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Out of thousands of lawsuits currently seeking the Court’s review, Democracy Docket’s Research Team has identified five voting rights and elections cases we’ll be looking out for.
Voters in Pennsylvania have begun casting ballots in the 2026 general election, and they’re doing it under a federal microscope.
“We’re glad that the Supreme Court did what was right, but there was also a period where real damage was done in the space of voter confusion, with people losing faith in the process,” said Ben Hovland, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former commissioner of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, at a press briefing Tuesday.
Democracy Docket was created to track the legal battles over voting rights more closely than any other news outlet — offering up-to-the-minute information on where things stand for Americans’ access to the ballot.
The Department of Homeland Security privately confessed that it lacked “high confidence” in its claim that more than 14,000 noncitizens were improperly registered to vote in Pennsylvania, according to a new letter from the state’s top election official.
Presler’s efforts to influence voters in a high-stakes Pennsylvania Supreme Court retention election last year may have violated campaign finance laws, according to Public Citizen.
After falsely claiming Trump won the 2020 election to get his support, PA GOP governor nominee Garrity now says he lost and thinks “we should look forward.”
Heather Honey, a Dept. of Homeland Security elections official, received nearly $200,00 from an election denier fund for consulting services.
Pennsylvania’s top election official, a Republican, rebuffed the Trump administration’s claim that nearly 15,000 noncitizens could be registered to vote in the commonwealth, demanding it explain how that estimate was calculated.
The Department of Justice appealed three more voter roll losses, ensuring that every defeat in President Donald Trump’s nationwide campaign to obtain unredacted state voter data is now in or headed to the federal appeals courts.
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