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A federal court has blocked for now an Ohio law that makes voting more difficult by requiring residents to provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
The failed bill, which required a narrow set of photo IDs for voter eligibility, could have prevented millions of people from voting in November’s midterms.
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.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have implemented new mail voting restrictions, arguing the measure was not necessary and would have proved too burdensome for voters.
Ohio voting advocates are calling on Gov. Mike DeWine to veto a bill creating new mail voting restrictions that would go into effect for the 2027 elections.
A federal judge rejected the Trump Justice Department’s attempt to defend Ohio’s restrictive new voting law, finding its proposed filing redundant, disconnected and too late to help the court ahead of a major hearing next week.
As the midterms get closer, President Donald Trump and his allies are kicking their efforts to suppress voting into high gear.
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