A federal judge in Michigan has granted the state’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit in which the Republican National Committee (RNC) alleged the state had failed to maintain its voter rolls in accordance with federal law.
Neither the RNC nor the two individual voter plaintiffs had standing to bring the case under Article III of the Constitution, Western District of Michigan Judge Jane Beckering held in her Oct. 22 opinion.
Beckering added that even if one of the plaintiffs had had standing, which is considered a threshold to weigh other issues, she wouldn’t have found that they plausibly alleged a violation of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). Passed in 1993, the law has come up in other lawsuits during the 2024 election cycle and generally seeks to protect the integrity of voter rolls….