Progress Report | A golden opportunity and critical lesson
On Wednesday, I joined a press call hosted by the Fair Elections Center and asked them about the administration’s request that the Supreme Court overturn the appeals court decision and allow the USPS to withhold ballots from tens of millions of Americans. Officials there weren’t exactly sanguine about the high court’s record on voting rights and what […]
Even More News | Anthony Fauci: History’s Greatest Monster?
On today’s episode of Even More News, Katy, Cody, and Jonathan talk about the GOP’s furious anger at Anthony Fauci’s diary entries, their refusal to kick an ALLEGED domestic abuser out of Congress, and bad maps. Plus, they speak with Rebekah Caruthers, president of the Fair Elections Center, about all the different shenanigans to expect […]
The Philadelphia Citizen | Want Your Voting Rights?
Then, several voting advocates argue, you have to use them — and tell others to do the same. Read the Op-Ed
The Practivist Pod | Fair Elections with Rebekah Caruthers
With less than 100 days until the midterms, the Trump regime is ramping up their attack on voting rights with continued false claims of fraud, unconstitutional executive orders, and threats to send law enforcement to polling places. So we are glad to be having this important and timely conversation about how we can fight back […]
Wisconsin Examiner | League of Women Voters, Law Forward sue elections commission over absentee counting
The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit Thursday against Wisconsin Elections Commission guidance that bars people who request an absentee ballot from casting an in-person ballot if the mail ballot will not arrive by the time polls close on Election Day. Read More
Democracy Docket | Wisconsin voting advocates sue to protect voters from being disenfranchised by mail delays
Faced with growing concerns about mail delays, voting advocates are asking a Wisconsin state court to give voters a backup option to cast their ballot in person on Election Day. Read More
Associated Press | Wisconsin voters sue to allow for vote to count if absentee ballot is late
Voters in swing state Wisconsin whose absentee ballots don’t arrive by Election Day should be allowed to cast provisional ballots at the polls to ensure their votes are counted, a lawsuit filed Friday argues. Read More
ABC News | System that DHS is urging states to use to assess voter rolls known to return faulty results: reports
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin pressed state election officials on Friday to “scrub” their voter rolls and take other steps to update election security systems, alleging that hundreds of thousands of non-citizens are registered to vote across the U.S. — 250,000 of which the agency claimed came from four states. Read More
The Dispatch | Trump’s Efforts to Impose Federal Authority Over Elections See Mixed Results
After a series of legal defeats that frustrated President Donald Trump’s attempts to overhaul state election procedures ahead of the November midterm elections, Trump doubled down in dramatic fashion. Empowered by the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that upheld his authority to fire independent agency officials without cause, the president last week dismissed two Democratic members […]
Democracy Docket | DHS relaunches voter purge database in 4 red states
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assured a judge in Washington, D.C., that it was shuttering a controversial citizenship database, but would make the tool available to four Republican-led states on a different judge’s orders. Read More