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The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) — a conservative legal group known for promoting voter roll purges — is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to force Hawaii to hand over its statewide voter file.
The case is just the latest lawsuit the RNC has filed in recent years to gain access to state voter rolls.
This week, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) broke new ground in its dangerous campaign to take control of elections and promote baseless conspiracy theories about voting. And we tracked them every step of the way.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Colorado and Hawaii Thursday in the latest lawsuits by the administration seeking to force states to hand over their unredacted voter rolls.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed suit Tuesday accusing Hawaii’s Office of Elections and its chief election officer, Scott Nago (D), of unlawfully refusing to release public records about how the state maintains its voter registration lists.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld laws that prevent former Hawaii residents who live in certain U.S. territories from voting absentee in federal elections.
After finding that some of their claims are not yet ripe, a federal court has partially dismissed a right-wing group’s attempt to gain access to Hawaii’s voter rolls.
U.S. citizens who live in a foreign country can vote in federal elections, but former Hawaii residents who live in Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands or American Samoa cannot. A lawsuit challenging this reality will be heard by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today.
On Wednesday, Oct. 26, Reuters released a new poll showing that more than 40% of voters are worried about threats of violence or voter intimidation at polling places in the upcoming midterm elections.
On Tuesday, Sept. 6, a federal judge ruled that U.S. citizens who formerly lived in Hawaii are not permitted to vote absentee in federal elections if they moved to certain U.S. territories.
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