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A New Jersey judge refused to halt Ocean County’s investigation into dozens of Democratic and unaffiliated voters ahead of the midterms, allowing election officials to continue the GOP-led process and potentially flag voters for additional scrutiny at the polls.
New Jersey voters sued Ocean County election officials Thursday, seeking to stop a GOP-driven purge of Democratic and unaffiliated voters ahead of the November midterms.
One ICE official said there’s no requirement that the individual even has “knowledge that he or she has illegally voted, and no conviction is required.”
We’re waiting for a federal court to rule on a third prong of Trump’s voter suppression scheme — one you might not have heard much about.
Local Republicans in New Jersey — including one who was pardoned by President Donald Trump after a tax evasion conviction — allegedly targeted Democratic and unaffiliated voters for eligibility challenges while leaving Republicans in the same situation untouched.
If a tiny number of noncitizen votes compromised the integrity of New Jersey’s elections, the exponentially larger number of ballots from valid voters that were rejected due to strict interpretations of the rules — often enforced in ways that err on the side of suppression, rather than inclusion — surely did even more damage. And yet, the issue has spurred no investigations, no calls for new legislation loosening voting or counting rules, and no impassioned denunciations from lawmakers.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a new federal lawsuit against New Jersey seeking voter roll records, just two months after a judge dismissed its previous records case for lack of standing.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is threatening to sue New Jersey election officials over records tied to the state’s recent noncitizen voter registration incident, just weeks after a federal judge threw out the party’s earlier voter records lawsuit for lack of standing.
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.
As November rapidly approaches, we’re still waiting for a key question to be answered: Will President Donald Trump get a chance to impose sweeping restrictions on mail voting during the midterms? It will ultimately be up to the Supreme Court.
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