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Nevada’s top election official demanded that the Department of Homeland Security substantiate its claim that nearly 16,000 noncitizens are registered to vote in the state — pressing the Trump administration to explain how it produced the figure and warning that flawed data could jeopardize eligible voters.
A dozen Republican states led by Missouri asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order attacking mail voting go into effect before the midterm elections in November.
A federal appeals court is letting the Trump administration continue implementing President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order. The ruling Tuesday comes a day after the administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a block on implementing the order in 23 Democratic-led states and Washington, D.C. upheld in a separate case.
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to allow President Donald Trump’s sweeping attack on mail voting to go into effect before the upcoming midterms.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) wants the senate to skip its upcoming recess in hopes of passing the anti-voting SAVE America Act.
Trump’s plan to wrest control of elections from states was thwarted as a federal appeals court declined to lift a block on his anti-mail voting executive order.
California rejected nearly 150,000 mail-in ballots in its June primary, exposing how votes can still go uncounted even in a state with some of the nation’s strongest voter protections.
Alaska recently removed thousands from its active voter lists after they were flagged as noncitizens. But a state news outlet found some were eligible to vote.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice appealed its latest batch of defeats Thursday, expanding its nationwide campaign for private voter data into eight federal appeals courts despite losing all 17 district court rulings to date.
In her order Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani called the order “unconstitutional” and said that, if allowed to stand, “disenfranchisement as to the upcoming election is plausibly likely and imminent.”
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