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Pro-voting groups asked a federal appeals court Monday to stop Florida, Ohio, Iowa and Indiana from using the Trump administration’s expanded SAVE database for mass voter screenings.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assured a judge in Washington, D.C., that it was shuttering a controversial citizenship database, but would make the tool available to four Republican-led states on a different judge’s orders. The paradoxical situation emerged after both federal judges issued contradictory rulings on the database, which critics say is ill-suited for voter verification and prone to flagging U.S. citizens as potential noncitizens.
A federal judge in Florida ruled that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must allow four Republican-led states to again use a federal database to search for noncitizens on their voter registration rolls. The decision conflicts with a previous ruling by a federal judge in Washington, D.C. that blocked access to the database. It will likely unspool into a tangle of competing court orders in the coming months.
Four Republican-led states want their access restored to a federal database for checking their voter registration records for noncitizens.
Indiana Democrats are calling on their state’s anti-voting Secretary of State Diego Morales (R) to recuse himself from overseeing the recount process for a close state senate primary election between a Republican incumbent and a challenger supported by President Donald Trump.
Several Republican Indiana state senators targeted by President Donald Trump after opposing a mid-decade congressional gerrymander lost their primaries, signaling that resistance to Trump’s agenda inside the GOP still carries some political risk.
The legal cases are primarily concentrated in the South, where America’s legacy of racial discrimination still casts the longest shadow over voting rights.
A federal appeals court reinstated Indiana’s GOP-backed ban on student IDs for voting — abruptly pausing a ruling which allowed students to cast ballots with their college-issued IDs. In an order Monday, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals granted the state’s emergency request to stay the lower court’s ruling, putting the ban back into effect […]
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A federal judge blocked Indiana’s ban on using student IDs for voter identification, a victory that will make it easier for students and young voters to cast ballots in the upcoming midterm elections.
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