Fredreka Schouten for CNN:

A nonprofit group tied to influential conservatives who worked closely with President Donald Trump to elevate two Supreme Court justices is urging key states to clean up their voting rolls — a practice voting-rights groups and Democrats argue seeks to “purge” legitimate voters.

The Honest Elections Project, as the group is known, is supporting a lawsuit against Michigan — where Trump won in 2016 by fewer than 11,000 votes — that claims the state has an “impossibly high” high voter registration rate.

Lawyers working with Honest Elections also have sent letters this year threatening legal action over what it views as bloated voter registration rolls to officials in three other political battlegrounds: North Carolina, Florida and Colorado.Work by the group, led by former Heritage Foundation policy analyst Jason Snead, is part of the stepped-up activity among conservative groups to push back on efforts, largely in Democratic-run states, to expand mail-in voting, extend deadlines for counting mailed ballots and otherwise relax voting rules amid the coronavirus pandemic…

Honest Elections, which began its work earlier this year, is part of a network established by Federalist Society co-chairman Leonard Leo and the conservative allies who have helped Trump advance the appointment of conservative judges to the federal bench, public records analyzed by nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics and The Guardian show.