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Georgia’s Republican-controlled election board invited the Justice Department Thursday to declare the state’s voting system unlawful before the upcoming midterm elections.
Local Republicans in New Jersey — including one who was pardoned by President Donald Trump after a tax evasion conviction — allegedly targeted Democratic and unaffiliated voters for eligibility challenges while leaving Republicans in the same situation untouched.
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the lawsuit argues.
Whoever gets the most write-in votes will win the statehouse seat in November.
If a tiny number of noncitizen votes compromised the integrity of New Jersey’s elections, the exponentially larger number of ballots from valid voters that were rejected due to strict interpretations of the rules — often enforced in ways that err on the side of suppression, rather than inclusion — surely did even more damage. And yet, the issue has spurred no investigations, no calls for new legislation loosening voting or counting rules, and no impassioned denunciations from lawmakers.
The Republican National Committee is piloting a training program for Wisconsin election observers to identify discrepancies with voting machines, as the GOP piles additional scrutiny on voting processes in the swing state.
A prominent election denier whom the Trump administration hired to pursue investigations into election-related conspiracy theories has resigned several months after he failed to find evidence that the 2020 presidential race, which President Donald Trump lost, was stolen.
Republicans on the Georgia State Election Board adopted Monday seeking the Trump administration to intervene in a vague crusade against the state’s voting system just weeks before the midterm elections.
The Trump administration cannot leverage grants meant to help prevent terrorist attacks to force states and local governments to adopt a slate of new anti-voting measures, a federal judge ruled Monday in a major win for voters.
Rep. Mike Collins (R), the GOP candidate for Georgia’s U.S. Senate seat, said he was “fine” with sending federal troops to the polls, though this is illegal.
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