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A Florida lawyer who previously pleaded guilty to illegally accessing election websites monitored the primary election in Maricopa County, Arizona for the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to records viewed by Democracy Docket.
“They don’t want to know that things are going well, because it goes against a narrative that is being pounded relentlessly of mass fraud or ineligible people voting,” Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson told Utah News Dispatch.
An unusual ruling in Florida last week — in a case that is part of the Trump administration’s bid to spread fear about noncitizen voting — could raise questions about the constitutionality of the sweeping voter suppression measure being pushed by the president. U.S. District Judge David S. Leibowitz last Thursday dismissed a criminal case […]
Early voting starts Tuesday across Ohio, where multiple election-denying candidates are vying for office as voters weigh a voter-ID constitutional amendment.
A federal court Friday struck down a California rule that required voters to return mail ballots by paper and without assistance from others.
If President Trump creates state-by-state lists of people eligible to vote in federal elections, millions of recent movers could face disenfranchisement right before the midterms.
The NAACP sued the Trump administration Friday, seeking records about its plan to deploy roughly 1,000 federal personnel to polling places during the 2026 midterms.
Trump praised Brazil’s elections in a post late Tuesday, despite the country conducting elections with electronic voting machines, a practice he has claimed is rife with fraud.
But the judge also barred the state from enforcing a directive that prohibits New Hampshire election officials from accepting a student ID as a valid form of identification to vote.
The Supreme Court sent two redistricting cases out of Washington back to a lower court for new proceedings in light of its Louisiana v. Callais decision, which gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.