Michigan election officials prepare for Trump DOJ to monitor primary elections
Local election chiefs say the Trump administration is trying to undermine trust in the election by targeting the Great Lakes State with debunked claims of voter fraud.
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Blue states urge Supreme Court to uphold block on Trump’s anti-mail voting order
Almost two dozen Democratic-led states asked the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to uphold a block on President Donald Trump’s sweeping attack on mail voting, saying it poses “extraordinary threats to our democracy.”
This week at Democracy Docket: We caught DOJ in a glaring double standard on its voter rolls crusade
Since the Trump administration started demanding state voter rolls last year, we’ve tracked the effort more closely than any other news outlet.
That’s what allowed us to produce the reporting we published this week.
Kamala Harris tells Urban League the Voting Rights Act won’t be revived ‘any time soon’
To overcome Trump’s attempts to cheat the elections, Kamala Harris told the Urban League that voter turnout has to be so large that it’s “too big to rig.”
Election denier Cleta Mitchell granted DHS elections official Heather Honey a lot of money
Heather Honey, a Dept. of Homeland Security elections official, received nearly $200,00 from an election denier fund for consulting services.
‘Serious doubts about the reliability of your data’: California bluntly challenges DHS over sweeping noncitizen voter claims
California’s top election official demanded the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) explain how it concluded that thousands of noncitizens may be registered to vote in the state, bluntly questioning both the department’s results and how it obtained California voter data.
Desperate Trump threatens Thune amid unwavering Senate resistance to SAVE America Act
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) appears to be calling President Donald Trump’s bluff as the White House doubles down on political threats to get parts of his sweeping anti-voting agenda into law.
Legacy media’s embarrassing feeding frenzy on New Jersey voter registration error
The legacy media has pounced on the story of New Jersey’s voter registration error. But the volume and tone of the news coverage have been embarrassingly out of proportion to the scale of the issue.
Minnesota City of Oak Grove Electronic Roster Challenge
City of Oak Grove v. Simon et al
An anti-voting lawsuit challenging a Minnesota law requiring electronic rosters over paper rosters at polling sites.
Pennsylvania calls for DHS to substantiate sweeping noncitizen voter roll claims
Pennsylvania’s top election official, a Republican, rebuffed the Trump administration’s claim that nearly 15,000 noncitizens could be registered to vote in the commonwealth, demanding it explain how that estimate was calculated.