Hansi Luong

Eligible voters in Georgia and Kentucky who want to cast ballots in the May 19th primaries have until Monday to register.

West Virginia's registration deadline for its May 12th primary is on Tuesday, and there's still about a week left to register online for Louisiana's primary and to sign up online by mail or in person for the primary in Oregon.

Virginia is holding a special election for a congressional redistricting referendum on Tuesday, and eligible Virginians who have not registered yet can still do so in person at an early voting location or their polling site on Tuesday.

If you've already registered to vote, you may want to check your status on your state election official's website.

Eligible voters can sometimes be removed from lists, especially if they move, change their name, or haven't voted in a while.

Hansi Lewong, NPR News.

It's not clear when the Supreme Court will issue its decision in a closely watched redistricting case out of Louisiana.

But after the justices held a rare second hearing for the case in October, some court watchers say the court's conservative majority may soon issue a ruling that weakens the Voting Rights Act's protections against voting districts that dilute the power of racial minorities.

That could lead to Republican-led states, particularly in the South, undoing districts where Black voters have a realistic opportunity of liking their preferred candidates, who are usually Democrats.

But congressional maps for next year's midterms have to be finalized before a state's filing deadline for candidates running in the primary.

And those deadlines are coming up in December for Mississippi, in January for Alabama, and in February for Louisiana.

Anzi Luong, NPR News.

A final decision from the Supreme Court may come as soon as Monday.

If the court allows Texas to use the contested map for the midterm election, Republicans may be able to pick up five more seats in the U.S.

House.

A lower court had blocked that map after finding its challengers are likely to prove in a trial that the map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

That's because multiple top Republican officials made public statements suggesting they passed it to eliminate existing districts where Black and Latino voters together make up the majority.

But Texas tells the Supreme Court the lawmakers were not motivated by race and were focused on drawing new districts that are more likely to elect Republicans.

Time is running out to finalize Texas' map for the midterms.

The state's candidate filing deadline is about two weeks away.