Ohio early voting starts today. Here’s what we’re watching
Early voting starts Tuesday across Ohio, where multiple election-denying candidates are vying for office as voters weigh a voter-ID constitutional amendment.
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A few noncitizen votes are a scandal. But thousands of rejected ballots are business as usual
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.
This week at Democracy Docket: The Supreme Court boosted Trump’s voter suppression. Legacy media shrugged
The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. And plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision’s importance.
Appeals court greenlights Ohio GOP’s voter registration proof of citizenship requirement for midterms
A federal appeals court lifted a lower-court ruling that blocked a new Republican-backed state law requiring documentary proof of citizenship when people register to vote while applying for a driver’s license.
Ohio asks 6th Circuit to lift pause on new voter registration restrictions
Ohio asked the 6th Circuit to pause a lower court ruling that blocked a state law requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
Court refuses to reinstate Ohio GOP’s voting restriction during appeal
In a win for voters, a federal judge Wednesday refused to let Ohio election officials enforce the state’s proof-of-citizenship voter registration law while the state appeals an earlier ruling blocking the restriction. The decision keeps the law unenforceable as a key registration deadline approaches. U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. denied Ohio officials’ request to […]
Federal court blocks Ohio law requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration
A federal court has blocked for now an Ohio law that makes voting more difficult by requiring residents to provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
Voters spared as Senate recesses without passing SAVE America Act’s voter ID measure
The failed bill, which required a narrow set of photo IDs for voter eligibility, could have prevented millions of people from voting in November’s midterms.
Voting rights groups seek to shut down voter purge database in four GOP-led states
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.
DHS relaunches voter purge database in 4 red states
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.
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