On June 23, U.S. District Court Judge Myron Thompson, a Carter appointee, refused to dismiss part of the lawsuit Greater Birmingham Ministries v Merrill, m.d., 2:22cv-205. This is the case over access to the list of voters who have been purged. The case is based on the federal voting rights act.

The state had tried to persuade the judge that the federal Voting Rights Act doesn’t apply, because the Act only talks about a “photocopy” of the list of registered voters. The state said the plaintiffs want an electronic copy, and the Act doesn’t mention electronic copies. Of course, when the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, there was no such concept. But the judge denied the state’s request.

According to this story, a lawsuit to force the Alaska Division of Elections to put four candidates on the August special general election, instead of three, has already been filed. The article indicates that the judge stated orally that he believes the Division of Elections is correct, and that only three candidates will appear.

The North Carolina Green Party has received information that an organized Democratic Party group has the list of persons who signed the 2022 Green Party ballot access petition, and Democrats are phoning the signers and asking them to retract their signatures. It is too late for the Green Party to be adding any new signers. The counties have already checked the signatures and the Green Party has enough valid signatures. There is no provision in the North Carolina election code for signers to retract their signatures from a party petition.