In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court significantly weakened the Voting Rights Act (VRA), the landmark civil rights law that restricted racial gerrymandering and racial discrimination in voting for more than fifty years.
U.S. elections, already safe and secure, could be all the more so with improved data formatting interoperability, updated voting system guidelines and signature verification software, the state and local election officials gathered seemed to agree. But that would require Congress to act, they said.
The U.S. Supreme Court sewed up the loose ends of its earlier 6-3 decision to allow Texas’s mid-decade congressional redistricting Monday, issuing a summary reversal of a trial court’s ruling blocking the map.
The month-long battle to pass the SAVE America Act ended with a whimper early Thursday morning, as the Senate — including three Republicans — voted against adding the extreme voter suppression legislation to the filibuster-proof reconciliation bill.
Virginia adopted a amendment to the Commonwealth’s constitution Tuesday night allowing the state legislature to redraw the congressional map and swing up to four House of Representatives seats to Democrats — if the courts don’t step in to block the plan after the voters have spoken.
Republican attorneys general from a dozen states moved to help the White House defend President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting Tuesday.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) lost again Friday, as a federal judge dismissed its lawsuit to force Rhode Island to provide unfettered access to its voter registration rolls, bringing the agency’s record among active cases to five defeats, zero wins and 25 cases still pending.
At a House Administration Committee hearing Thursday, Republicans repeatedly raised hypothetical specters of coordinated voter fraud while state election officials gently reiterated, again and again, that elections and voter registration rolls are already safe, secure, and accurate.
Along with Trump’s recent attempt to restrict mail voting via executive order, the SAVE America Act’s burdens would fall hardest on remote, rural communities that rely heavily on online and mail-in registration.
A federal judge dismissed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit demanding Massachusetts’ unredacted voter registration rolls Thursday, marking the fifth loss for the agency, with zero wins, out of 30 active cases.