Arizona Supreme Court reverses sanctions against state’s GOP.

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Daily Docket — Thursday, May 2

Challenges to election results and procedures in Arizona heat up.
* Today, an Arizona appeals court heard oral argument in Kari Lake's lawsuit ([link removed]) challenging the state's certification of the 2022 gubernatorial midterm results.
+ Lake alleges ([link removed]) that illegal votes were cast and she should be declared the winner.

* The Arizona Supreme Court reversed ([link removed]) [link removed] against the state’s Republican Party for its 2020 election challenge.
+ The decision ends the last active case of the 65 post-election lawsuits Trump and allies filed in an attempt to overturn the election.
* A little-known conservative group has filed three high-profile election lawsuits this cycle and could throw a major wrench in Arizona’s 2024 election.
Read about the Arizona Free Enterprise Club here ([link removed]) .
* Tomorrow, Arizona state courts will hold two hearings in lawsuits challenging the 2023 Elections Procedure Manual. Learn more about two ([link removed]) cases ([link removed]) here.

Here are some other updates.
* A right-wing legal group with ties to John Eastman and Cleta Mitchell filed ([link removed]) lawsuits to get access to voter records in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
+ The group claims that the states are violating federal law by not giving them full access to the rolls.
* Wyoming voided ([link removed]) 28% of its voter registrations — about 83,500 people — following a voter purge mandated by state law.
+ Wyoming law requires county clerks to cancel the registrations of voters who did not vote in the most recent general election.

* Pennsylvania House Democrats passed ([link removed]) a bill permitting officials to begin counting returned mail-in ballots seven days before Election Day.
+ Current state law only allows ballots to begin being counted on Election Day, contributing to delays in results.
* Voters in Louisiana will have new state Supreme Court districts for the first time in over 20 years after Gov. Jeff Landry (R) last night signed ([link removed]) a new map into law that creates two majority-Black districts.
* The League of Women Voters of Tennessee and voters challenged ([link removed]) a Tennessee law that requires primary voters to be “bona fide” members of or “declare allegiance” to a political party. The lawsuit claims the law is unconstitutionally vague.
+ A similar lawsuit was filed ([link removed]) against the same Tennessee law last year but was dismissed in March for lack of standing.

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