In two separate cases, federal courts stopped Republicans from attacking voting rights in Michigan and Georgia.
In Michigan, an illegal voter purge was blocked:
🚨BREAKING: Michigan federal court grants our motion to intervene to stop illegal voter purge. We will not stand by and let the GOP block lawful voters from voting.
We will stop the purge!https://t.co/JFsAtODGja
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— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) September 28, 2020
In Georgia, a federal judge required backup paper ballots for all votes cast:
🚨BREAKING: Georgia federal court rules GA Secretary of state “to require the use of a paper backup of the electronic pollbook to prevent voter disenfranchisement.â€
Congrats to the Coalition for Good Governance on their victory. pic.twitter.com/fw05j7Cy7M
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) September 28, 2020
In Pennsylvania, the state Republican Party is trying to get the US Supreme Court to overrule the state supreme court’s ruling protecting voting rights:
🚨BREAKING: The Pennsylvania Republican Party is also now SEEKING an emergency stay in SCOTUS to block the PA state Supreme Court’s opinion protection voting rights.
Follow @DemocracyDocket for updates on this and other breaking voting cases.https://t.co/Mda1JZAWDQ
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) September 28, 2020
The odds of the Supreme Court intervening are slim, because Republicans tried this same ploy after the state redistricting ruling, and Justice Alito turned them down. There is no area of unsettled law, so the odds of SCOTUS getting involved are very low.
Voters got two big victories out of federal courts in the critical states of Michigan and Georgia. After the fiasco that was the Georgia gubernatorial election that saw Stacey Abrams robbed in the view of many getting paper backup ballots is critical to making sure that voters aren’t disenfranchised and every vote counts.
In Michigan, Republicans tried to cut voters out of the electorate to help Trump,
Republicans can’t win at the ballot box, so they are trying to use the court system to stay in power, but so far, voting rights advocates are ready and their schemes are failing.
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