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A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s request for a temporary restraining order that would have forced California to set aside and not count ballots from 20,000 people the Department of Justice alleges may be noncitizens. U.S. District Judge David Carter’s decision came one day after a high-profile hearing in Los Angeles Tuesday […]
Washington election officials announced a preliminary review of a federal list of more than 400 alleged noncitizen voters has already uncovered U.S. citizens, inactive voters and people who are not currently registered.
A Texas county Republican Party is asking a federal court to stop certification of the state’s upcoming election results unless officials first hand count every paper ballot in the state.
The Cobb County, Ga. elections office will send absentee ballots via priority express mail to voters who never received them despite applying weeks ago.
The letters the Department of Justice (DOJ) sent to states claiming to have identified thousands of alleged illegal voters on their rolls and threatening legal action have no real effect, the Trump administration argued in a bid to block an election interference lawsuit filed by Democrats*. Democrats are asking a federal judge in Washington, D.C., […]
The Trump administration has offered few specifics on how it created the list of alleged noncitizens on California’s voter rolls, which is at the center of its lawsuit against the state. But the list appears to stem from a flawed process recently disclosed by a federal whistleblower, court filings suggest.
The Trump administration has issued more than 100 subpoenas seeking voter records across at least 13 states, including demands directed at state and local election officials in Philadelphia, Massachusetts, California, Minnesota and Washington state, according to a new Reuters investigation.
Winning in court may not be the prime goal of DOJ’s extraordinary lawsuit.
“Their apparent goal was to cast doubt on one or more Minnesota election laws that have been in force for over fifty years,” Minnesota’s secretary of state said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted Tuesday that he will act “by the book” when swearing in members of Congress following the midterms.
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