One in 10 eligible voters can’t easily provide proof of citizenship, a new survey finds.
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Daily Docket — Wednesday, June 12
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* An Arizona appeals court rejected ([link removed]) Kari Lake's lawsuit seeking to overturn her loss in the 2022 gubernatorial race. This is the sixth time Lake's election contest has been dismissed by state courts.
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Millions of eligible U.S. voters can’t easily provide proof of citizenship
* As congressional Republicans push a nationwide proof of citizenship bill, a new survey revealed ([link removed]) that one in 10 voting-age citizens in the U.S. cannot easily access documents to prove their citizenship.
* Survey conductors said, “this disproportionately affects marginalized racial and ethnic groups.”
Pennsylvania rejects undated and misdated ballots, and it harms voters
* A Pennsylvania law that prohibits misdated and undated mail-in ballots from being counted led ([link removed]) to the rejection of thousands of ballots in the state’s 2024 primary election. Some were able to be corrected. However, the process of correcting a ballot is not accessible for some individuals, including senior citizens and people with disabilities.
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