Republicans seek to remove thousands of people from voter registration lists.

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Daily Docket — Wednesday, June 12
The latest on redistricting and the fights for fair maps
* A federal court said ([link removed]) it will not reconsider its March decision to uphold Florida's congressional map that eliminated a historically Black district, effectively closing the case. However, there is still an ongoing state-level lawsuit challenging the map.
* A hearing was held ([link removed]) in North Carolina today in a challenge to the state's new congressional and legislative maps. Voters argue that the maps create an unfair partisan advantage for Republican candidates.
* From South Carolina to Louisiana, there have been many recent consequential redistricting decisions that will impact maps nationwide. But the future fights for fair districts will look different in every state. Read more here. ([link removed])

Republicans seek to remove thousands of people from voter registration lists
* The Pigpen Project, a right-wing group formed in 2023 to “clean up” Nevada’s voter registration rolls, has started ([link removed]) trying to purge more than a thousand voters from the Silver State.
* Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans and Voto Latino have moved ([link removed]) to defend Arizona's voter rolls from a lawsuit filed by the state’s Republican Party chair and a right-wing organization that claims 500,000 voters should be purged in the state.
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Montana Republicans ask for more time to file a radical petition in the U.S. Supreme Court
* After the Montana Supreme Court struck down four voter suppression laws, state Republican officials appealed ([link removed]) the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court and have asked the nation’s highest court to reconsider a discredited legal theory that could upend American elections.

Biden campaign says that Trump needs to tell his MAGA allies to drop their mail-in voting lawsuits
* The Biden campaign has called ([link removed]) on the Republican National Committee (RNC) to withdraw its lawsuits trying to restrict mail-in voting since the committee and Trump have both publicly embraced the voting method.
* According to Democracy Docket’s case database, the RNC is involved ([link removed]) in at least 19 ongoing lawsuits challenging mail-in voting rules across 12 different states.

Absentee voting case faces setback but will move forward in Georgia
* A case challenging Georgia’s absentee ballot application deadline will move forward ([link removed]) against Fulton County election officials. The lawsuit alleges that the state's shortened window to request absentee ballots violates the Voting Rights Act.
* Today, a federal judge found that the International Alliance of Theater Stage Employees should not have sued the state election board and dismissed them from the case.

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