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How has the Purcell principle been applied in recent cases?

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The Purcell principle has been applied in several recent cases, including to keep a Texas voter ID law in place in Veasey v. Perry (2014), to block an absentee ballot extension during the COVID-19 pandemic in Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee (2020), and to stop a court-ordered redistricting in Alabama in Allen v. Milligan (2022).