The Department of Justice sued Alabama on Sept. 27 for improperly removing from the voter rolls more than 3,200 people the state claims are noncitizens, an expulsion that falls within the 90-day preelection “Quiet Period’ where states are forbidden from purging voter rolls. Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen announced a purge of 3,251 alleged … Read more
Brandyn Gallagher should be on the road right now. Instead, the 36-year-old, who has spent the last five years driving an 18-wheeler, is at home in northeast Arkansas looking for a new job. Gallagher doesn’t want to give up trucking. They pivoted to the profession after working as a consultant for diversity, equity and inclusion … Read more
WASHINGTON — Several far-right Republicans have come out against a plan by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to pair must-pass government funding with a bill targeting the supposed threat of widespread noncitizen voting. At least six Republicans have said they would vote against the bill, which is likely more than Johnson can lose without having … Read more
WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, the Republican election official who defied Donald Trump in 2021 echoed Trump’s fearmongering about noncitizen voting. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger joined other Republican officials in Washington to call for states to ban undocumented immigrants from casting ballots. “I believe that no matter where you’re elected – for president, school … Read more
Only months after being convicted of 34 felonies in the state of New York, former President Donald Trump exercised his right to vote at a Palm Beach polling location on Aug. 14. Florida voters overwhelmingly supported a 2018 constitutional amendment restoring the voting rights of people with felony convictions after they’ve finished their sentences, except … Read more
In his 34 years working in elections, Wesley Wilcox had never experienced what happened to him just a couple of weeks ago. A woman who said she was involved with the conspiracy theory group True the Vote came to his office with a list of names about 2,500 entries long, spanning about 800 printed pages. … Read more
CLEVELAND — A federal judge has struck down part of Ohio’s sweeping 2023 election law, which voting rights groups said restricted people from helping voters with disabilities cast absentee ballots. Voting advocates argued that the Republican-backed law went too far by prohibiting anyone but a few qualifying family members from helping people with disabilities deliver … Read more
Residents in a small Alabama town will be able to vote in their own municipal elections for the first time in decades after a four-year legal battle. A proposed settlement has been reached in the town’s voting rights case, allowing Newbern, a predominantly Black town with 133 residents, to hold its first legitimate elections in … Read more
