Tag: voting rights

North Carolina and Alabama are due to start mailing ballots this week, and the justices have set a deadline of their own.

In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.

Civil rights leaders say this is the first march since the Supreme Court gutted a core Voting Rights Act protection.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a solo dissent that the ruling needlessly injects chaos into an election two months away.

Judge Indira Talwani has given the government until 8 a.m. Tuesday to respond, or take a restraining order that stops the rule reaching the Federal Register on Wednesday.

To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So far, the effort has produced meager results.

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune’s review of the Democratic Senate candidate’s residency records found that he may have voted in up to five elections using an address where he no longer lived.

Missouri voters overturned a right-to-work law at the ballot box in 2018. In August they decide whether to make citizen-led referendums far harder to use.

The measure advanced on a near party-line vote just before lawmakers left Washington for a lengthy summer recess.

The bipartisan agency responsible for voting-system certification and federal election guidance has been left without a single commissioner as the November elections approach.