Here are some updates.

• The Alabama House passed a new congressional map that does not contain a second majority-Black district as the U.S. Supreme Court required in its decision in Allen v. Milligan. 

  • The House map now heads to the state Senate, which will vote later today on a separate proposed map that also fails to include a second majority-black district. A court-appointed special master may take over the map drawing process if necessary.

• A lawsuit was filed by the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and four individuals with former felony convictions challenging Florida’s onerous and inconsistent system for voting rights restoration as well as the state’s “election police” unit. The plaintiffs allege that the current system violates Section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act as well as the First and 14th Amendments.

• Next month, Georgia plans to cancel over 191,000 voter registrations of people who officials believe have either recently moved or have not voted in five years. Voting rights advocates are worried that the cancellations will affect voters who still reside and are eligible to vote in Georgia.