🚨On Tuesday March 2nd, the Supreme Court will hear the most important voting rights case of the term

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Marc E. Elias
@marceelias
🚨On Tuesday March 2nd, the Supreme Court will hear the most important voting rights case of the term: Brnovich v. DNC.

⚖️CASE WATCH: Brnovich v. DNC
democracydocket.com
https://t.co/RXF0QaCTmm?amp=1

[elleng]

1. Arizona Ballot Collection and Out-of-Precinct Ballots

The lawsuit is over five years in the making.

'In 2013, when the Supreme Court struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act in its Shelby County v. Holder decision, Arizona was suddenly released from the “preclearance” requirement. Before Shelby, Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act had required states with a history of suppressing minority voters—like Arizona—to receive preclearance by the DOJ or D.C. District Court before changing any of the state’s voting laws.

The result? In less than three years, Arizona “created a culture of voter disenfranchisement” by passing strict election laws that suppressed voters across the state, and which fell especially hard on minority voters.

One of these bills, passed in 2016, made it a felony to return someone else’s signed and sealed ballot. This practice—also known as ballot collection—was particularly popular among the Latinx community, who often have activists assist them by collecting their ballots during the get-out-the-vote period, and by Native Americans, many of whom live on rural tribal lands and lack easy access to a mailbox or post office. However, Republicans in the state had rallied against ballot collection after the former head of the Maricopa County Republicans spread an “inaccurate” and “racially tinged” video that falsely accused a Hispanic man of dropping off fraudulently “harvested” ballots.'

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2. Thanks for the background info elleng. Definitely worthwhile keeping an eye on this case.

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3. Thanks for posting..

I remember reading about this when the Ninth Circuit struck it down.. now SCOTUS gets a crack at it.

[crickets]

4. The Democracy Docket link is well worth the read. K&R

direct link:
https://www.democracydocket.com/2021/02/brnovich-v-dnc/