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In a loss for voters, a federal judge has dismissed a voting rights lawsuit challenging two Indiana laws that require certain voters to provide proof of citizenship to register, or remain registered, to vote.
An Indiana state senator who bucked President Trump’s demand for a gerrymandered congressional map in the state will likely keep his seat after the state Supreme Court Thursday declared him the victor in an extremely close primary race.
The Indiana Supreme Court is set to decide whether a Republican state senator who bucked President Donald Trump’s demand for a gerrymandered map will keep his seat in a race that’s come down to a narrow three-vote margin.
Indiana has only days left to resolve disputed ballots that will decide the winner of a state senate seat currently held by an incumbent who bucked President Donald Trump’s demands for a last-minute gerrymander before the midterms.
A dozen Republican states led by Missouri asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order attacking mail voting go into effect before the midterm elections in November.
Pro-voting groups asked a federal appeals court Monday to stop Florida, Ohio, Iowa and Indiana from using the Trump administration’s expanded SAVE database for mass voter screenings.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assured a judge in Washington, D.C., that it was shuttering a controversial citizenship database, but would make the tool available to four Republican-led states on a different judge’s orders. The paradoxical situation emerged after both federal judges issued contradictory rulings on the database, which critics say is ill-suited for voter verification and prone to flagging U.S. citizens as potential noncitizens.
A federal judge in Florida ruled that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must allow four Republican-led states to again use a federal database to search for noncitizens on their voter registration rolls. The decision conflicts with a previous ruling by a federal judge in Washington, D.C. that blocked access to the database. It will likely unspool into a tangle of competing court orders in the coming months.
Four Republican-led states want their access restored to a federal database for checking their voter registration records for noncitizens.
Indiana Democrats are calling on their state’s anti-voting Secretary of State Diego Morales (R) to recuse himself from overseeing the recount process for a close state senate primary election between a Republican incumbent and a challenger supported by President Donald Trump.
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