Here are some updates from today.

• New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed a package of 10 bills into law that expand voting rights and promote democracy in the state.

  • Hours after being signed into law, the Republican National Committee and other Republicans sued over the New York Early Mail Voter Act. The GOP argues the law, which allows all voters to vote by mail during the early voting period, violates the New York Constitution.

• The Ohio Redistricting Commission voted 4-2 along party-lines to use legislative maps proposed by Republicans as the commission's working draft, which will be subject to public review. The maps would maintain the Republican stranglehold on the Legislature.

• Also in Ohio, the state’s Supreme Court ordered a small tweak to the GOP rewrite of ballot language for an abortion rights amendment that will be before voters in November. Reproductive rights groups argue that the ballot language, written by Republican officials, is misleading.

• Alabama submitted its reply brief to the pro-voting parties in the congressional redistricting case before the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing it has been "maligned as engaging in 'open rebellion'" by the courts when it enacted a new map with only one majority-Black district.

• The town board in Mount Pleasant, New York lacks any Latino representation, despite Latinos making up nearly 20% of the town's population. A formal complaint arguing that the town’s at-large system disenfranchises Latinos has been filed with the town, setting up the first test of the state-level Voting Rights Act New York passed last year. Read more about New York's state-level Voting Rights Act here.