Breaking: Supreme Court Upholds Republican-Backed Arizona Voting Restrictions

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld two provisions of Arizona voting law, one restricting the practice of ballot-harvesting and another requiring that ballots cast at the wrong precinct on election day be discarded.

Ballot harvesting is a practice by which a third party collects ballots from registered voters during an election. Arizona prohibits ballot harvesting except when the person collecting a ballot is a family member, caregiver, or election official.

Democrats have alleged that the Arizona law is discriminatory against minority voters.

However, the law “was not enacted with a discriminatory purpose,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion.

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