Lawmakers Grill Voting Machine Vendors on Paperless Machines
Congress on Thursday heard contradicting testimony from voting machine vendors and election security experts about the safety of paperless voting machines.
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The Hofeller Files Return, Part 1
The Hofeller Files Return: We received a massive document dump over the weekend with thousands of files to review regarding the deceased GOP-gerrymandering guru Thomas Hofeller and his efforts to help draw districts that favor the Republican party. We’ll have more information to share about what exactly these files contain, but after an initial review, we’ve […]
Voter IDs and Roll Purges
No More Voter ID… for Now: A federal court in North Carolina foiled the GOP-majority legislature’s effort to require photo ID for voting last week. The decision comes as the state chapter of the NAACP awaits a trial regarding its December 2018 lawsuit against this law. If successful, the voter ID requirement could be struck down […]
Automatic Voter Registration Efforts Face Setbacks
Automatic Voter Registration Efforts Face Setbacks: The Massachusetts state legislature passed a bill in 2018 that would automatically register eligible voters once they interacted with the Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV). But once voting rights advocates learned that the RMV was working to implement a more confusing version of what the legislature passed, they urged lawmakers […]
Thought Control: US Monitors Social Media Activity of Visa Applicants
Want a visa to the US? Then you have to be prepared to disclose your social media activity — even though there is no evidence that type of screening can identify threats.
Gerrymandering Prisoners
Earlier this year, a federal court in Connecticut allowed the NAACP to proceed in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit to challenge a widely overlooked population impacted by gerrymandering: inmates. The plaintiffs in the case allege that prison gerrymandering — counting inmates in districts with prisons during the census instead of where that person last lived —particularly disenfranchises low-income and […]
How to *NOT* Safeguard Fair Elections
If you want to warn Georgia officials about election security problems, you better brace for retaliation.
Louisiana Dem Governor Re-elected
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards will return to the governor’s mansion for another four years in what is being considered pushback against President Donald Trump, who stumped for his Republican challenger. Now, with just months before the 2020 presidential primary election, Edwards will need to work with state lawmakers and election officials to upgrade Louisiana’s […]
Critical Local & State Election Results
Local and state elections were held this week, and although Democrats had historic victories, they would have had a much harder time winning had it not been for grassroots organizing to level the playing field and judicial wins. In Virginia… Democrats overcame years of gerrymandered districts to flip the state house. The Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling […]
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