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Earlier this week, a group of nonpartisan California-based advocacy groups sent a letter to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber (D) outlining numerous concerns about the upcoming elections in Shasta County that require “urgent, decisive, and sustained response” from Weber’s office.
On Thursday, Oct. 26, the International Alliance of Theater Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 927, a chapter of the largest union representing workers in the entertainment industry, filed a lawsuit challenging Georgia’s absentee ballot application deadline for presidential elections.
On Thursday, Oct. 26, a federal judge struck down Georgia’s legislative and congressional maps after finding that the maps violate the Voting Rights Act (VRA).
On Wednesday, Oct. 25, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a decision that maintains a 1992 consent decree requiring Louisiana to have a majority-Black district in Orleans Parish for state Supreme Court elections.
On Friday, Oct. 20, a federal judge dismissed a right-wing lawsuit challenging Nevada’s recently enacted Election Worker Protection Law, Senate Bill 406.
Last Thursday, the Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court decision requiring Michigan’s top election officials to alter a set of 2022 rules regulating partisan election challengers.
On Tuesday, Oct. 24, Jenna Ellis, who served as an attorney for former President Donald Trump during his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, pleaded guilty to a single count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings.
A series of recent audits and investigations across three states have revealed close to a thousand polling places that are non-compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) or are otherwise inaccessible to voters with disabilities.
On Friday, Oct. 20, Kenneth Chesebro, who served as an attorney for former President Donald Trump and led an attempt to submit a false slate of Georgia electors in 2020, pleaded guilty to a felony count of conspiracy to file false documents.
On Tuesday, Oct. 17, a right-wing legal group filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Arizona Free Enterprise Club and a voter challenging the use of drop boxes in Arizona.