North Carolina Elections Chief Demands Voters’ Full Social Security Numbers From DMV
North Carolina’s top elections official is pressing the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles for unprecedented access to voters’ full Social Security numbers.
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Missouri Secretary of State Erects New Hurdle for ‘People’s Veto’ of GOP Gerrymander
Missouri voters are organizing to use their constitutional right to veto the GOP-controlled state legislature’s new gerrymandered map. But while they cleared one administrative hurdle Wednesday, the Republicans who run the state are trying to place yet another stumbling block in their path.
LIVE BLOG: Supreme Court Hears Case That Could Gut the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court is currently hearing oral arguments in Louisiana v. Callais, a case that could decide the fate of the Voting Rights Act’s most powerful remaining provision, Section 2.
RNC Sues Hawaii for Access to Voter Roll, List Maintenance Records
The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed suit Tuesday accusing Hawaii’s Office of Elections and its chief election officer, Scott Nago (D), of unlawfully refusing to release public records about how the state maintains its voter registration lists.
Federal Court Deals Major Blow to Indiana GOP’s Student ID Ban
A federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging Indiana’s student ID voting ban — a major procedural win for young voters and pro-voting advocates who say the GOP-backed law was designed to suppress student voting. In a decision issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, denied Republicans’ […]
California City Passes Anti-Voting Measure Based on Election Conspiracy Group’s False Data
The resolution cites false data from the anti-voting conspiracy group Unite4Freedom.
Fair Elections — and Perhaps Control of Congress — at Stake as SCOTUS Hears Challenge to VRA
Among some voting rights advocates, the approaching oral arguments in Louisiana v. Callais, where the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a conservative challenge to the most important plank of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), feels like watching a condemned prisoner shuffling into his final pardon board hearing while the guards power up the electric chair next door.
Mail Ballots Were Found in an Amazon Box in Maine. Some Suspect a Political Dirty Trick.
Republicans have seized on the discovery of a box of ballots to claim that Maine’s elections are dangerously insecure. But some in the state smell a rat.
Why Anti-Voting Activists Are Using the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Election to Spread Disinformation
Pennsylvania Republicans see an opening to flip control of the state’s highest court in 2027.
Right-Wing Group Asks SCOTUS to Turn Pro-Voting Law Into Tool for Voter Purges
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a right-wing group with a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinterpret a federal law designed to expand voting access as a mandate for aggressive voter removals.