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In a new lawsuit, Democrats are asking a federal court to block the Trump administration from threatening state and local election officials with criminal prosecution and from pressuring states to remove voters from the rolls.
Arlington County, Virginia, sued the Trump administration to stop armed federal agents from operating at and near polling places, arguing that their threatened presence at voting sites is already alarming voters just two weeks before Election Day.
The criminal statute that the DOJ is relying on to go after California officials “cannot be read as an implied grant of authority to impose an emergency ballot withholding regime,” attorneys for the state said.
Thousands of North Carolina midterm ballots are set to be rejected over minor technical issues after a federal court upheld strict new Republican-backed rules for mail voters, according to data shared exclusively with Democracy Docket.
Los Angeles County reviewed a sample of voters on the Trump administration’s list of more than 20,000 people it says are “likely noncitizens” and found that roughly one in four listed a U.S. birthplace.
Ten years before a federal judge approved North Carolina’s new measures restricting absentee ballots, he upheld a strict voter ID law over pro-voting groups’ objections. An appeals panel later reversed that ruling, describing the law as “one of the largest restrictions of the franchise in modern North Carolina history,” and finding that it targeted Black […]
Thousands of eligible voters could be disenfranchised if a federal court grants the Trump administration’s request to bar California from counting the votes of 20,000 people it accuses of being noncitizens, the state says. “At best, this litigation is a reckless political stunt. At worst, it threatens to disenfranchise thousands of Californians this election,” lawyers […]
58% of respondents agreed with the statement that Trump is “a potentially dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy.”
The DOJ’s argument comes in response to a claim from Common Cause, which previously sued to stop the administration’s broad effort to build a national voter database.
Wisconsinites begin in-person early voting Tuesday, with early reports suggesting more people are skipping mail ballots this year in a state that has no grace period for late arrivals.
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