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The Department of Justice dramatically escalated its confrontation with California election officials Friday, explicitly warning that they could face federal criminal exposure if they count ballots from voters the Trump administration has flagged as potential noncitizens.
Florida’s student ID ban is the latest in a string of Republican efforts to restrict voting access in the state.
The NAACP sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) Friday in a bid to block the Trump administration from deploying 1,000 poll monitors nationwide during the midterm elections. While the DOJ has historically operated smaller poll monitoring programs to supervise past elections, the NAACP argues the Trump administration is using poll monitoring as a pretext to […]
The Nebraska Supreme Court Friday upheld the right of eligible U.S. citizens living abroad to vote in the state, in yet another loss for Republicans seeking to restrict overseas voting.
Since returning to office last year, President Trump and the election deniers he’s placed in critical positions across the federal government have attacked voting on multiple fronts. Now, they’re targeting the most fundamental step toward casting a ballot in U.S. elections: voter registration.
The DOJ appears to have put Los Angeles in a bind: It asked the county to withhold ballots for people outside its jurisdiction, then sued for noncompliance.
U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan previously vacated what the DOJ internally deemed its “list maintenance project” as unlawful and a violation of privacy laws.
The Department of Justice’s alarming lawsuit to stop California from counting roughly 20,000 ballots from people suspected of being noncitizens could lay the groundwork for challenges to Election Day results, experts warned.
Three voting and privacy rights organizations asked a federal court Thursday to declare the Trump administration’s “secretive and unlawful effort” to collect millions of Americans’ voter records unlawful under federal privacy laws.
A Montana judge appeared skeptical of a law requiring college students to pledge to live in the state after they graduate in order to register to vote.