called for lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional and legislative maps for 2028, adding Georgia to the growing list of southern states poised to wipe out majority-Black districts before the next presidential election.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) said Republicans are planning to redraw the state’s congressional map and dismantle the state’s lone majority-Black district by 2027.
Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) removed Democratic lawmakers from House committees Tuesday after they protested the GOP’s newly enacted congressional gerrymander that eliminated the state’s lone majority-Black district.
With a key appeal looming, the Department of Justice cited an unusual source to defend its sweeping voter roll demands: itself.
A right-wing legal group filed a federal lawsuit seeking to strike down Illinois’ Voting Rights Act, opening the first direct challenges to state-level voting protections since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the federal Voting Rights Act.
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