'Double-whiff': Judges smack down Republicans' efforts to change voter rolls in two swing states
Republicans were hit with "double-whiff' on Tuesday by federal judges in two swing states, after attempting to adjust voter rolls just days ahead of the presidential election, Politico reports.
Per the report, a judge in North Carolina "declined to allow a state court to hear a GOP suit seeking an additional verification procedure for about 225,000 voters," and in Pennsylvania, a judge "tossed a lawsuit brought by several GOP members of Congress that could have upended the state’s procedures for handling overseas ballots."
Pennsylvania's US District Judge Christopher Connor wrote in his opinion, "Plaintiffs sought an order directing the county boards of elections to segregate ballots for potential exclusion and to impose new verification procedures."
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He continued, "An injunction at this late hour would upend the Commonwealth’s carefully laid election administration procedures to the detriment of untold thousands of voters, to say nothing of the state and county administrators who would be expected to implement these new procedures on top of their current duties."
Politico notes these two instances are just the latest in the GOP's "quest" to make "last-minute" changes to voter rolls across the country.
"Last week, a federal judge in Virginia sided with the Justice Department against an effort by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin to make significant updates to state voter rolls in an effort to weed out suspected non-citizens," the news outlet reports.
Politico's full report is available here.
