The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ “broad” reading of the National Voter Registration Act would “obliterate” the states’ constitutionally guaranteed authority over setting voter qualifications, the secretaries of state for three red states argue in an amicus brief filed Friday in arguably the next big election integrity case before the Supreme Court.
RNC v. Mi Familia Vota is about to test whether states have the right to require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, and whether they can remove noncitizens from their voter rolls within the so-called “quiet period” 90 days prior to a federal election.
