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In a 4-1 ruling, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court blocked enforcement of a law requiring election officials to reject otherwise valid mail-in ballots with missing or incorrect handwritten dates on their outer return envelopes.
The nation’s most conservative appeals court ruled that Louisiana can dissolve a 1992 consent decree that was established to ensure fair representation on the state Supreme Court.
In a 4-3 ruling, the Michigan Supreme Court’s Democratic-appointed justices allowed Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) to largely reinstate a set of 2022 rules governing the behavior of partisan election challengers that lower courts previously struck down.
The right-wing group United Sovereign Americans filed a new lawsuit in Texas, alleging grave irregularities in the state’s procedures related to voter rolls and its overall voting system.
Federal prosecutors filed a new indictment Tuesday against former President Donald Trump in connection with his efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election.
The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court last Friday rejected a lawsuit from two Republican legislators seeking to upend state laws governing where voters must return their completed absentee ballots to be tallied.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Democratic Party of Georgia sued the State Election Board for passing rules this month that could delay the certification of election results.
Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen (R) is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to get involved in an ongoing legal battle over two voter suppression laws enacted in 2021.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed another lawsuit in North Carolina on Friday targeting its voter rolls, claiming the State Board of Elections allowed noncitizens to register to vote.
Republicans in Arizona filed a lawsuit challenging two executive orders signed by Governor Katie Hobbs (D) last year that expand voting access throughout the state.