Exclusive: Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump’s team is behind voting system breach
Atlanta-area prosecutors are now in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to the January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, Georgia. The newly obtained evidence further substantiates the prosecutors claim that allies of the former president attempted to access voting systems after the 2020 election as part of their broader push to produce evidence that could back up Trump’s unproven claims of widespread voter fraud.Visit CNN to learn moreImage Credit:National Archives and Records Administration (CC0
Mississippi GOP Gov. Tate Reeves will face Democrat Brandon Presley in the November election
Current Mississippi Republican Governor Tate Reeves won the Republican nomination for a potential second term in office, he will now face Democrat Brandon Presley in the November 7th gubernatorial election. Presley, a cousin of rock ‘n’ roll legend Elvis Presley, hopes to unseat the GOP governor in the heavily conservative state. Visit Associated Press to learn moreImage Credit:Brian.S.W (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights
Ohio voters defeated a Republican-backed proposal that would have made it more challenging to change the state’s constitution. Had the measure passed, Issue 1 would have switched the threshold for passing a constitutional amendment from a simple majority to a 60% supermajority. This special election may have major consequences in the near future, with a fall campaign in which voters will decide whether or not to enshrine abortion rights into the Ohio state constitution. Visit Associated Press to learn moreImage Credit:OZinOH (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Arizona Republicans wanted to hand-count ballots. Then they saw the price tag- and errors.
Mohave County in Arizona has decided not to hand-count ballots in next year's election after discovering that counting the ballots by hand would cost over a million dollars and lead to inaccurate results. Many Republican leaders in the state had been advocating for a shift to hand-counting votes in response to claims of voter fraud from former president Donald Trump and his supporters. However, after a test run in June where workers spent three days hand-counting a batch of 850 test ballots from the
Colorado Republican Party sues Secretary of State to block nearly 2 million Coloradans from voting in primary elections
The Colorado Republican Party is suing the Colorado Secretary of State to prevent independent voters from casting their ballots in the Democratic or Republican primary elections. The lawsuit would repeal Proposition 108, an overwhelmingly popular ballot measure from 2016, which gives independent voters in CO the right to vote in either the Democratic or the Republican primary. If the Republicans are successful in overturning the law, over 1.7 million Coloradans will be unable to vote in the next primary election as unaffiliated voters. Visit