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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) appointed Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R), an election denier, to fill the Senate seat vacated by Marco Rubio (R) — who is set to join President-elect Donald Trump’s administration as secretary of state.
Today, a North Carolina judge rejected a request from the Republican National Committee (RNC), North Carolina GOP, Wake County GOP and two voters to toss out nearly 60,000 ballots cast in all 2024 statewide races.
On Tuesday, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals will hear oral argument over a Tennessee policy requiring individuals with prior felony convictions to produce additional documents to prove eligibility when registering to vote. A district court last year said the policy violated federal law.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) intervened in a Republican National Committee (RNC) lawsuit challenging 60,000 ballots cast in North Carolina in the state Supreme Court race and all other 2024 election contests.
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a bill that would require anyone registering to vote in federal elections to provide proof of citizenship, will be one of the first ten bills considered in the new Congress.
The newly-elected 119th Congress will be sworn in Friday and the GOP — which has repeatedly targeted voting rights — is set to control both chambers for the first time since 2019.
The majority of voting lawsuits filed during the 2024 election cycle were related to election administration and voter registration, not mail-in voting, which is a departure from 2020 election litigation.
For at least seven years, Arizona officials knew about the administrative error that led to hundreds of thousands of residents registered to vote without showing proof of citizenship.
The state of Kansas agreed to permanently stop enforcing a law that undermined the work of voter registration organizations by imposing criminal penalties on individuals whose actions could be construed as conduct that would be undertaken by an election official.
The North Carolina election board said it won’t order a full hand recount for GOP Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin.