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GOP Challenges Extreme Absentee Voter Law Spreading Around the Country

Republicans are seeking to squash a voting law metastasizing through the nation that allows citizens to vote in states they have never inhabited. 

The Nebraska Supreme Court could decide the constitutionality of a state law that allows U.S. citizens living abroad who have not lived in the state—or even lived in the United States—to vote in Nebraska elections. Nebraska is one of three dozen states that allow some form of this law.

The Republican National Committee has litigated what it calls “Never Resident” voting laws in seven states, joining local plaintiffs. A state high court ruling could put the matter on a pathway to the U.S. Supreme Court and establish a national precedent. 

“The RNC is taking this fight all the way to the Nebraska Supreme Court because Nebraska elections should be decided by Nebraska voters, period,” Ally Triolo, RNC election integrity communications director, told the Daily Signal. “This loophole allows certain people who have never lived in the state to vote, weakening the safeguards that protect election integrity. We’re fighting to close it, protect the ballot box, and uphold the law.” 

Two Nebraska voters, Jack Riggins and Pamela Dingman, who filed the complaint, were........

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