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Pro-voting groups, New Georgia Project and A. Philip Randolph Institute, filed a lawsuit this week challenging voter suppression law Senate Bill 189, which creates more pathways to challenge a voter’s eligibility.
The nation’s most conservative federal appeals court ruled that a coalition of Black and Latino voters who formed a majority-minority district in Galveston County, Texas cannot bring vote-dilution claims under the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in their lawsuit against the county’s commissioners court map. Thursday’s ruling from the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals […]
Some Arizona voters’ whose registration forms would have been previously rejected will be registered to vote after an important order from the 9th Circuit yesterday.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) announced yesterday that his office instructed the board of elections in 88 counties to begin the process of removing noncitizen voters from election registration rolls.
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (R) filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging President Joe Biden’s 2021 executive order promoting voter registration.
Today, the Senate advanced a bipartisan bill that would create dozens of new district court judgeships in the country. Sen. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat and co-sponsor of the Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved (JUDGES) Act, said on X the legislation cleared the Senate in a unanimous vote. “Delaware has some of America’s most […]
A group of voters are challenging Mississippi’s decades-old electoral map for the state Supreme Court, arguing the current districts dilute the voting strength of Black Mississippians in a state where they comprise 40% of the population.
A Pennsylvania appeals court today ruled that images of completed absentee and mail-in ballots are public records under state election law, after a voter sought such records from the 2020 election.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) argued a November ballot initiative that aims to end gerrymandering would actually make it worse.
Georgia’s absentee ballot application deadline will remain in place despite an attempt from theater workers to block the state’s short application window.
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