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The Trump administration unveiled a new proposed rule that, if implemented, would forbid nonprofits from using federal funds to help Americans register to vote. There’s one issue: Very few — if any — federal dollars are allocated to civic nonprofits for voter registration campaigns.
Republicans introduced a new bill that could help revive pieces of the SAVE America Act — a sweeping voting restrictions package that has stalled in the Senate — by using a federal grant program for REAL ID cards to create the budget impact needed to move through reconciliation and bypass a Democratic filibuster.
A federal judge has approved a settlement agreement between the NAACP Virginia State Conference and the state of Virginia that will make it easier for college students to register to vote and ensure fewer of their registration applications are rejected.
As Republicans eagerly await to see if GOP candidates in closely watched races earned enough votes to advance to the general election, the prolonged process is fueling conspiracy election theories.
The NAACP asked a federal court Wednesday to stop the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing a Trump-backed rule that could block eligible voters from receiving mail-in ballots — arguing the plan violates a court-enforced settlement that requires USPS to prioritize election mail through 2028.
A lawyer who was active in lawsuits seeking to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, and later represented the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, is the latest attorney to be hired by the Trump Department of Justice’s Voting Section, according to court filings reviewed by Democracy Docket.
Bianco rose to national prominence earlier this year when it was revealed his office seized more than 650,000 ballots in the Golden State’s November redistricting special election.
Metro Atlanta district attorneys sued to block a new Georgia law that would strip party labels from district attorney and other local races in five Democratic-leaning counties, arguing the measure is an unconstitutional attack on Black and Democratic voters.
Despite what the far-right is saying, there’s been no evidence whatsoever of election fraud in California’s elections.
Democrats and civil-rights advocates are speaking out after the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority delivered a final blow to the Voting Rights Act (VRA) Tuesday when it allowed Alabama to use a congressional map previously found to have discriminated against Black voters.