Showing posts with label voter purge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voter purge. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Trump allies spending millions to dissuade voters in key states from polls

The surge in litigation is exemplified in Michigan, where the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a lawsuit alleging voter rolls are bloated with the names of deceased people and seeking to clean them up – moves that mirror others this year by rightwing groups and the Republican party. 

PILF's Michigan lawsuit was rejected on 1 March by a federal judge who ruled the state is "consistently among the most active states in the United States in canceling the registrations of deceased individuals" and that "deceased voters are removed from Michigan's voter rolls on a regular and ongoing basis"… 

Soon after Pilf's lawsuit was dismissed, the Republican National Committee filed a similar suit in Michigan that Jocelyn Benson, the secretary of state there, denounced as a "PR campaign masquerading as a meritless lawsuit"…

Friday, October 11, 2024

Right-Wing Group Challenges Thousands of Nevada Voters

The Pigpen Project, a right-wing group, is trying to remover over 30,000 voters from Nevada’s rolls. The group challenged the eligibility of voters in nearly every Nevada county over the summer and are now suing election officials for refusing to review the challenges. Marc Elias and Paige Moskowitz discuss the lawsuits and efforts by election vigilantes to remove voters.
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Friday, December 4, 2020

Lawsuit alleges 200K Georgia voters were wrongly purged from registration list | TheHill

... All eyes are also on Georgia for the upcoming runoff races, in which Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) will face Democratic candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock and Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) will go against Democrat Jon Ossoff. The races will determine which party has control of the U.S. Senate.

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Right-Wing Group Aims to Purge 800,000 Voters in Pennsylvania

SIX STATES ARE facing federal lawsuits and threats of litigation from the ultra-conservative nonprofit Judicial Watch that could jeopardize the integrity of upcoming primary and general elections.
https://theintercept.com/2020/05/28/pennsylvania-voter-rolls-purge-judicial-watch/

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Pennhurst and the Voter Purge in Georgia (Opening Arguments podcast OA347)

Today’s episode tackles a bunch of important developments in the new year — and not all of them are even Trump-related! Our main segment features a deep dive into the recent voter purge decision in Georgia and what that has to do with the Eleventh Amendment and the Pennhurst doctrine. We also tackle the latest scare meme regarding 2020 and update you on all the developments in pending litigation regarding Donald Trump. Buckle up, it’s going to be a fun ride! 

We begin with a quick off-the-white-board note about the “$100,000 verdict” in the Alex Jones defamation lawsuit that isn’t what it appears to be.

After that, we take a look at a recent meme that’s circulating regarding 2020. Should you be concerned about the legal implications of writing 1/1/20 on your documents?? Why or why not?

Then it’s time to check in on the status of several pending cases involving Congressional subpoenas, including a decision that’s being mischaracterized as a setback for impeachment (it isn’t), and a bunch of irons that are still in the fire.

Then it’s time for our deep dive into Pennhurst and the recent denial of injunctive relief to Stacey Abrams’s organization dedicated to restoring the voter rolls in 2020 in Georgia. Find out what happened & what’s going to happen next.

After all that, it’s time for a brand-new #T3BE in the New Year: can a bakery tell a flaky flour supplier to go clownhorn itself? Don’t forget to play along via social media!
Interview:
https://openargs.com/oa347-pennhurst-and-the-voter-purge-in-georgia/

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Alarm over voter purges as 17m Americans removed from rolls in two years

US election jurisdictions with histories of egregious voter discrimination have been purging voter rolls at a rate 40% beyond the national average, according to a watchdog report released on Thursday. ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/01/voter-purges-us-elections-brennan-center-report

Friday, May 31, 2019

Texas secretary of state resigns after leading botched voter purge that questioned the citizenship of almost 100,000 people - The Washington Post

Texas’s acting secretary of state, David Whitley (R), resigned Monday just months after leading the botched voter purge of nearly 100,000 suspected noncitizens that erroneously also targeted U.S. citizens, efforts that drew rebukes from a federal judge and numerous voter rights groups...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/28/texas-secretary-state-resigns-after-leading-botched-voter-purge-that-questioned-citizenship-almost-people/

Thursday, July 26, 2018

By the numbers: Inaccurate voter purges are on the rise - Axios

Voter purges are on the rise across the country after the Supreme Court decision in 2013 that invalidated part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, according to a report from NYU's Brennan Center of Justice. The big picture: The Supreme Court invalidated a part of the Voting Rights Act requiring nine states with a history of racial discrimination to obtain federal approval before altering election laws. Since then, there has been a 33% increase in purges. ....
https://www.axios.com/inaccurate-voter-purges-are-on-the-rise-0279b612-98fb-41f7-9299-908197d1fbb5.html







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