The comments raise new questions about how closely DHS worked with right-wing groups seeking to challenge state election systems, and underscore concerns about some of those same groups now having access to government databases.
Thune said the SAVE Act, which the House passed in April, was in the process of being amended. But once a new version is introduced and advances out of committee, he’d schedule a vote.
A group of North Carolina students sued Republican state officials to restore early voting sites on three college campuses across the state, including at the U.S.’ largest historically Black college.
The U.S. Justice Department refiled its lawsuit seeking access to Georgia’s unredacted voter records, after a federal judge tossed the department’s initial case for being filed in the wrong district.
Maureen Riordan, the veteran election lawyer whose appointment as Acting Chief of the Department of Justice’s voting section symbolized the department’s sharp anti-voting shift, is no longer at DOJ, the department said.
A federal judge in Oregon said Attorney General Pam Bondi’s recent letter to Minnesota reinforced unease about how the Justice Department is wielding its authority in its nationwide push for state voter rolls, suggesting the administration’s campaign may be driven by improper motives.
This week brought a stunning revelation about the Trump administration co-ordinating with election deniers to put voters’ personal data at risk. And Democracy Docket played a key role in pushing the story forward.
Just hours after federal immigration officers shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi seized upon the incident to demand access to Minnesota’s voter rolls, directly tying the Trump administration’s quest for voters’ unredacted personal data to its aggressive immigration raids across the state.
After a sweeping, Republican-led review of more than 2 million voter registrations, Utah election officials identified just one apparent noncitizen in their voter rolls — who never voted.
The Houston primary election will be held using a new, drastically changed congressional map with different voters and a longtime incumbent from a neighboring district entering the race. It’s poised to be the most confusing congressional election this year.