Arizona demands Maricopa County restore citizens’ voting registrations
Arizona’s attorney general sued Maricopa County to restore 25 voters’ registrations after they were falsely flagged as noncitizens.
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Supreme Court must preserve protections against last-minute purges, advocates warn
Voting rights groups urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold federal protections against purges within 90 days of an election, warning that last-minute removals can disenfranchise eligible voters.
Supreme Court could take up these critical election cases as new term begins
Out of thousands of lawsuits currently seeking the Court’s review, Democracy Docket’s Research Team has identified five voting rights and elections cases we’ll be looking out for.
How rogue counties could help Trump and throw the midterms into chaos after Election Day
Since 2020, certification has increasingly become a tool for fringe local officials to delay results, force state intervention and cast doubt on votes they are legally required to finalize.
States challenging Trump’s mail voting rule must mail more than 51 million ballots by late October
More than 51 million mail ballots will be sent to voters in the coming weeks just from the District of Columbia and the two dozen states that are challenging the Trump administration’s 11th-hour attack on mail voting.
Republicans, Trump DOJ press Supreme Court to weaken federal protection against last-minute voter purges
The Republican National Committee (RNC) and Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to severely weaken a federal safeguard meant to prevent voter purges right before elections.
Court revives Arizona voting restrictions ahead of midterms
The Ninth Circuit ruled to uphold previously blocked voting laws in Arizona that will go into effect in time for the state’s midterm general election, making it harder for some voters to cast ballots.
States sue Trump admin for withholding $148M in disaster aid over ‘unlawful’ election demands
A group of 25 states and Washington, D.C. is suing the Trump administration, accusing federal officials of leveraging billions of dollars in federal disaster grant funding in an attempt to coerce states into implementing the president’s anti-voting agenda.
Most of Trump DOJ’s voter roll losses have come from GOP-appointed judges
In an era of extraordinary partisan polarization, federal judges appointed by presidents of both parties have found common ground on at least one issue: President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice does not have a right to seize state voter rolls.
Maricopa County hands election denier control over early voting and drop boxes
Maricopa County officials reached a settlement, ending a yearlong fight over control of elections in Arizona’s most populous county. The agreement gives Recorder Justin Heap broad authority over early voting while leaving Election Day operations and ballot counting with the county Board of Supervisors.
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