( July 9, 2026, 9:57 AM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — A divided Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed dismissal of the federal government’s suit seeking to compel Michigan to produce its unredacted statewide voter registration database, holding that the file falls outside the Civil Rights Act’s election records provisions because it is a state-created database rather than a record received from an outside source and because the government’s demand letters did not include a required basis or purpose....