Virginia Dems will redistrict to counter GOP gerrymanders

• In a surprise move, Virginia Democrats will hold a special session starting Monday to redraw the state’s congressional map — making the Old Dominion the second state to propose a redistricting process that could net seats for Democrats ahead of 2026 midterms.
  
  
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DHS’ new election conspiracy theorist denies department is using voter data from DOJ

• Heather Honey, a senior “election integrity” official in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), denied on a call last month with election officials from nearly every state that the department is using voter registration data collected by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to remove noncitizens from voter rolls, according to an election official on the call.
  
  
• Honey’s claim appears to contradict what a DHS spokesperson told Democracy Docket and others in September. At that time, the department said that voter registration data being collected by the DOJ is being shared with DHS as part of a broad push to remove noncitizens from the rolls.
  
  
• The dueling claims add further confusion to what’s known about the administration’s effort, little of which has been announced publicly.
  
  
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The DOJ lawyer and hardcore election denier probing 2020

• A former red-state chief election official who claimed “the CIA interfered in the 2020 election and stole it from President Trump” is playing a key role in the DOJ’s broad effort to restrict voting access and investigate false claims about 2020.
  
  
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The SCOTUS case that could gut the Voting Rights Act

• Last week, after more than two-and-a-half hours of oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court seemed poised to make it much easier for GOP-led states to rig elections through redistricting efforts.
  
  
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• Even more on the GOP’s anti-democratic gerrymander drive kicking into high gear >>>