Democrats shift voting habits amid Trump war on mail ballots, data finds
President Donald Trump’s unforgiving attacks on mail voting may be impacting how Democrats approach midterm voting.
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RNC, state GOP rush to defend North Carolina’s last-minute mail ballot restrictions
State and national Republicans are thrusting themselves into a federal lawsuit challenging restrictive mail ballot rules in North Carolina.
Republicans sue for more poll watchers in key Michigan city
The effort could be a sign that the GOP plans to try to inject chaos into Michigan’s voting or counting process, as it did in 2020.
Trump’s taxpayer-funded propaganda ads draw third lawsuit
It’s the third lawsuit filed in response to the campaign-style ads, seemingly created to boost GOP candidates as the party registers historically low ratings.
Election deniers say an obscure rule on Wi-Fi routers means Trump can decide how votes are counted. Here’s why they’re wrong
The convoluted plan rests on a dubious legal theory: that a little-used Commerce Department regulation on “Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain” that mostly covers Wi-Fi routers and antivirus apps actually authorizes Lutnick to order sweeping changes to voting machine systems and mandate hand counts of ballots across the country.
Judge rebukes Trump administration for perverting pro-voting mission of DOJ’s ‘crown jewel’
The Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump has turned its Civil Rights Division’s mission on its head, a federal judge said in a decision blocking the administration from demanding states’ unredacted voter rolls. District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan, a Biden appointee who previously served as the division’s principal deputy assistant attorney general, […]
Federal judge shuts down Trump DOJ’s nationwide voter roll crusade, even in states that cooperated
In a major ruling, a federal judge struck down the Trump administration’s nationwide voter roll campaign, delivering a damaging blow to the Department of Justice’s effort to obtain states’ unredacted voter rolls, compare them against federal data and pressure states to remove voters it deems ineligible.
Despite Trump’s efforts to kneecap it, a key federal election agency is still at work
When President Donald Trump in July fired the independent commissioners responsible for assisting states with elections, experts feared the move would defang the federal agency. But since then, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) has managed to maintain much of its core elections work despite the Trump administration’s attacks.
Missouri offered to let DOJ inspect its unredacted voter rolls
Missouri refused to give the Trump administration a copy of its unredacted voter rolls containing sensitive personal information. Instead, according to newly released records obtained by Democracy Forward, the state offered Department of Justice officials something more unusual: the chance to take a look in-person.
ICE sued for records of its plans for Election Day
The lawsuit comes on the heels of a new report showing how the Department of Homeland Security has been laying the groundwork to exert control over voting.
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