The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Husted v Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, 16-980, later this year, or possibly early next year. All the briefs should be completely filed by September 15, 2017, and then the Court will set a hearing date. The issue is the interpretation of the federal law on voter registration. Ohio interprets it to allow it to purge voters from the registration rolls if they haven’t voted in the last two years. But the Sixth Circuit ruled earlier that Ohio’s interpretation is erroneous, and the purge can’t take place except after four years of non-voting.

On August 7, the New Hampshire Secretary of State said he is only going to send photocopies of completed voter registration forms to the federal advisory commission set up to investigate vote fraud. He will not turn over the state’s computerized list of voters. See this story. Therefore, the plaintiffs have dismissed their lawsuit.

Political scientists Bernard Grofman and German Feierherd have this Washington Post article on how other democratic countries handle redistricting. The number one point in the article is that most democracies do not use single-winner districts. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.