Paige was a staff writer at Democracy Docket. Depending on who you ask, she is from western North Carolina or western Pennsylvania — they’re the same mountains and both home. Outside of voting rights, she is passionate about reproductive justice, geology and bluegrass. Prior to Democracy Docket, she was at the Democratic Party of Wisconsin in voter protection.
After yearslong litigation, a state Supreme Court flip and a decision reversal, North Carolina Republicans unveiled new congressional and legislative drafts as well as a county board of commissioners map this afternoon.
On Saturday, Oct. 14, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) won the state’s election for governor, defeating a handful of other candidates.
On Thursday, Oct. 12, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) and fellow Republicans indicated that they would walk back their impeachment crusade against liberal state Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz.
On Tuesday, Oct. 10, Kari Lake, a defeated far-right Arizona gubernatorial candidate and unabashed election denier, announced her run for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate.
This morning, at 10 a.m. EDT, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a South Carolina redistricting lawsuit — Alexander v. South Carolina NAACP — after the state’s Republican legislators appealed a three-judge panel’s decision to strike down the 1st Congressional District.
On Tuesday, Oct. 10, with its new veto-proof supermajority, the Republican-controlled North Carolina Legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of two voting and election laws, Senate Bill 747 and Senate Bill 749.
In just under a month, Pennsylvanians will vote in the state Supreme Court race, choosing either Democrat Judge Daniel McCaffery or Republican Judge Carolyn Carluccio. Find out why the race matters.
On Tuesday, Oct. 3, Republicans on the Wisconsin state Senate’s elections committee voted along party lines against confirming Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ (D) appointment of Joseph Czarnezki, a former Milwaukee County clerk and former Democratic state Senator, to the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC).
On Thursday, Sept. 21, the New York attorney general’s office sent a cease-and-desist letter to the group NY Citizens Audit, which is accused of confronting voters at their homes while impersonating state election officials and falsely accusing people of committing voter fraud.
On Monday, Sept. 25, the first of three public hearings will be held as lawmakers begin another round of redistricting in North Carolina.