All articles tagged with #national voter registration act
The Supreme Court preserved state post-election grace periods for counting postmarked mail ballots, a win for states but a political setback for Trump, while also agreeing to hear an Arizona case that could revive citizenship-proof requirements under the National Voter Registration Act and enable pre-election mass purges of noncitizens, signaling more election-law battles ahead toward 2028.
A federal judge dismissed the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking California’s voter rolls, calling the demand unprecedented, illegal and a threat to democracy, and warned that centralizing such data could chill voter registration and turnout. The ruling sides with California officials who argued the data request overstepped federal authority and improperly used civil rights laws to amass millions of voter records. The decision halts the DOJ’s bid tied to broader federal efforts to scrub and review voter rolls ahead of elections.