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When Chad Bianco, the sheriff of California’s Riverside County, seized more than 650,000 ballots from the state’s 2025 redistricting referendum, it raised some big questions.
A state appellate court has denied a petition from the California Attorney General’s office seeking to stop a Republican sheriff from conducting an “amateur” recount of ballots in last year’s redistricting referendum election. But the fight is far from over.
The California Attorney General’s office has asked a court to immediately pause a Republican county sheriff’s investigation into last year’s redistricting referendum election, arguing his seizure of more than 650,000 ballots “threatens to create a dangerous precedent.”
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.
Efforts to oppose a Trump-backed gerrymander in Missouri cleared a major milestone Monday, when pro-voting activists announced that they had logged enough signatures to put the new pro-GOP congressional map to a statewide vote.
Following oral arguments in Watson v. Republican National Committee (RNC) Monday, the fate of mail-in ballot grace periods remains unclear as the U.S.Supreme Court justices split on the case’s central question: When is a vote actually made — when a voter casts a ballot or when election officials receive it?
The case is squarely part of the broader GOP effort, led by President Donald Trump, to restrict mail voting, out of a belief that it helps Democrats.
The question boils down to: When does someone vote? Is it when the ballot is submitted — whether placed in a drop box or a mailbox — or is it when it’s received by election officials?
The Arizona Senate released the grand jury subpoena for the recently opened FBI probe into Maricopa County’s 2020 election results Friday night. It sheds further light on what the Trump administration is seeking in its investigation, which is part of a broader campaign for a federal takeover of elections. The March 5 subpoena, issued to […]
The special agent behind the FBI’s unprecedented seizure of 2020 election materials from Fulton County, Georgia, may soon be forced to testify about the raid.
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