Monday, September 16

North Carolina will send ballots without RFK Jr.’s name by next week

• North Carolina is slated to meet Saturday's federal deadline to send absentee ballots to military and overseas voters, the state Board of Elections said, after counties were forced to reprint millions of ballots without Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name.

  
  

• Next Tuesday, the board will then send out absentee ballots to the rest of the voters who have requested them. As of Thursday, more than 166,000 voters have requested ballots in North Carolina. Voters have until Oct. 29 to request them.

Victory for voters in Fulton County, Georgia

• In a win for voters, right-wing Georgia activists voluntarily dismissed their lawsuit that tried to examine the eligibility of every single voter in Fulton County and risked disenfranchisement for potentially thousands before the election.

Groups sue Alabama for removing naturalized citizens from voter rolls

• A coalition of voting rights groups sued Alabama, alleging the state is illegally purging naturalized citizens from its voter rolls. The groups say the purges violate federal laws and the U.S. Constitution.

  
  

• Alabama election officials removed many registered voters who used to have a noncitizen identification number. The plaintiffs alleged this has led to naturalized citizens, who previously identified as noncitizens, being removed from voter rolls.

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Since Jan. 1, 2023

Republicans are losing the vote-by-mail battle in court

• Despite Republicans' continuous efforts to make it harder for people to vote by mail, the party is losing the battle in courts across the country — winning only five lawsuits and losing 20 so far this election cycle. Read more here.

  
  

• Some of these mail-in voting lawsuits were filed by national and/or state Republicans targeting states’ pro-voting policies and others were brought by Democrats challenging GOP voter suppression laws.

UNC student group seeks to defend the use of digital IDs for voting

• A student group at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill moved to protect the status of UNC digital IDs as approved voter IDs.The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a lawsuit last week to block campus affiliates from using these IDs when voting in person.

Court rejects Texas AG’s request to block voter registration efforts

• A Texas court rejected Attorney General Ken Paxton's (R) request to block Bexar County from sending over 200,000 voter registration applications to residents, saying the motion is moot since the county already sent out the forms.