Daily Docket — Tuesday, June 20

What Trial Testimony Tells Us About South Carolina Racial Gerrymandering [link removed]

Here are some legislation updates you may have missed.

Today is Election Day in Virginia! These primaries are the first election since Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) reinstated a lifetime ban on voting for people with felony convictions. [link removed]

Over the weekend, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed two bills that target Harris County’s elections. The laws permit the state to take over election administration and abolish the nonpartisan election administrator position in Harris County. [link removed]

Also this weekend, Abbott vetoed a bill that would have improved voting access for voters with disabilities and signed a law that requires election workers to allow voters with mobility problems to skip the line when voting in person.[link removed]

Last week, Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo (R) signed two election bills into law and vetoed three others. [link removed]

The two new laws require the secretary of state to produce an election manual submitted for legislative approval and streamline the establishment of polling places and drop boxes on Native American reservations.

The vetoed bills would have expanded ballot access to voters with disabilities and non-English speakers, permitted additional types of IDs to be used for same-day voter registration and more.

Here’s what happened in the courts today.

This afternoon, there was a hearing in a Florida case on whether the statewide voter registration application violates the National Voter Registration Act. The defendants are asking the court to dismiss the case. [link removed]

In Alabama, a federal court said the Legislature has until July 21 to enact a new congressional map. This follows the U.S. Supreme Court's decision affirming that Alabama must draw a second majority-Black district to comply with the Voting Rights Act. [link removed]

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