Daily Beast: New Hampshire’s attorney general announced on Thursday that the state had arrested the publisher of a local weekly newspaper in Londonderry earlier this week, alleging she illegally published political ads without properly disclosing them to be ads.Londonderry… Continue reading

AP: A former South Texas mayor was acquitted Thursday of organized election fraud and illegal voting after an eight-day trial.A Hidalgo County jury deliberated for about six hours Thursday before finding former Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina not guilty of… Continue reading

Sam Levine for The Guardian: Several Floridians facing criminal voter fraud charges, loudly trumpeted by Governor Ron DeSantis last week, believed they were eligible to vote, and in some cases said they were advised by government officials that they could… Continue reading

Jason Willick WaPo column: If American states are laboratories of democracy, they’re also laboratories of democratic decay. North Carolina — close to the median state by party vote share — is offering a grim lesson in how polarization can lead… Continue reading

Stephen Fowler for GPB: A new filing from the Fulton County District Attorney’s office paints the clearest picture yet of the scope of a special grand jury’s investigation into potential election interference in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election by former President… Continue reading

NYT Mag: For much of its history, Jones Day was a juggernaut in the field of corporate litigation. A global goliath with more than 40 offices and about 2,500 lawyers, it raked in billions a year in fees from tobacco,… Continue reading

Helena Independent Record: A Republican state lawmaker testified in a Billings courtroom Tuesday that her GOP colleagues were motivated when crafting new election laws last year by the perception that “college students tend to be liberal.”Rep. Geraldine Custer, a… Continue reading

NYT: Six days after major news organizations declared Donald J. Trump the loser of the 2020 presidential election, his allies were applying a desperate full-court press in an effort to turn his defeat around, particularly in Georgia.The pro-Trump lawyer… Continue reading

Jessica Huseman for VoteBeat: A legal opinion released by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton last week will almost certainly throw county elections offices into chaos after November, experts say, exposing election clerks to possible criminal charges and materially reducing… Continue reading

Oped from  Anthony Romero (ACLU), Janai Nelson (NAACP LDF), and Lourdes Rosado (LatinoJustice PRLDEF) calling on the Biden Admin to condemn the Insular Cases. The Solicitor General is set to file its response to the cert. petition in Fitisemanu v.… Continue reading

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Carrie Levine for VoteBeat: North Carolina’s May primary was “one of the worst elections I’ve ever worked,” said Karen Hebb, the elections director in Henderson County. “It was worse than COVID.” In addition to long conversations with skeptical voters bringing… Continue reading