The Federalist highlighted the Center for Election Confidence’s (CEC) joint amicus brief with the Honest Elections Project (HEP) supporting Ohio’s appeal of a preliminary injunction against the state’s documentary proof-of-citizenship requirement in its bundled Bureau of Motor Vehicles licensing and voter-registration process. The case is captioned Red Wine & Blue v. LaRose.

The coverage reported that CEC and the Honest Elections Project urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to stay the district court’s temporary ruling pending appeal, which concluded that the challenged requirement is preempted by the National Voter Registration Act.

The Federalist emphasized the amici’s argument that the challenge should no longer proceed because the voters whose circumstances supported the lawsuit subsequently obtained Ohio driver’s licenses, have BMV records reflecting citizenship, and registered to vote. The article also described CEC and HEP’s merits argument that the Constitution gives states authority to set and enforce voter qualifications and that Ohio’s citizenship-verification requirement falls within that authority.

The article prominently featured CEC Executive Director Lisa Dixon’s response: “Like millions of other Ohioans, the voters challenging the law offered proof of citizenship and registered to vote successfully, so this lawsuit should end now.”

CEC and HEP are asking the Sixth Circuit to lift the preliminary injunction and allow Ohio’s challenged BMV voter-registration requirement to take effect.