Daily Docket — Wednesday, March 27

Here are the major decisions that dropped today.

• In a loss for voters, federal appeals court reversed and remanded a decision ordering Pennsylvania to count otherwise eligible mail-in ballots where voters forgot to write a date on the return envelope. The case will continue in a lower court.

  
  

• In another loss for voters, a federal court upheld Florida's congressional map, ruling the districts are constitutional and do not discriminate against Black voters in North Florida.

  
  

• In a victory for voters, the Montana Supreme Court struck down four voter suppression laws, ruling the statutes disproportionately impacted young voters, voters with disabilities and Native American voters.

  
  

  • The laws eliminated Election Day registration, banned paid ballot collection and curtailed other forms of ballot return assistance and made it more difficult to vote with a student ID. These restrictive rules are permanently blocked for the 2024 election and any future election.

Here are some other updates.

• Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) vetoed a bill passed by the state's Democratic-controlled Legislature to ban guns near polling places, voter registration sites and other election locations.
  

  
  

• In Maricopa County, Arizona, voters are stuck in a loop of corrupt sheriffs who fail to bring real change to the office. It's an unfortunate example of how elections do not always represent the true will of the people, contributor Jessica Pishko argues. Read it here.

  
  

Here’s what’s coming up tomorrow.

• Oral argument begins in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a Republican lawsuit challenging an Illinois mail-in ballot statute. The law allows mail-in ballots to be received and counted for up to two weeks after an election as long as they are postmarked or dated on or before Election Day. Catch up on the case here.

  
  

  • Our senior social media coordinator, Sophie Feldman, breaks down the case on YouTube here.