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The Republican chairman of the House’s elections oversight committee recently revealed he would soon introduce legislation to ban states from counting mail-in ballots that were sent by Election Day but arrive after.
Louisiana Republicans enacted a law delaying next year’s elections ahead of a looming U.S. Supreme Court decision that could upend the state’s congressional map by weakening the Voting Rights Act’s protections for minority voters.
An Ohio Senator called the resulting bill “an atrocious piece of legislation that will disenfranchise tens of thousands of Ohioans.”
The DOJ threatened Ohio with “costly litigation” unless it bans the counting of ballots that arrive after Election Day.
North Carolina voters are once again asking a federal court to step in after Republican lawmakers pushed through what they call an “unnecessary, mid-decade redistricting” that dismantles long-standing Black opportunity districts.
A federal judge in Texas dismissed a GOP lawsuit against California’s new congressional redistricting plan, ruling that the Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), had no right to sue over another state’s election laws.
North Carolina moved closer Tuesday to dismantling a historically Black congressional district in a move one of its former representatives described as “blatant discrimination.”
A coalition of pro-voting groups is suing Indiana over two new anti-voting laws they say unfairly target naturalized citizens and threaten to remove eligible voters from the rolls.
Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 (SB 202) has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state.
President Donald Trump publicly endorsed the North Carolina GOP’s latest congressional gerrymander Friday, celebrating a proposed map that would secure Republicans an additional U.S. House seat in 2026 — by further eroding fair representation for Black and Democratic voters. “Thank you to North Carolina’s incredible Republican State Legislators, who just introduced a new, fair, and […]
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