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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.
A group of 25 states and Washington, D.C. is suing the Trump administration, accusing federal officials of leveraging billions of dollars in federal disaster grant funding in an attempt to coerce states into implementing the president’s anti-voting agenda.
A federal judge rejected an attempt by the Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) to rush into a GOP-backed lawsuit seeking more aggressive voter purges in California.
The Department of Justice wants to intervene in a lawsuit to force a massive voter roll purge in California. Tom Fitton, the president of the far-right legal group Judicial Watch, boasted on social media Wednesday that the DOJ seeks to “clean nearly 1 million dirty voter names from California’s voter rolls” after the department filed […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will introduce new legislation making ballot seizure before they are counted and certified by a state or county official a felony. In a July 4 recorded speech, Newsom was not shy about who the law targets. “We will not be his victims,” Newsom said. “We will be the wall he […]
President Donald Trump’s anti-voting agenda had already hit some major legal roadblocks over the last year. But this may have been its worst week yet in the courts.
President Donald Trump said he directed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to probe California elections as early results showed his preferred candidate trailing in the state’s recent gubernatorial primary. Tuesday’s admission, which Trump made at a political rally in Macungie, Pennsylvania, is the clearest evidence yet of Trump’s weaponization of the department to interfere in […]
California’s Democratic leadership has filed suit against a Republican-leaning county that recently approved an eyebrow-raising slate of extreme anti-voting policies.
As the midterms get closer, President Donald Trump and his allies are kicking their efforts to suppress voting into high gear.
President Donald Trump and the GOP are falsely claiming fraud over mail ballots in California’s primary. The lies are aimed at setting the stage to undermine this fall’s crucial midterms, when control of the House could hinge on the Golden State.
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