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A federal judge on Friday struck down part of a 2023 state elections law that placed restrictions on what are known as third party voter-registration organizations, saying the law discriminated against noncitizens regardless of immigration status. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker issued a summary judgment on part of the law that would prevent non-U.S. citizens from collecting or handling voter-registration applications. In July, he issued a preliminary injunction against that part of the law and another restriction that would make it a felony for voter-registration group workers to ke