Yunior is a breaking news reporter from Brooklyn, New York. He earned his master’s degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where he specialized in local news and data reporting. He is passionate about civic education and engagement.
California’s top election official demanded the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) explain how it concluded that thousands of noncitizens may be registered to vote in the state, bluntly questioning both the department’s results and how it obtained California voter data.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) suffered its 18th defeat, with no wins, in its nationwide voter data crusade, when a federal judge dismissed the department’s lawsuit seeking New Jersey’s unredacted voter rolls.
Nevada’s top election official demanded that the Department of Homeland Security substantiate its claim that nearly 16,000 noncitizens are registered to vote in the state — pressing the Trump administration to explain how it produced the figure and warning that flawed data could jeopardize eligible voters.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) formally rejected the Trump administration’s demand for personal information about thousands of state residents mistakenly registered to vote, telling the Department of Justice that its request has “no legal basis.”
The Trump administration and GOP responded to New Jersey’s glitch with outrage. What happened in California should have been a much bigger scandal.
In a voting rights victory, the Kansas Court of Appeals rejected Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s (R) emergency bid to reinstate a rule that could have thrown out lawfully cast mail ballots.
Records reviewed by Democracy Docket reveal no consistent standard used by DOJ for deciding which states have met the department’s demands and which should be sued.
California rejected nearly 150,000 mail-in ballots in its June primary, exposing how votes can still go uncounted even in a state with some of the nation’s strongest voter protections.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice appealed its latest batch of defeats Thursday, expanding its nationwide campaign for private voter data into eight federal appeals courts despite losing all 17 district court rulings to date.
Trump-endorsed election denier Andy Biggs won Arizona’s Republican primary for governor, advancing to a November contest that could determine whether one of the country’s most important battleground states continues resisting President Donald Trump’s attacks on elections.