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“Their apparent goal was to cast doubt on one or more Minnesota election laws that have been in force for over fifty years,” Minnesota’s secretary of state said.
Federal agents raided Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington-area home Monday, just 22 days before the Minnesota Democrat faces reelection. The extraordinary move against a sitting member of Congress drew scrutiny over the Trump administration’s departure from longstanding Department of Justice (DOJ) guidance meant to prevent federal law enforcement from influencing elections.
Voting rights groups are citing recent ICE activity near voting sites and new evidence of intimidation as they expand a lawsuit seeking to keep armed federal agents away from polling places during the midterm elections.
Early voting in Minnesota could be more challenging this year — starting with how some voters will check in. One county will use pen and paper to manually check in tens of thousands of voters.
A Minnesota Supreme Court justice raised concerns during oral argument Tuesday that one city’s request to use paper poll books rather than electronic records could disenfranchise thousands of voters.
A federal appeals court dismissed a conservative legal group’s challenge to Minnesota’s exemption from the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), ruling that the group lacked standing to sue.
As President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) ramps up its campaign to interfere in the midterms, no news outlet is keeping a closer eye on its plans than Democracy Docket.
Critics alleged ICE could use Thomson Reuters’ CLEAR database in an attempt to verify false allegations of voter fraud by noncitizens.
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.
Minneapolis must find hundreds of Republican election judges before early voting for the midterms opens in October or possibly close some early polling sites altogether following a state Supreme Court decision.
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