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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Diluted votes in DC?

WASHINGTON — The D.C. Circuit reversed a Washington federal court’s decision to dismiss some citizens’ challenge to a law allowing non-citizens to vote in city elections. Because the law expands the electorate and therefore risks diluting each citizens’ votes in local elections, the suing citizens have plausibly pleaded a “particularized injury to their vote.”

Read the ruling here.

Categories / Appeals, Briefs, Civil Rights, Elections, Government

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