From New York Times, I'm Michael Borrow. This is a Daily.

As Republicans waste a restrict voting in states across the country,

and Democrats look for ways to block their efforts, the Supreme Court is set to issue a ruling

as early as today that will reveal whether it's willing to step in and settle the fight.

I spoke with my colleague Adam Luttape about the story behind the case and where the

justices are likely to land. It's Monday, June 21st.

Hello, Mr. Luttape. Oh, oh, oh. Sorry, I... I didn't... I had myself muted. I'm out of practice.

Get back in the game, Michael. As any listener of the Daily, would know.

Adam, describe this case and the story of how it arrived at the Supreme Court.

In 2016, Arizona lawmakers imposed two voting restrictions, one that required ballots cast in the

wrong precinct to be thrown away, and the other forbidding what critics call ballot harvesting,

letting community activists and others collect ballots and bring them to the voting place.

These are fairly commonplace restrictions, but Democrats in Arizona went to court to challenge

them, saying that they had a disproportionate effect on minority voters. And because of that,

they argued, the restrictions ran afoul of what's left of the civil rights landmark, the 1965

voting rights act. And what evidence did Democrats marshal to make the claim that those two

restrictions in Arizona are racially discriminatory? So Democrats said that Black Latino and Native American

voters were about twice as likely to cast ballots in the wrong precinct, partly because

there are more frequent changes in polling locations in those kinds of neighborhoods.

And partly because they tend to move around more than white voters do.

They also said that the ban on ballot collectors disproportionately affects minority voters,

because they're more likely to be poor, older, disabled, they're less likely to have reliable

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