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Early voting starts this week across Colorado, where an election denier is running to oversee state elections as voters weigh a Republican-backed attempt to heighten ID requirements for casting a ballot.
“We’re glad that the Supreme Court did what was right, but there was also a period where real damage was done in the space of voter confusion, with people losing faith in the process,” said Ben Hovland, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former commissioner of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, at a press briefing Tuesday.
It aims to counter what one group calls “an intentional climate of fear and intimidation,” that threatens to chill participation among minority voters.
More than 51 million mail ballots will be sent to voters in the coming weeks just from the District of Columbia and the two dozen states that are challenging the Trump administration’s 11th-hour attack on mail voting.
The League of Women Voters of Colorado says the initiative is “a form of voter suppression” and is urging people to oppose it.
A federal appeals court is giving pro-voters a second chance to prove a Colorado “election integrity” group unlawfully intimidated voters.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice appealed yet another round of defeats in its nationwide campaign to obtain states’ unredacted voter rolls, as its district court record now stands at 0 for 23.
It may still feel like mid summer — but we’re into the final stretch before a set of contests that could help determine the fate of our democracy.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is zero for 20 in its lawsuits seeking to obtain state voter rolls, after a federal judge dismissed its case against Colorado Monday.
Polis went against his own 11-person clemency advisory board, which twice voted unanimously against recommending clemency for Peters.
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