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The U.S. Department of Justice sued six more states this week in its escalating effort to force election officials to hand over unredacted voter information. State election leaders say the DOJ’s sweeping demand for voters’ names, addresses, birth dates and identification numbers threatens their personal privacy, state sovereignty and the security of U.S. elections.
The Justice Department launched a new wave of lawsuits against six more Democratic-led states Tuesday — escalating a federal effort to seize unredacted information from millions of voters.
The top election officials in 10 states are banding together to push back against the Trump administration’s demands for voter registration records, sending a joint letter Tuesday to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Justice (DOJ) asking the federal government to clear up the contradictory statements the agencies have made over the data’s use.
The White House briefed state election officials on a revamped citizenship verification system Tuesday, selling them on an untested solution for a nearly nonexistent problem. Attended by a bipartisan group of more than a dozen secretaries of state and other election administrators, the briefing was led by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) Director Joseph […]
A Vermont judge dismissed a lawsuit last week from a right-wing group challenging a Burlington law allowing noncitizen voting in local elections.
Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE), a right-wing group, filed a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of two voters challenging a provision in the Burlington, Vermont law that allows noncitizens to vote in local elections.
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) allowed a bill banning people from bringing guns into or near polling places to become law on Tuesday.
A Nebraska bill that restores voting rights to people with felony convictions after they’ve completed their sentence has become law in the state, but without the governor’s signature.
Noncitizens hoping to be enfranchised faced a mixed bag of results in Maryland elections this week, with two cities voting opposite ways on measures that would make progress on the issue.
On Tuesday, March 7, voters in Burlington, Vermont, the state’s largest city, approved an amendment to their city charter that would allow some noncitizens to vote in local elections.
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