North Carolina advances more voter suppression measures
A North Carolina Senate committee greenlit new voter suppression measures Tuesday, moving forward a bill that would make it easier to purge voters from the rolls.
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RNC wants to defend Florida’s proof-of-citizenship voting requirement
Republicans asked a federal judge Tuesday to allow them to intervene in a lawsuit against Florida’s new requirement that voters prove their citizenship before they can cast a ballot.
Appeals court backs Trump bid to block some mail ballots, for now, as Supreme Court mulls issue
A federal appeals court is letting the Trump administration continue implementing President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order. The ruling Tuesday comes a day after the administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a block on implementing the order in 23 Democratic-led states and Washington, D.C. upheld in a separate case.
GOP sues California over ballot language that accurately describes voter ID measure
The suit alleges that the new language is inaccurate because the measure wouldn’t stop Californians from voting, just from having their vote counted.
Kansas court rejects last-minute GOP bid to toss late-arriving mail ballots
In a voting rights victory, the Kansas Court of Appeals rejected Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s (R) emergency bid to reinstate a rule that could have thrown out lawfully cast mail ballots.
Trump DOJ asks Supreme Court to greenlight anti-mail voting order before midterms
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to allow President Donald Trump’s sweeping attack on mail voting to go into effect before the upcoming midterms.
Trump DOJ said some states ‘cooperated’ with voter roll grab by providing public information. It sued other states for doing the same
Records reviewed by Democracy Docket reveal no consistent standard used by DOJ for deciding which states have met the department’s demands and which should be sued.
This week at Democracy Docket: How Trump’s Texas gerrymander threatens to silence a community’s voice
Trump’s gerrymandering war gave the GOP an unearned edge in the midterms. But the episode has degraded our democracy in another way, too: by preventing large numbers of voters from electing representatives that will respond to their needs.
Trump’s anti-mail voting order gets blocked again, this time by federal appeals court
Trump’s plan to wrest control of elections from states was thwarted as a federal appeals court declined to lift a block on his anti-mail voting executive order.
Trump’s EAC firings threaten access for voters with disabilities, experts warn
Elections experts worry about the future of one of the most prominent voting methods for voters with disabilities — ballot-marking devices — as Trump ramps up his anti-voting-machine rhetoric amid the EAC’s restructuring.
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