Supreme Court Supports GOP-Backed Arizona Voting Rights In 6-3 Con/Lib Split

The US Supreme Court has upheld voting rules in the swing state of Arizona backed by Republicans but decried by Democrats as discriminatory.

• In the case of Brnovich (the Attorney General of Arizona) vs. the DNC the court split along ideological 6 to 3 in favour of upholding the current rules, with the three liberal justices (Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer) in the minority.
• The current rules forbid anyone apart from voters, family members or carers from submitting ballots and rejecting votes cast in the incorrect precincts, and the court ruled that these provisions do not violate federal law.
• Voting rights is set to remain a major hot-button partisan issue in US politics over the long term, with Democrats advancing legislation at the federal level that seeks to widen participation, with Republicans claiming new voting rights acts would risk the sanctity of the protected ballot and allow those who are not regsitered/eligible to vote do so.