Since the 2016 election, Americans have grown uncomfortably familiar with the voting machines used by the state of Georgia. What we've learned is that Georgia has been using voting machines that are vulnerable to mischief-making from outside actors. And we've learned that elections officials in the state aren't terribly concerned about this … [Read more...]
New Election In the North Carolina 9th Congressional District
https://youtu.be/cEZisVWj8OA?rel=0 There will be a second election in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District, after the state election board unanimously voted for a “do-over” in the face of credible accusations of absentee voter fraud against Mark Harris, the Republican candidate who won the initial election in November by about 900 votes. … [Read more...]
Lawsuits Challenging Wisconsin GOP’s Lame Duck Power Grab Multiply
In the wake of the November midterms, Republicans in Wisconsin joined with their GOP colleagues across the country in attempting to use a lame duck legislative session to kneecap newly elected Democrats and push through conservative priorities. Democrats in Wisconsin won the state's governor's mansion and attorney general's office. Republicans … [Read more...]
Split Decision: Democrats Take House, Republicans Expand Senate Majority
Driven by big gains in wealthy suburbs and in districts won by Hillary Clinton in 2016, Democrats lived up to pre-election expectations and won back the House of Representatives on Tuesday, winning a net of 26 House seats as of the publication of this post. However, Republicans took advantage of an extremely favorable Senate map and expanded … [Read more...]
Justice Department Sending Fewer Civil Rights Monitors to Polls
The Department of Justice announced in a press release Monday that they will be sending fewer civil rights monitors to polling places than in 2016. Business Insider reports DOJ personnel will be deployed to 35 jurisdictions in 19 states. In 2016, DOJ personnel were present in 67 jurisdictions in 28 states. Stories of voter intimidation and … [Read more...]
Prominent Voter Suppression Measures In 2018
In the run-up to a midterm election that is one of the most important in recent memory and which will be decided by turnout, it's worth reviewing some of the voter suppression efforts that have taken place in the last year. Here are some of the most notable and egregious suppression measures affecting the 2018 midterms: Georgia Here are two … [Read more...]
Voter Suppression Tactics Fail as Minorities Exercise Voting Rights
Voter suppression tactics used by Republicans and one rare Democrat, who have rejected minority voters’ ballots due to innocent errors, are being exposed and challenged just two weeks before a groundbreaking midterm election. Nearly two-thirds of registered voters are showing a high level of interest—the highest recorded in a midterm since the Wall … [Read more...]
Decades Old Election Law Overturned
New Hampshire local vote moderators can no longer throw out absentee ballots just because they don’t like the look of the signature on the ballot. On August 16, 2018, a federal judge said the 40-year-old election law that allowed absentee ballots to be thrown out is unconstitutional. Why, exactly, were these absentee ballots thrown out and not … [Read more...]
Manufacturer Admits Putting Remote Access Software on Election-Management Systems
There's a lot at stake in the upcoming midterm elections. Control of both houses of Congress is realistically up for grabs, as are dozens of governorships across the country and thousands of state legislative seats from Alaska to Florida. So the security and integrity of American voting systems is an issue of paramount concern. It's into this … [Read more...]
Arkansas Supreme Court Temporarily Reinstates Voter ID Law
The Arkansas Supreme Court has temporarily stayed a lower court’s injunction of the state’s Voter ID law while the appeals process is underway. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Alice Gray overturned the restrictive voting measure last month, arguing that the law went beyond the scope of the state’s constitution. Barry Haas, who brought the initial … [Read more...]
