In the year since it came under Republican control, North Carolina’s state elections board has repeatedly made headlines for decisions that restrict or suppress the vote. But now some Republicans are also pushing back as State Auditor Dave Boliek attempts to exert control over county election boards and tell their members how to vote.
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The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a new lawsuit seeking to block certain U.S. citizens living abroad from voting in Colorado — the second such lawsuit within a week and the latest escalation in the GOP’s exploding campaign against overseas voters.
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Local election officials in Upstate New York said they were frustrated and alarmed by two federal immigration agents confronting a poll worker over a social media post at a voting site in Syracuse during the state’s primaries earlier this week.
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Washington state’s chief election official urged the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to withdraw its proposed mail ballot rule, warning that the Trump-backed proposal could worsen existing mail delays, impose new costs on local election officials and disenfranchise eligible voters.
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While appeals and stays are a normal part of civil litigation, this administration has also shown a propensity for going far beyond the usual — and some would say, ethical and legal — bounds of resisting a courtroom loss.
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Kansas Republicans are facing growing scrutiny over a potential scheme that could deny voters a say in this year’s U.S. Senate race and let GOP state lawmakers silence voters’ voices on who represents them in Washington.
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Two federal immigration agents confronted a poll worker at a voting site in Syracuse, New York, as she was helping carry out the state’s recent elections. The incident again raises the specter of federal agents interfering in active elections.
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The Brennan Center for Justice sued the Trump administration seeking records on whether the Department of Justice has created lists of voters for states to remove from the rolls — a new transparency fight over the administration’s nationwide campaign to seize sensitive voter data ahead of the midterms.
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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have implemented new mail voting restrictions, arguing the measure was not necessary and would have proved too burdensome for voters.
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Voting Rights Lab reported on voter ID affecting United States. Use the original report for details, then confirm any voter deadlines, registration requirements, or election office instructions with official sources.
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Louisiana Republicans will nominate a candidate for U.S. Senate in a primary runoff Saturday, six weeks after denying Republican U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy a shot at a third term.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Democratic lawmakers held a hearing Thursday on defending fair elections and voting rights.
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It was the second ruling in as many days against executive orders Trump has signed seeking oversight of the nation's elections.
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The Hill: A federal judge on Thursday ordered Tesla CEO Elon Musk to testify under oath in two cases where he is accused of defrauding voters in swing states before the 2024 general election. U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Hightower of…
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The Hill: Senate Republicans are scrambling for a strategy to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, a sweeping election reform bill, along with $67 billion to $350 billion in defense spending after holding a contentious meeting with…
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Axios: President Trump’s voter fraud crusade is crashing into the limits of his power ahead of November’s midterm elections. Why it matters: Trump has made cracking down on alleged mass voter fraud a priority, but his election-related executive orders are stalled…
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Election Law Blog reported on voter registration affecting United States. Use the original report for details, then confirm any voter deadlines, registration requirements, or election office instructions with official sources.
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Release: Bard College Executive Vice President and Vice President for Academic Affairs Jonathan Becker, who has been appointed Bard’s acting president beginning July 1, published “ Give Them Ballots,” an article on student voting rights in the spring…
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Election Law Blog reported on mail and early voting affecting Ohio. Use the original report for details, then confirm any voter deadlines, registration requirements, or election office instructions with official sources.
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You can find the decision, which is sure to be appealed and attract the attention of the Trump Department of Justice, at this link.
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Yesterday, HLS’s Election Law Clinic and Wilmer Hale filed this complaint alleging that the odd timing of Colorado Springs’s municipal elections (in April of odd years) causes a large racial disparity in turnout and violates the Colorado VRA. This is…
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New report from the California Voter Foundation: CVF endorses the recommendations in the report urging the state and counties to advance solutions that support faster ballot processing, given the negative impacts of the long count – as well as the…
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This is a guest post by Ruth Greenwood: Judge Davidson of the Northern District of Mississippi issued his opinion yesterday in Harris v. DeSoto County, a federal section 2 VRA claim filed by two DeSoto County voters, the…
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The decision and order in California v. Trump in Massachusetts is here. This is on the heels of a decision the other way in the District of Columbia. The Court enjoined both the creation of a “citizenship list”…
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