Feds take another step to implement Trump’s anti-voting order

• The federal government is taking another step toward implementing the state citizenship list demanded by President Donald Trump’s mail-in voting order, the Justice Department revealed in a notice to a federal court.
  
  

• The Department of Homeland Security approved a plan that would allow states to submit their voter rolls for citizenship verification through the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program (SAVE) system, DOJ said.
  
  

• The plan would also allow states to access citizenship-related data from several agencies to verify voters. The government claims the plan will be operational by the end of the month.
  
  

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Meet ELLY: The voter purge tool an election denier pitched to Georgia's election board

• The new program was promoted by Rick Richards, who created EagleAI — a voter roll database that has been found to use unreliable data to flag voters for removal — and has ties to Cleta Mitchell.
  
  
• Richards urged the board to require counties to use the program to help clean voter rolls. Voting rights advocates have called out similar programs because they use unreliable data that can lead to eligible voters being wrongly removed from the rolls.
  
  

• Why “alarm bells should sound” over the program >>>

Attempt to sneak SAVE America Act into law fails to get even 50 votes

• Republicans tried attaching the anti-voting SAVE America Act to an immigration funding package on Thursday night, but it failed after a 48-50 vote.
  
  
• This is the second time their efforts have failed, with the latest vote showing Republicans don’t even have a simple majority for the proposal. That’s even before reaching the 60-vote threshold needed to overcome a Democratic filibuster.
  
  
• The latest on their failed effort >>>

Trump admin targets federal funds for voter registration

• The Trump administration unveiled a new proposed rule that, if implemented, would bar nonprofits from using federal funds to help Americans register to vote.
  
  
• But there’s one major issue >>>

Trump DOJ says it’s probing California elections amid baseless fraud claims

• A top federal prosecutor in California announced his office is pursuing “multiple” election fraud investigations, amping up Trump’s unfounded attacks on the state’s still-ongoing primary vote count.
  
  
• What did he say about the probes? >>>

Virginia agrees to make voter registration easier for college students

• In a win for Virginia voters, a federal judge approved an agreement that prevents state officials from rejecting college students' voter registration applications solely for missing certain address information. The change will be in effect for the upcoming August primaries.
  
  
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Voting rights isn't just a democracy issue — it's an affordability one

• When voters can elect representatives of their choice, they're more likely to get their needs addressed, our Legal Content Editor Ashley Cleaves writes. But after Callais, Black voters have fewer tools to push for solutions to rising costs.
  
  
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• Why it’s crucial to have representation that’s responsive to communities >>>

Trump says Bill Pulte, new intel chief, will probe ‘rigged elections’

• Trump told reporters that Pulte, a federal housing official with no known experience in intelligence, was qualified to lead the U.S. intelligence community because he would probe elections on Trump’s behalf — an alarming task for the country’s top intelligence officer.
  
  
• More on Trump’s troubling remarks >>>

Florida Supreme Court fast-tracks request to block gerrymander

• The Court granted a voting rights coalition’s request to speed up a decision on whether to block the state’s new gerrymandered congressional map. 
  
  
• The latest on Florida’s gerrymander >>>

DOJ appeals voter information lawsuit dismissals in Wisconsin and Maine

• The DOJ appealed two more dismissals in lawsuits seeking access to unredacted voter data in Wisconsin and Maine; the department appealed each of the eight losses it has accrued in its hunt for sensitive voter information.
  
  
• More on the Wisconsin case >>>

The Supreme Court is about to decide the future of your vote

• The Supreme Court didn't issue any opinions on major democracy cases this week — but the decisions that will shape our country's future are coming. Marc breaks down the three biggest cases on the docket.
  
  

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