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The series of resignations serves as a stark reminder of how Trump has directed enormous federal resources to proving 2020 election conspiracies — and has come up empty.
The Justice Department has no right to Georgia’s unredacted statewide voter registration list, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, delivering the department’s 26th straight loss in its effort to obtain sensitive voting records.
Whoever gets the most write-in votes will win the statehouse seat in November.
With Texans facing more than their share of potential hurdles in this year’s midterm elections, pro-voting groups are hard at work preparing to back them up at the polls.
A Republican lawyer challenging a Nebraska law allowing U.S. citizens living abroad to vote in the state told a court Wednesday that the right to vote is “precious” — and that’s why it should be denied to other American citizens.
Three South Carolina provisions restricting voter assistance will remain in effect for the midterms, a district court ruled Wednesday. The decision could affect the nearly 15% of South Carolinians who identify as having a disability. The court ruled the plaintiffs — South Carolina NAACP and three voters with disabilities — lacked standing to bring claims […]
If a tiny number of noncitizen votes compromised the integrity of New Jersey’s elections, the exponentially larger number of ballots from valid voters that were rejected due to strict interpretations of the rules — often enforced in ways that err on the side of suppression, rather than inclusion — surely did even more damage. And yet, the issue has spurred no investigations, no calls for new legislation loosening voting or counting rules, and no impassioned denunciations from lawmakers.
With the midterm elections just over a month away, Senate Republicans tried to score a few final political points before leaving Washington, forcing a vote on a congressional stock-trading ban that included an unrelated voter ID requirement.
CREW said the administration’s violating an open records law by failing to hand over its methodology on Trump’s claim that 278,000 noncitizens were registered to vote in federal elections.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge brought by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that could determine if state judges can extend polling hours after election-day disruptions threaten voting access — a potentially significant ruling for future elections in the perennial battleground state.
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