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 challenging the state's certification of the 2022 gubernatorial midterm results.

  • Lake alleges that illegal votes were cast and she should be declared the winner.

• The Arizona Supreme Court reversed sanctions 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.

  
  

• Tomorrow, Arizona state courts will hold two hearings in lawsuits challenging the 2023 Elections Procedure Manual. Learn more about two cases here.

Here are some other updates.

• A right-wing legal group with ties to John Eastman and Cleta Mitchell filed 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 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 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 a new map into law  that creates two majority-Black districts.

  
  

• The League of Women Voters of Tennessee and voters challenged 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 against the same Tennessee law last year but was dismissed in March for lack of standing.