Votebeat: Every year since 2019, Arizona lawmakers have instructed the state’s attorney general to spend a half-million dollars to staff an “election fraud unit,” with no further instructions. Democrats accused former Attorney General Mark Brnovich, a Republican, of using the… Continue reading

Topeka Capital-Journal: Voter advocacy organizations are asking the Kansas Supreme Court to block a new state law that they argue criminalizes voter registration drives, despite lower courts rejecting the argument. The justices of the state’s high court indicated in Wednesday’s… Continue reading

NYT: The tug of war over voting rights and rules is playing out with fresh urgency at the state level, as Republicans and Democrats fight to get new laws on the books before the 2024 presidential election. Republicans have pushed… Continue reading

Election lawyer (and candidate for RNC Chair) Harmeet Dhillon: On the watershed day of January 8, 2021, Ronna McDaniel was elected at an RNC meeting to a third term as RNC chairman. At the time, she promised it would… Continue reading

AP: States routinely make adjustments in their voting laws — some subtle, some dramatic. But experts have never seen an explosion of legislation like that which followed the 2020 presidential election, when more than 3,600 election bills were introduced, according… Continue reading

Pew Research Center: Voters are generally confident ballots were counted accurately in this year’s election, yet they express greater confidence in in-person ballots being counted accurately than they do in counts for absentee or mail-in ballots. Republican voters are more… Continue reading

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Miriam Seifter and Adam Sopko with some interesting data on a shift from federal to state courts in terms of election litigation: In 2020, election litigation reached a new record high, with hundreds of lawsuits filed around the presidential… Continue reading

Patrick Marley for the NYT: In the United States, election season has turned into lawsuit season.One legal challenge in Michigan seeks to remove thousands from the voter rolls. Two lawsuits in Wisconsin seek to have more absentee ballots counted, even… Continue reading

Steven Rosenfeld: On August 29, eight cartons of notarized paperwork challenging 25,000 voter registrations were delivered by pro-Donald Trump “election integrity” activists to Gwinnett County’s election offices in suburban Atlanta. They were accompanied by additional paperwork claiming that 15,000… Continue reading