The city of Columbus has joined a lawsuit challenging a Trump administration policy conditioning anti-terrorism funding on changes to local election administration. The Trump administration wants to impose new proof of citizenship requirements, broader post-election audits, and a shift to hand-marked paper ballots. Those changes align with provisions in the Save America Act and the […]
(The Center Square) – Two constitutional amendments introduced by Republican lawmakers in California were pushed in a press conference on Thursday morning on election integrity.
It would be silly to claim that there aren’t a lot of things in the modern world about which to be deeply concerned or even, at times, fearful. There’s the ongoing global environmental emergency, the resurgence of war and authoritarianism, the many uncertainties surrounding the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the plague of poverty and […]
A federal judge has dismissed a case from the U.S. Department of Justice against Kentucky election officials that sought to gain access to voter registration data, including sensitive information such as driver’s license and Social Security numbers. In an opinion released Thursday, District Judge Claria Horn Boom cited a recent ruling regarding Michigan voter data […]
The same French multinational biometrics technology company behind the motor voter system in New Jersey where a software glitch mistakenly registered 6,600 noncitizens to vote — of whom a few hundred did so — also provides software and equipment for the state of Rhode Island. But Rhode Island Secretary of State Gregg Amore said Wednesday […]
North Dakota’s Republican and Democratic candidates for secretary of state agree the state’s elections are secure, free and fair in response to President Donald Trump’s election integrity speech. In a primetime national address last week, Trump said election infrastructure across the country, including voting machines, ballot tabulators, voter rolls, election pollbooks and official election results […]
(The Center Square) – A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to allow mail-in ballots to be received after Election Day will effectively leave California’s absentee ballot rules unchanged heading into the November midterm election, according to multiple sources.
