Here are some recent updates.

• In a win for voters, Stephen Miller’s right-wing legal group voluntarily dismissed its own lawsuit challenging a host of voting rules in Maricopa County, Arizona merely 16 days after filing the case.

  • Of the 10 lawsuits brought by Republicans and their allies aimed at making voting more difficult and elections less secure in the first six weeks of 2024, five of them were filed in Arizona. Marc discussed them, including the now-dismissed Maricopa County case, in his piece last week. Read it here.

• U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.) introduced a sweeping redistricting reform bill to ban partisan gerrymandering in congressional districts and provide an explicit right for citizens to sue over gerrymandered maps.

• Bard College urged more New York colleges to establish on-campus polling places, pointing out that only 25% of private and 38% of public institutions in the state have polling sites despite a 2022 state law requiring them on most college campuses.

• Trial has been scheduled for August 12, 2025 in a lawsuit challenging a Tennessee law that requires a person to be a “bona fide member of” or “declare allegiance” to a political party to vote in a party’s primary election.

• Disability Rights Mississippi and League of Women Voters intervened in a lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee challenging a Mississippi law that counts mail-in ballots that are postmarked by Election Day and received up to five business days later.