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A government watchdog sued the Trump administration, seeking to uncover records of a secretive federal initiative to identify alleged noncitizen voters — an effort that a whistleblower warned could wrongly target eligible voters.
Because of the closeness of the race, Peltola’s campaign asked the DOE for information on rejected absentee ballots.
Scott Colom is the newest Democratic senator-elect from Mississippi.
The lawsuit seeks to overturn a century-old law that capped the U.S. House of Representatives at 435 members.
Several lawsuits over Trump’s election interference schemes are ongoing, including major cases involving his anti-mail voting executive order, his push to build a national voter roll database and his demand for state citizenship lists.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court Tuesday overturned restrictions on the ballot measure process, paving the way for voters to more easily exercise their right to direct democracy. Republicans across the country have fought to restrict ballot measures, making it more difficult for voters to override the legislature. The Oklahoma Constitution allows voters to place measures on […]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) suffered the latest stinging rebuke in its fruitless quest for states’ unredacted voter rolls after a federal court in Delaware handed the Trump administration its 28th straight loss. The loss is the latest in a string of judicial rebukes to the Trump administration’s efforts to interfere with states’ constitutional authority […]
A local election official in Florida said the Republican candidate for U.S. House had won the tight race before results were called.
Pro-voting groups said the court should “order the attorneys for the United States to explain why they or their client should not be sanctioned for pursuing a frivolous appeal.”
A last-minute lawsuit demanding a hand count of every paper ballot in Texas goes far beyond anything state election law requires, Potter County said in support of a motion to dismiss the case.
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