Since filing its lawsuit against California last week, the Trump administration has frequently shifted the language it has used to describe the more than 20,000 people it wants the state to block from voting.
California argues that the premise of the DOJ’s lawsuit lies entirely on “a chain of possibilities,” rather than evidence of unlawful voting.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is considering filing lawsuits against additional states before or after the midterms as part of its effort to force states to investigate alleged noncitizens on their voter rolls.
The Trump administration’s attempt to force California to block over 20,000 alleged noncitizen voters has been assigned to the same federal judge who earlier this year rejected the Department of Justice’s effort to obtain the state’s unredacted voter rolls
Now, with Election Day fast approaching and polling predicting a shellacking for the GOP, some legal and political analysts worry that Trump may attempt to enlist Republicans in Congress to launch what would amount to a bloodless coup: refusing to seat victorious Democrats in order to maintain the GOP’s House majority.
According to an analysis by the ACLU of South Carolina, the polling site consolidations affect over 61% of the Black voting population in Clarendon County.
An Alaska Superior Court judge has allowed a lawsuit challenging election officials’ decision to hand over the state’s voter rolls to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to go forward, saying the Division of Elections may have violated voters’ right to privacy.
New data shows that the new rules for counting absentee ballots are leading to much higher rejection rates than in the past.
In a new lawsuit, Democrats are asking a federal court to block the Trump administration from threatening state and local election officials with criminal prosecution and from pressuring states to remove voters from the rolls.
Arlington County, Virginia, sued the Trump administration to stop armed federal agents from operating at and near polling places, arguing that their threatened presence at voting sites is already alarming voters just two weeks before Election Day.