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Washington state’s chief election official urged the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to withdraw its proposed mail ballot rule, warning that the Trump-backed proposal could worsen existing mail delays, impose new costs on local election officials and disenfranchise eligible voters.
In the weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority dismembered the Voting Rights Act through its landmark Louisiana v. Callais ruling, Republicans have raced to pass new gerrymandered congressional maps that eliminate Black political representation across the South.
We’ve been paying even closer attention than usual this week to Harmeet Dhillon, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights division chief who, reports suggest, could soon be in line for a promotion.
As President Donald Trump and his administration escalate threats to interfere in this year’s midterms, at least 11 states led by Democrats are taking steps to harden their elections against White House meddling.
The anti-democracy onslaught continues apace. And we’re keeping you up to date on all of it.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has once again tripped over the basics of litigation in its relentless quest for state voter registration records, blowing a deadline to properly serve Washington’s secretary of state with its lawsuit.
This was the week when MAGA Republicans finally got what they’d been demanding for so long: A full Senate debate on the SAVE America Act, President Donald Trump’s monster voter suppression bill.
The Trump administration’s crusade for voter rolls hit another snag in Washington state after the Department of Justice (DOJ) fumbled basic legal procedures.
The federal government has now filed lawsuits against 21 states, plus D.C., demanding registrants’ unredacted private information — including driver license numbers, social security numbers and dates of birth — in a campaign decried by local officials and legal experts as an unconstitutional attack on states’ authority to run elections and an illegal attempt to create an unprecedented national voter database.
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.
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