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Cases in Wisconsin and California regarding voting rights for people with disabilities, especially blind voters, both have hearings coming up on June 24. As the 2024 election approaches, disability rights and pro-voting groups are pushing for people to have access to electronic absentee voting.
Pennsylvania voter Phyllis Sprague, 80, went more than 50 years without missing a presidential election.
The far-right legal organization Judicial Watch has emerged as one of the biggest disseminators of voting misinformation thanks to its election lawsuits and its president, Tom Fitton.
In the harrowing days after the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in which rioters attempted to block the peaceful transfer of power, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s house was photographed with a troubling symbol. Like his flag, Sam Alito has an upside down vision of democracy.
United Sovereign Americans is trying to disrupt the 2024 election through a series of anti-voting lawsuits and building a grassroots movement of volunteers radicalized to believe there’s mass fraud in the elections system.
When voters cast their ballots this fall in South Carolina and Louisiana, they’ll be voting with congressional maps deemed unlawful by federal courts.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a right-wing legal group, has filed lawsuits in numerous states to try to gain access to their voter registration records ahead of the 2024 election.
May is a very busy month for election-related litigation in Arizona, with several other lawsuits set to have pivotal hearings that could be consequential for the state’s elections — especially if they were to make it all the way to the state Supreme Court.
The nation’s most conservative federal appeals court is slated to rehear two redistricting cases, which could determine where and for whom minority voters in a Texas county can cast their ballots and whether a decadesold consent decree in Louisiana will continue.
The Arizona Free Enterprise Club has filed three high-profiled lawsuits seeking to thwart various aspects of how voting and elections are run in Arizona.
