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Fulton County officials urged a federal judge to order the Department of Justice to return 2020 election records seized during the FBI’s unprecedented raid on the county’s election hub earlier this year, arguing the move violated voters’ rights and relied on misinformation.
A federal court upheld a North Carolina law requiring strict photo ID to vote, citing recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that have made it harder to block such restrictions under the Voting Rights Act (VRA).
The Trump administration’s sweeping campaign to force states to hand over sensitive voter registration data is colliding with a new revelation that could undermine its cases — and raise serious questions about whether the Department of Justice (DOJ) was fully candid in federal court.
Four voters have filed a lawsuit with the California Supreme Court demanding a GOP sheriff running for governor return hundreds of thousands of ballots cast in last year’s redistricting referendum, accusing him of violating state election laws that require the ballots to remain in the custody of election officials.
During a norm-shattering appearance at a conservative political conference, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said he couldn’t understand why anyone would disagree with a president deploying federal agents to the polls.
President Trump Thursday defended his decision to cast another ballot by mail in recent Florida special elections, despite relentlessly attacking the voting method as a vehicle for election fraud.
A pro-voting signature removal campaign has managed to derail Republican plans to legalize partisan gerrymanders in Utah.
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.
Oklahoma announced it agreed to turn over its full voter rolls to the Trump Justice Department — including sensitive personal data the state had previously refused to provide.