California is the new ground zero for free and fair elections

Trump's obsession with California's elections is neither entirely new nor surprising.

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States to get citizenship lists before voters can check for errors, new memo on Trump’s anti-voting order makes clear

The first phase of President Donald Trump’s executive order to build a national voter list is expected to be implemented by June 30, according to a recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo.

Trump’s ‘flagrantly unconstitutional’ order attacking mail voting is already being implemented and must be blocked now, new filing alleges

“No one really disagrees” that President Donald Trump’s recent mail ballot executive order calling for the creation of federal voter registration lists “is flagrantly unlawful,” Democrats argued Wednesday in a filing asking a federal appellate court…

Right-wing legal group sues to obtain Oklahoma’s voter rolls

A conservative legal group with a long record of promoting voter roll purges sued Oklahoma, demanding access to its voter registration list just months after the state agreed to hand over sensitive voter data to the…