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President Donald Trump launched his latest attack on voting last night when he ousted the three remaining commissioners of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). The defenestration leaves the bipartisan and mostly advisory federal agency, which was created to help states administer elections, without leadership just months before the 2026 midterm elections. But while the […]
Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar (D), the state’s top election official and chair of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State, told Democracy Docket the DOJ’s latest letters are not about election integrity — they are about intimidation.
Without four commissioners leading the agency, it leaves states with a huge resource gap as they prepare for the midterm elections.
President Trump Thursday dismissed all remaining commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission, a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections.
In sending election monitors to states as part of Trump’s crackdown on voting, the DOJ is attempting to exercise a power conservatives have tried to curtail for years.
Election monitoring is one of the latest GOP-led tactics to intimidate voters. But it’s not as new in Georgia. The far-right majority Georgia State Election Board has had its eyes on Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) since at least May when it filed a petition that sought to force Raffensperger to allow poll watchers […]
Now, new research indicates that state voter registration lists — a common administration target — are actually accurate and up to date. And both blue and red states are largely doing a good job maintaining their lists.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has denied the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) request to pause her order shutting down use of its modified Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system to certify registered voters’ citizenship status. In a blistering 23-page opinion Wednesday, District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan berated the federal government’s attorneys for […]
The White House’s attempts to seize control over elections have suffered a series of courtroom drubbings in recent weeks as judges — including many of his own appointees — have consistently blocked them for violating federal laws or the U.S. Constitution. So the Trump administration is adopting a new strategy, turning to intimidation and coercion after legal bullying has mostly failed.
The Arizona Supreme Court has given Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap, an election skeptic who has pushed conspiracy theories about voting in the state, increased authority to shape elections in the county.
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