RNC targets Delaware in its legal attack on voter rolls

• The Republican National Committee (RNC) claims it just wants to verify Delaware’s voter rolls, but past attempts reveal an agenda to purge voters and sow doubt about how states run elections.
  
  
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DOJ gives new assurance it won’t use voter data for immigration enforcement. Reports suggest that’s false

• During a hearing seeking Maine’s voter rolls, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said it only wants the data for “election-related purposes.” That sharply contradicts a recent report that the department is preparing to share that same data with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for purposes beyond election law.
  
  
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A win for voters in Arizona 

• The Arizona Supreme Court declined to review three GOP cases: a challenge to a provision of the state’s Election Procedure Manual (EPM) allowing signature verification by comparing ballot signatures with voter records, a lawsuit seeking to allow hand-counting ballots in Mohave County, and a challenge to two more EPM provisions.

The SAVE America Act: A modern-day poll tax

• When Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-Va.) was sworn into office, she put her hand on her father’s Bible, where he kept the receipt of a poll tax he paid in 1947 when registering to vote.
  
  
• In an op-ed for Democracy Docket, Rep. McClellan explains how the SAVE America Act would impose a modern-day poll tax, reversing decades of progress made by voting rights advocates.

Coming up tomorrow

• The Nebraska Supreme Court will hear a lawsuit, filed by the pro-voting group Common Cause, to block the state from sharing private voter data with the U.S. Department of Justice after a lower court dismissed the lawsuit due to lack of standing.
  
  

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