Union sues Georgia over absentee ballot deadline.

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Daily Docket — Thursday, Oct. 26
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Federal Judge Orders New Congressional and Legislative Maps in Georgia ([link removed])

By Madeleine Greenberg

New maps, a new lawsuit and the kick-off to a long-awaited trial in Georgia.
* A federal judge ordered ([link removed]) Georgia to enact new maps with an additional majority-Black congressional district and seven additional majority-Black state legislative districts by Dec. 8. If the Legislature does not enact fair districts, the court will. The judge ruled that the current maps violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) by diluting Black voting power.
* Theater employee union members sued ([link removed]) over Georgia’s absentee ballot deadline. The VRA says that voters can ask for a ballot up to seven days before a presidential election, but Georgia requires absentee ballots to be requested 11 days beforehand.
* Also in Georgia, trial began ([link removed]) in a lawsuit challenging True the Vote’s alleged voter intimidation tactics in the state. Plaintiffs argue that the organization's actions violate the VRA.
+ True the Vote is a Texas-based right-wing group whose mission is “to train citizens to protect election integrity at the polls.” In 2020, the group launched the largest mass voter challenge in Georgia history by contesting ([link removed]) the eligibility of over 364,000 voters.

Here are a couple of updates from Ohio.
* Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) canceled ([link removed]) over 26,000 voter registrations six days after voters began receiving ballots for the upcoming November elections.
* The constitutional amendment to establish an independent redistricting commission ballot initiative in Ohio suffered ([link removed]) a setback after a single typo was discovered in the summary. The group must collect another 1,000 signatures and resubmit the language for approval to get on the 2024 ballot.

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