The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.

The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.

At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docke...

The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.