“Voters with disabilities face new barriers over Texas voting law”
Courthouse News Service reports.
“When an election denier becomes a chief election official”
Zach Montellaro for Politico:
Many of the election deniers running for secretary of state this year have spent their time talking about something they can’t do: “decertifying” the 2020 results.The bigger question — amid concerns about whether they would fairly… Continue reading
“What brought down one Texas county’s entire elections department? It was something in the water.”
Votebeat:
Last November’s sleepy constitutional amendment election nearly came to blows in Gillespie County, a central Texas county known for its vineyards. A volunteer poll watcher, whose aggressive behavior had rankled election workers all day, attempted to force his… Continue reading
“Some Republicans in Washington state cast a wary eye on an election security device”
Miles Parks for NPR:
In northeast Washington state, a remote region nestled against the Canadian border, the politics lean conservative and wariness of government runs high.Earlier this year, a Republican-led county commission there made a decision that rippled across Washington… Continue reading
“Election Data Breach Attracts Georgia Investigators”
NYT:
The day after Donald J. Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol, a small group working on his behalf traveled to rural Coffee County, Ga., about 200 miles southeast of Atlanta.One member of the group was Paul Maggio, an executive… Continue reading
“Truth Social faces financial peril as worry about Trump’s future grows”
WaPo:
Former president Donald Trump’s Truth Social website is facing financial challenges as its traffic remains puny and the company that is scheduled to acquire it expresses fear that his legal troubles could lead to a decline in his… Continue reading
“Once unthinkable, Democrats now see narrow path to keeping the House”
WaPo:
Democrats are voicing growing confidence about limiting losses in the House and potentially even salvaging their majority in the midterm elections, with candidates and allied groups making moves to capitalize on a backlash to abortion restrictions, signs of… Continue reading
“Michigan GOP formally nominates two Trump-backed election deniers for key statewide offices”
CNN:
The Michigan Republican Party on Saturday nominated two candidates for statewide office who have denied the results of the 2020 presidential election and would have oversight of the state’s elections if they win in November.Party delegates formally nominated … Continue reading
“Republicans fight new NC election rules, led by Trump lawyer central to 2020 conspiracies”
News and Observer:
Claiming to have already trained over 1,000 people to volunteer to help run this November’s elections, conservative activists in North Carolina are opposing new rules that would more strictly regulate those volunteers’ behavior at polling places.… Continue reading
“Company Praised Voting Rights, but Handed $1.6B to Right-Wingers”
Daily Beast:
Last year, publicly traded Eaton signed an open statement championing “American democracy” and acknowledging the country’s history of political disenfranchisement. “We all should feel a responsibility to defend the right to vote and to oppose any discriminatory… Continue reading
“Trump election probe in Georgia cites voting system breach”
AP:
The prosecutor investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking information about the alleged involvement of a Trump ally in the breach of voting equipment at… Continue reading
“Michigan G.O.P. Lining Up Behind Conspiracy Theorist for Attorney General; Matthew DePerno’s political rise has been tied to a debunked election report. Some see parallels between his dive into 2020 conspiracies theories and his legal career.”
Colorado General Assembly v. Salazar (2004) as precursor to Moore v. Harper
The Supreme Court’s decision to grant certiorari in Moore v. Harper, the North Carolina redistricting case, has prompted, and will prompt, a great deal of commentary (including this helpful discussion this week over at the Safeguarding Democracy Project). But it’s… Continue reading