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Trump sues Des Moines Register and top pollster over final Iowa survey
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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Trump sues Des Moines Register and top pollster over final Iowa survey

CNN  

New York CNN — President-elect Donald Trump is escalating his legal campaign against media outlets by suing renowned pollster J. Ann Selzer, her polling firm, The Des Moines Register newspaper and its parent company Gannett. The case reflects Trump’s anger at the final Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll of the 2024 election season. And indeed, he did – by a …

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Minnesota Republicans sue to force election rerun in tight House race where 20 ballots are missing
1 month, 1 week ago

Minnesota Republicans sue to force election rerun in tight House race where 20 ballots are missing

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Republicans filed a lawsuit Monday to try to force a rerun of a state House race where the incumbent Democrat won by 14 votes — but in which investigators concluded that election workers probably destroyed 20 valid absentee ballots after failing to count them. “The actions of Scott County elections officials constitute a serious breach of not …

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DOJ Lawsuit Against Alabama Shows How “Noncitizen” Voter Purges Actually Sweep Up U.S. Citizens
3 months, 1 week ago

DOJ Lawsuit Against Alabama Shows How “Noncitizen” Voter Purges Actually Sweep Up U.S. Citizens

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Department of Justice sued Alabama on Sept. 27 for improperly removing from the voter rolls more than 3,200 people the state claims are noncitizens, an expulsion that falls within the 90-day preelection “Quiet Period’ where states are forbidden from purging voter rolls. Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen announced a purge of 3,251 alleged “noncitizens” from …

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Right-wing network Newsmax settles Smartmatic defamation lawsuit
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Right-wing network Newsmax settles Smartmatic defamation lawsuit

LA Times  

Newsmax has settled a defamation lawsuit from voting machine company Smartmatic over the right-wing network’s false reporting on fraud claims in the 2020 presidential election. Smartmatic’s suit said Newsmax provided a platform for its hosts, Donald Trump and the former president’s attorneys and allies to falsely claim that the company’s software was manipulated to deliver the election for President Biden. …

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Lawsuit says Alabama voter purge targets naturalized citizens
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Lawsuit says Alabama voter purge targets naturalized citizens

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Voting rights groups have filed a lawsuit against Alabama’s secretary of state over a policy they said is illegally targeting naturalized citizens for removal from voting rolls ahead of the November election. Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen announced last month that 3,251 people who had been previously issued noncitizen identification numbers will have their voter registration …

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Incumbent Maloy still leads after recount in Utah US House race, but lawsuit could turn the tide
5 months ago

Incumbent Maloy still leads after recount in Utah US House race, but lawsuit could turn the tide

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. SALT LAKE CITY — Results of a recount completed Monday in the Republican primary for Utah’s 2nd Congressional District showed incumbent U.S. Rep. Celeste Maloy still narrowly leads her opponent, who preemptively filed a lawsuit contesting the results. The Associated Press is not calling the race until the resolution of …

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Judge rejects GOP challenge of Mississippi timeline for counting absentee ballots
5 months, 1 week ago

Judge rejects GOP challenge of Mississippi timeline for counting absentee ballots

Associated Press  

— A judge dismissed a lawsuit by the Republican National Committee that sought to block Mississippi from counting absentee ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days after after it. “Mississippi’s statutory procedure for counting lawfully cast absentee ballots, postmarked on or before election day, and received no more than five business days after election …

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Watchdog Group Sues To Bar Trump From Colorado Ballot, Citing 14th Amendment
1 year, 4 months ago

Watchdog Group Sues To Bar Trump From Colorado Ballot, Citing 14th Amendment

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A watchdog group has filed a lawsuit in Colorado arguing that former President Donald Trump should not appear on the state’s ballot because of his 14th Amendment violations. The group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, filed the lawsuit Tuesday in a state district court on behalf of six Republican and unaffiliated Colorado voters who say …

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North Dakota election official challenges mail ballot counting law in Trump-aligned group’s lawsuit
1 year, 6 months ago

North Dakota election official challenges mail ballot counting law in Trump-aligned group’s lawsuit

Associated Press  

BISMARCK, N.D. — A North Dakota county election official is suing the state’s election director to block the counting of mail-in ballots received after Election Day in a lawsuit filed by a conservative group that also brought lawsuits amid former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud in 2020. An election law expert says the Public Interest Legal Foundation …

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Michigan Republican chairperson Karamo, others ordered to pay legal fees for failed election lawsuit
1 year, 6 months ago

Michigan Republican chairperson Karamo, others ordered to pay legal fees for failed election lawsuit

Associated Press  

DETROIT — A judge this week ordered Michigan Republican Party Chairperson Kristina Karamo and others to pay more than $58,000 in legal fees incurred by the Detroit clerk’s office to fight a lawsuit they filed challenging absentee voting in the city. In an order signed Monday, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Timothy Kenny said the Oct. 26 lawsuit in which …

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Explained | Why did Fox News opt to settle with election technology firm Dominion Voting Systems?
1 year, 8 months ago

Explained | Why did Fox News opt to settle with election technology firm Dominion Voting Systems?

The Hindu  

The story so far: Fox News, the U.S.-based conservative news channel, has agreed at the 11th hour before trial began, to pay $787.5 million to settle claims brought by election technology firm Dominion Voting Systems. The Dominion lawsuit claims that during the weeks following the election day in 2020, leading Fox News anchors engaged on their shows with Trump allies …

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I challenged Trump’s coup attempt from the bench. I never expected this.
1 year, 10 months ago

I challenged Trump’s coup attempt from the bench. I never expected this.

Slate  

Justice Karofsky spoke about this experience on this past Saturday’s Amicus—listen to that conversation here. At one point, he tweeted, “The Wisconsin recount is not about finding mistakes in the count, it is about finding people who have voted illegally, and that case will be brought after the recount is over…” Nonetheless, the election was certified by the chair of …

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Judge rejects claims of election violations in Detroit
2 years, 2 months ago

Judge rejects claims of election violations in Detroit

Associated Press  

DETROIT — A judge threw out a lawsuit Monday that challenged voting by absentee ballot in Detroit, saying a Republican candidate for secretary of state failed to produce any evidence of violations. “Plaintiffs have raised a red flag of election law violations and corruption concerning Detroit’s procedures for the November 8th election. They filed a lawsuit 13 days before Tuesday’s …

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Judge denies Rudy Giuliani’s motion to dismiss defamation lawsuit from Georgia election workers
2 years, 2 months ago

Judge denies Rudy Giuliani’s motion to dismiss defamation lawsuit from Georgia election workers

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A judge has denied Rudy Giuliani’s motion to dismiss a …

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As 2022 election looms, Republicans file suit in Michigan to redo the 2020 election
2 years, 4 months ago

As 2022 election looms, Republicans file suit in Michigan to redo the 2020 election

Raw Story  

A municipal clerk in West Michigan who is alleged to have improperly provided a voting tabulator as part of a bogus election investigation is now among a group seeking to decertify the 2020 election and “rerun” it “as soon as possible.” There were similar unsuccessful efforts across the country following the 2020 election that former President Donald Trump lost to …

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Georgia election workers reach settlement terms with OAN
2 years, 8 months ago

Georgia election workers reach settlement terms with OAN

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Two Georgia election workers agreed to settle defamation claims against a right-wing cable news channel, which they said falsely claimed they engaged in ballot fraud during the 2020 election, according to a court document filed Thursday. Fulton County election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss sued One America News Network, its owners and its chief White House …

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Lawyers Who Challenged 2020 Election Ordered To Pay $187,000 Legal Fees
3 years, 1 month ago

Lawyers Who Challenged 2020 Election Ordered To Pay $187,000 Legal Fees

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Two attorneys have been ordered to pay nearly $187,000 in legal fees after unsuccessfully challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election in a lawsuit that a federal judge called “defamatory,” an “abuse of the legal system” and a means to foment violence. In a ruling issued Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter ordered attorneys Gary …

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Judge dismisses Fulton County ballot review case in Georgia
3 years, 2 months ago

Judge dismisses Fulton County ballot review case in Georgia

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit alleging fraud in Georgia’s most populous county during the 2020 election. Henry County Superior Court Chief Judge Brian Amero’s order dismissing the case says the voters who brought the lawsuit “failed to allege a particularized injury” and therefore lacked the standing to claim that their state constitutional rights to equal protection …

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Fox News sued for $1.6bn over false election claims
3 years, 9 months ago

Fox News sued for $1.6bn over false election claims

The Independent  

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House Democrat sues ex-president Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani over role in riot at US Capitol
3 years, 10 months ago

House Democrat sues ex-president Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani over role in riot at US Capitol

Firstpost  

Washington: A Democratic congressman accused Donald Trump in a federal lawsuit on Tuesday of inciting the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol and of conspiring with his lawyer and extremist groups to try to prevent the Senate from certifying the results of the presidential election he lost to Joe Biden. The suit traces the drawn-out effort by Trump and Giuliani …

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New Mexico electors support Biden, as GOP sues to invalidate
4 years ago

New Mexico electors support Biden, as GOP sues to invalidate

Associated Press  

SANTA FE, N.M. — Democratic electors in New Mexico cast their votes for Joe Biden on Monday as the Democratic president-elect cleared the 270-electoral-vote mark to formalize his presidential victory, amid new local protests and objections by Republicans to the voting process and outcome. Trump’s campaign committee filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in New Mexico that accused …

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Trump thought courts were key to winning. Judges disagreed.
4 years, 1 month ago

Trump thought courts were key to winning. Judges disagreed.

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his allies say their lawsuits aimed at subverting the 2020 election and reversing his loss to Joe Biden would be substantiated, if only judges were allowed to hear the cases. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Linda Parker threw out a lawsuit challenging Michigan’s election results that had been filed two days after the state …

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Trump campaign challenges over 100,000 votes in Georgia
4 years, 1 month ago

Trump campaign challenges over 100,000 votes in Georgia

Al Jazeera  

New lawsuit is latest in long line of Trump challenges to US election results, most of which have been thrown out. President Donald Trump’s campaign has filed another lawsuit seeking to overturn United States election results, the campaign announced Friday, this time contesting more than 100,000 votes in the state of Georgia. The new lawsuit, filed by the Trump campaign …

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2 Republicans challenge Minnesota plan for late mail ballots
4 years, 3 months ago

2 Republicans challenge Minnesota plan for late mail ballots

Associated Press  

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Republican state representative and a GOP activist are challenging an agreement to accept mail-in ballots in Minnesota that arrive up to a week after the November election, adding to the nationwide legal fight over voting rules before the presidential election. The lawsuit states the agreement by Secretary of State Steve Simon, a Democrat, violates federal …

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