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Ignoring 62% of voters, North Carolina Republicans Overhaul Elections Board with Senate
North Carolina Republicans recently sent Senate Bill 749 to Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s desk; the bill passed by a 26-17...
Taylor Swift told fans to register to vote- then Vote.org got 35K
Vote.org, a non-partisan and non-profit platform encouraging election participation, received a massive spike in voter registrations last Tuesday. The group...
Virginia governor urges Republicans to vote early despite Trump’s skepticism
Early voting for Virginia’s consequential 2023 election began Friday September 22nd, with every seat in the state’s senate and house...
State of Oregon sues Fox over 2020 election coverage
The state of Oregon and New York City’s pension fund have sued Fox Corporation alleging Fox harmed investors by allowing...
Lawsuit filed in Minnesota to boot Trump from the 2024 ballot
Voters in Minnesota have sued to remove Trump from the ballot in the upcoming presidential election arguing he is ineligible...
GOP-led Wisconsin Senate votes to remove chief elections official
In a 22-11 vote entirely along party lines, Republicans in Wisconsin voted to remove Meagan Wolfe, a non-partisan administrator of...
China suspected of using AI on social media to sway US voters,
Microsoft researchers claim to have found what they believe to be a network of fraudulent Chinese-controlled social media accounts attempting...
Virginia’s off-year election is next big test for reproductive rights
Multiple Virginia Democrats including Congresswoman Abigail Spangberger and state senate candidate Jason Ford are emphasizing the importance of the upcoming...
Biden and Trump are tied in the polls. Democrats have mixed feelings
14 months from election day, former-President Donald Trump is polling even with President Biden. Poll results are eliciting mixed feelings...
A 15-year-old shakes up New Hampshire with tough questions for Ron Desantis
Quinn Mitchell, a high school student and aspiring journalist, has made a habit of attending presidential campaign events in New...
Election workers have gotten death threats and warnings they will be lynched,
Over a dozen people in multiple states have been charged with threatening election workers by a Justice Department unit trying...
Small political parties in Maine hope to gain ground with new election
Harrison Kemp, Chairman of the Libertarian Party of Maine, hopes a new law will help his party grow within the...
North Carolina Governor vetoes election bill, sparking override showdown with GOP supermajority
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper vetoed a Republican-backed election bill that would end a grace period for voting by mail...
Pa. Republicans slowly are learning to embrace mail-in ballots
Sam DeMarco, chairman of the Allegheny County Republican Committee, claims he’s had to fight countless conspiracy theories over the past...
Presidential candidate Ramaswamy calls for single-day, paper ballot elections
Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy recently proposed unique changes to election administration during a campaign event at a Pizza Ranch in...
Judge temporarily blocks law abolishing Harris County election administrator’s office; Texas AG
Under Texas Senate Bill 1750, Elections Administrator Clifford Tatum’s post was going to be eliminated effective September 1, until Judge...
Majority of Americans think Trump’s charges in Georgia election interference case are
A recent poll indicates 63% of Americans believe the charges approved by a grand jury in Georgia related to Trump’s...
Desantis’ debate memo urges him to defend Trump and take ‘a sledge-hammer’
A two page memo regarding the first Republican presidential primary debate written by a pro-Desantis super PAC was recently leaked...
Exclusive: Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump’s team is behind voting system
Atlanta-area prosecutors are now in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to...
Mississippi GOP Gov. Tate Reeves will face Democrat Brandon Presley in the
Current Mississippi Republican Governor Tate Reeves won the Republican nomination for a potential second term in office, he will now...
Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher
Ohio voters defeated a Republican-backed proposal that would have made it more challenging to change the state’s constitution. Had the...
Arizona Republicans wanted to hand-count ballots. Then they saw the price tag-
Mohave County in Arizona has decided not to hand-count ballots in next year’s election after discovering that counting the ballots...
Colorado Republican Party sues Secretary of State to block nearly 2 million
The Colorado Republican Party is suing the Colorado Secretary of State to prevent independent voters from casting their ballots in...
Trump indicted for efforts to overturn 2020 election and block transfer of
Donald Trump was indicted last week on felony charges for working to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The...
‘Ripe for political violence’: US election officials are quitting at an alarming
Over the last four years, over 40 of North Carolina’s 100 counties have had to replace their election directors due...
NY Legislation Expands Vote by Mail Access
Lawmakers in New York have expanded voting access by passing the New York Early Mail Voter Act. The new act...
Efforts to deceive are a top concern among state election officials heading
As they begin to prepare ahead of the 2024 election, efforts to deceive the public regarding voting and elections remains...
North Carolina elections at risk of chaos with Legislature’s proposed overhaul
North Carolina lawmakers are considering three bills that voting rights advocates claim could grind the state’s democratic apparatus to a...
Florida law changes vote-by-mail ballots for next election
A Florida law, Senate Bill 90 passed in 2021, includes restrictions on drop boxes and voting by mail which may...
Rudy Giuliani is negotiating possible resolution to lawsuit brought by 2 Georgia
Rudy Giuliani is negotiating a potential resolution in his legal dispute with former Georgia election workers Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and...
GOP Confidence in 2024 Vote Count Low After Years of False Election
A new poll shows that few Republicans have high confidence that votes will be counted accurately in the next presidential...
Ron Desantis’ presidential bid is giving life to a struggling Florida Democratic
The Florida Democratic Party recently held its annual Leadership Blue Gala in Miami Beach, and though Republican Ron Desantis’ won...
Arizona GOP election official sues Kari Lake for defamation
Maricopa County Arizona Recorder Stephen Richer is suing defeated gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake for defamation, claiming Lake’s repeated false claims...
Republicans move to exert new control over election oversight ahead of 2024
Republican officials in North Carolina, Texas, Georgia, and Wisconsin have enacted various new rules and regulations to increase their control...
Ten years of a crippled Voting Rights Act: how states make it
In 2013, the United States Supreme Court ended the pre-clearance requirement in a landmark case called Shelby county v Holder....
Lawyer Eastman Faces a Disciplinary Hearing Over a Plot to Keep Trump
Conservative attorney John Eastman is facing disbarment for allegedly devising a plan to keep Donald Trump in the White house...
Tennessee Democrats expelled over protests win primaries for their old seats
Justin Jones and Justin J. Pearson, two Democratic state representatives in Tennessee who were expelled by Republicans over gun violence...
Ohio Supreme Court rules in favor of August election that could preserve
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled last week in a 4-3 decision that an August election scheduled by Republican lawmakers, which...
GOP announces plan to encourage early, mail-in voting despite previous messaging
After multiple years of criticizing mail voting and so-called ballot harvesting as “ripe for fraud,” Republican party leaders want to...
ME considers ranked choice voting for governor races
Maine is expected to vote in the state Legislature this month to elect its governor using ranked-choice voting, potentially becoming...
Supreme Court backs landmark voting rights law, strikes down Alabama congressional map
The Supreme Court has struck down Republican-drawn Alabama congressional districts in a surprising affirmation of the Voting Rights Act. The...
Katie Hobbs vetoes GOP bills criminalizing homelessness, ranked choice voting
Governor Katie Hobbs recently vetoed two Republican-backed bills that would have criminalized homelessness and ranked choice voting. Senate Bill 1413...
Youtube changes policy to allow false claims about past U.S. presidential elections
Youtube has decided to stop removing content that falsely claims the 2020 election or other U.S. presidential elections were fraudulent...
New Mexico grand jury charges ex-GOP candidate with election interference in shootings
A former Republican political candidate, Solomon Peña, has been indicted on federal charges of election interference with additional conspiracy and...
RNC will require debate participants to support eventual nominee
The Republican National Committee is considering adding a second night to the first presidential primary debates occurring this August in...
Desantis’ presidential campaign announcement plagued by glitches on twitter
Florida Governor Ron Desantis formally launched his 2024 presidential campaign last week but disastrous technical difficulties from the Twitter platform...
Texas AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment points to tumultuous 2024 election
On Saturday Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was impeached on 20 articles of wrongdoing and his fate will now be...
Arizona judge rejects Kari Lake’s final 2022 election lawsuit
In a ruling Monday May 22nd an Arizona judge rejected the final lawsuit brought forth by Republican Kari Lake, affirming...
Trump or Desantis? Neither, Say Ukrainian-American Voters Angry at War Stance
Ukrainian-Americans, traditionally a Republican-leaning group, could have a significant impact on the 2024 general election according to lawmakers, strategists, and...
He voted in Florida for the first time in 2020. Then came
John Boyd Rivers, a mason who once laid the bricks of the very courthouse in which he now stood trial,...
Voter ID bill facing Republican infighting advances out of committee
A bill regarding voting identification requirements approved by Nebraska voters and introduced by Sen. Julie Slama, was advanced from the...
AI presents political peril for 2024 with threat to mislead voters
Tech-inclined political scientists and computer engineers have long warned that artificial intelligence could pose a major threat to our electoral...
Feinstein Returns to Senate, Casting First Vote in Months
Senator Dianne Feinstein returned to the Senate on Wednesday May 10th, casting her first vote in three months after recovering...
Ramaswamy proposes raising voting voting age to 25, unless people serve in
Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican presidential candidate, recently advocated for raising the minimum voting age to 25 unless young Americans have...
Election officials hold art contest to celebrate voting
The Pitt County, North Carolina Board of Elections is hosting an art contest in an effort to engage children and...
W. VA. politicos keep fighting over 2020; voters, not so much
Years after the conclusion of the 2020 presidential election, West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner and Attorney General Patrick...
Minnesota enacts automatic voter registration, penalties for election misinformation
Minnesota will have automatic voter registration going forward under a new bill signed by Governor Tim Walz. The Democratic Governor...
A top GOP lawyer wants to crack down on the college vote.
Cleta Mitchell, a top GOP election lawyer who worked with then-President Donald Trump to try to overturn the 2020 election,...
Michigan clerk who doubts election results faces recall
Stephanie Scott, a small town clerk accused of improperly handling voting equipment after casting doubt on President Joe Biden’s election...
North Carolina Supreme Court reverses electoral district, voter ID rulings decided last
The North Carolina Supreme Court has thrown out previous rulings that determined both redistricting maps to be excessively partisan and...
Michigan’s youth voter turnout in 2022 election was best in US, report
A new report from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University shows that...
Fox News, Dominion Voting Systems reach lawsuit settlement in high-stakes defamation case
Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems have reached a deal to resolve the $1.6 billion defamation case that the electronic...
NBC News Poll: Nearly 70% of GOP voters stand behind Trump amid
Despite his recent criminal arrest and other legal investigations into his past conduct, a new national NBC poll finds that...
Students turn out to vote in large numbers
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire students recorded the highest levels of voter turnout across the city in the recent Wisconsin Supreme...
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp urges Republicans to move on from election fraud
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp recently advised Republicans to move on from the 2020 presidential election. At a private Republican National...
GOP-controlled Arizona House votes to expel Republican representative
State Representative Liz Harris was expelled from the Arizona House of Representatives for ethics violations after inviting a conspiracy theorist...
Liberals gain control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the first time
Janet Protasiewicz, a judge on the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, has defeated conservative justice Dan Kelly in the Wisconsin Supreme...
Chicago mayoral race: Brandon Johnson wins runoff, Paul Vallas concedes
Brandon Johnson, a former public school teacher, has won Chicago’s mayoral election. Johnson defeated Paul Vallas, former Chicago Public Schools...
Swipe, like, vote: the organizers using dating apps to boost turnout
Krisiti Johnson, the national press secretary for NextGen, an organization working to increase youth voter turnout, has begun using a...
Far-right influencer convicted in 2016 voter suppression scheme
Douglass Mackey, a right-wing influencer from West Palm Beach, Florida, was convicted last week on charges that he allegedly conspired...
Voters with disabilities often overlooked in voting battles
Many voters with disabilities face barriers at the polls that politicians and the public at large rarely consider. A missing...
Youngkin changes Virginia’s voting rights restoration process
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has changed the process of how Virginians with a felony conviction can regain their voting rights....
Pennsylvania judge dismisses latest GOP mail ballot lawsuit
A Pennsylvania judge, on Thursday March 23rd, has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee that attempted to...
Ron Desantis’ donors and allies question if he’s ready for 2024
After a surge in support following the recent midterm election, Florida Governor Ron Desantis now remains significantly below Donald Trump...
Voting rights effort targets those held in jails across US
While many people serving time for felony convictions lose their right to vote, detainees awaiting trial or serving misdemeanor sentences...
Trump and GOP attempt to reverse course on mail-in voting ahead of
Former President Donald Trump and other Republicans are working to change course on mail-in voting ahead of next year’s presidential...
Ohio and Michigan are moving further apart in politics- differences in ballot
With similar demographics and past voting patterns, it appears surprising that Michigan and Ohio had such different electoral outcomes in...
Eyeing re-election, Biden breaks with progressives on some hot-button issues
President Biden has said he will sign legislation to overturn a D.C. crime law that eased mandatory sentences and penalties,...
Ex-Trump attorney admits statements about 2020 election are false and is censured
A disciplinary judge in Colorado has censured Jenna Ellis, one of Donald Trump’s top attorneys, for boosting the former president’s...
Robin Lockett and Sonja P. Brookins make Black history in Tampa city
Robin Lockett and Sonja P. Brookins have edged out several established politicians in the Tampa Bay city council election. The...
How a civil war erupted at Fox News after the 2020 election
Following the 2020 presidential election, Fox News, a network that had built record profits and ratings catering to the fans...
Thousands of pro-Trump bots attack DeSantis, Haley
An unknown source has created thousands, and perhaps hundreds of thousands, of fake, automated twitter accounts to support former president...
Lori Lightfoot becomes the first Chicago Mayor in 40 years to lose
Lori Lightfoot, Chicago’s Democratic Mayor, failed to receive enough votes in the nine-person race to move on to the April...
Marianne Williamson announces another long shot presidential bid
Marianne Williamson, a spiritual advisor and self help author, has officially launched her campaign for the 2024 presidential election. Williamson...
Young voters are poised to upend American politics
Over the next decade America’s youngest voters, Gen Z and Millenials, are scheduled to become a majority of the nation’s...
Tim Scott’s potential 2024 message tests GOP voter appetite for positivity, strategists
Tim Scott, South Carolina’s first Black senator and the first southern Black senator in over a century, is traveling to...
Texas Senate revives effort to make illegal voting a felony
Despite the lack of evidence of widespread voter fraud, the Texas Senate seems intent on raising the penalty for voting...
‘Shockingly reckless’: Fox News hosts privately shot down Trump’s ‘big lie’ over
According to a court filing in Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit against the network, Fox News hosts privately shared that...
Rep. Barbara Lee joins race for California US Senate seat
United States Representative Barbara Lee officially launched her campaign for the California Senate seat held by retiring Senator Dianne Feinstein....
This Virginia congressional election could make history
Democratic candidate Jennifer McClellan will face Republican Leon Benjamin on Tuesday February 21st in a special election for Virginia’s 4th...
Texas taxpayers face a $100 million bill to update voting machines with
Texas state lawmakers passed a broad and controversial new election law in 2021 that mandates the purchase of voting technology...
Oklahoma considers separating state and federal elections if voting rights acts pass
A combination of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement and Freedom to Vote Acts was passed in the House...
Nikki Haley announces presidential campaign, challenging Trump
Nikki Haley, the former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina governor, has announced her candidacy for President. With her announcement...
The Shocking Decline of Senate Ticket-Splitting
Over the past two decades, “ticket-splitting” in Senate elections, where voters cast separate votes for candidates of different political parties,...
Democrats vote to change order of 2024 presidential primary
The Democratic Party approved the reordering of its 2024 presidential primary, changing the location of its first primary election from...
Gen Z’s political power: new data gives insight into America’s youngest voters
Gen Z voters turned out at historic rates in the recent midterm election. In fact, Gen Z and millennial voters...
Local election officials in Florida call for scrapping new ID rules for
Florida County election supervisors are imploring the state to toss out new vote-by-mail restrictions set to go into effect next...
Trump says he’s ‘more angry’ and ‘more committed’ to White House bid
Former President Donald Trump claimed he is “more committed” than ever to winning the White House, as he resumed his...
Democrat Adam Schiff announces bid for Feinstein’s US Senate seat in California
Representative Adam Schiff announced Thursday that he will be running for Senator Dianne Feinstein’s seat in what is bound to...
GOP action on mail ballot timeline angers military families
Ohio’s recently passed election law notably shortens the window for mailed ballots to be received, despite no evidence that the...