Trump promotes posts questioning midterm results
It makes clear that MAGA election denialism remains alive and well heading into the Trump’s last two years in office.
Voting
Gerrymandering backlash helped power Democrats’ blue wave
The data shows how Trump’s map-rigging scheme backfired spectacularly, motivating Democratic voters to turn out in volumes.
Trump DOJ drops California ballot segregation lawsuit after Supreme Court defeat
The Trump administration voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against California, abandoning its effort to force election officials to set aside thousands of mail ballots cast by voters it suspected of being noncitizens.
Mississippi Senate ballot fight heats up as Colom’s lead grows
Mississippi’s Senate race is nail-bitingly close — and the legal and political battle over the count has already kicked off.
Mississippi Senate race votes at risk after state eliminates mail ballot curing rule
A few months ago, Mississippi’s secretary of state quietly deleted state regulations that let mail voters fix minor issues with their ballots after casting them, putting those votes at risk this year.
‘Protect the will of the voters’: Mississippi’s Scott Colom lays out pro-voting agenda in exclusive interview
Democrat Scott Colom, who holds a razor-thin lead in Mississippi’s still-undecided U.S. Senate race, called for sweeping reforms to expand voting access and curb partisan gerrymandering in an interview with Democracy Docket.
Karma: By gutting Voting Rights Act, Supreme Court launched a new Civil Rights movement and may have broken Mississippi’s red wall
It has been 156 years since the nation elected its first Black United States senator. He represented Mississippi. The state may soon see its second Black senator in history, after voters flocked to the polls in defiance of the state’s restrictive voting system and in the throes of the greater South’s redistricting campaign.
New data suggests Peltola likely to win Alaska, voters not confused by 2 Dan Sullivans
Both incumbent Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan (R) and Democratic challenger Mary Peltola said in dueling “path to victory memos” that they expect to win once every ballot is counted and ranked-choice voting reallocations begin.
Boebert campaign ‘investigating’ voting as she trails her Democratic challenger
Boebert’s campaign attorney is Scott Gessler, Colorado’s former secretary of state and an election denier who has echoed Trump’s debunked claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
Mississippi makes it harder to cast a ballot than almost anywhere else. Voters defied the system
Mississippi voter turnout skyrocketed this year — bringing Democratic Senate candidate Scott Colom close to an unlikely win — despite perhaps the nation’s most restrictive voting system.