Tag: Voting Rights, Registration and Requirements
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Ballot Deadlines Pass in Mississippi Senate Race After Considerable Struggles
The tight race between Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith and her Democratic challenger, Scott Colom, has highlighted the difficulties that stringent elections laws present to voters.
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In Midterm Elections, Voters Backed Democrats but Broke Right on Many Ballot Measures
In some states that elected Democrats, voters also approved measures to restrict transgender athletes, require voter identification and toughen prison sentences.
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Trump Is Playing Up Voter Fraud Prosecutions. Meet Some of the Accused.
The Trump administration’s campaign to identify and charge immigrants in connection with voting violations has led to fears of being jailed, or deported.
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Judge Rejects Trump Officials’ Bid to Set Aside California Ballots
The judge ruled that no immediate action was necessary, dealing another setback to the administration as it moves to target voting by noncitizens.
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Judge Questions Trump Administration’s Need to Target Noncitizen Voters
In the legal tangle between the Justice Department and California, a federal judge on Tuesday deferred a ruling but said the government already had a remedy it could use after the election.
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Appeals Court Declines to Intervene in California Ballot Lawsuit
By a 2-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel denied the Trump administration’s request that it immediately order the state to set aside 20,000 mail-in ballots.
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California Says D.O.J. System for Identifying Noncitizens Is Sloppy
State and local officials said that they received thousands of names lacking key identifying information, and that many of the names were paired with addresses over which they had no jurisdiction.
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Supreme Court Allows Use of Trump Administration’s Expansive Database for Voter Screening
Critics of a citizenship database built by the Trump administration have raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Timothy Mellon, a G.O.P. Billionaire, Pulls Back His Money From Senate Republicans
Timothy Mellon, one of the party’s biggest donors in 2024, has so far withheld his midterm donations for Republican senators because he is unhappy about the failure to pass a key Trump priority.
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Supreme Court Blocks Trump Administration Plan to Screen Mail-In Ballots
The Trump administration had asked the justices to allow a new Postal Service plan to screen ballots just weeks before the midterm elections.