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The simple truth at the root of many false election claims: Voter rolls are imperfect
1 month, 2 weeks ago

The simple truth at the root of many false election claims: Voter rolls are imperfect

NPR  

The simple truth at the root of many false election claims: Voter rolls are imperfect toggle caption Bill Pugliano/Getty Images At the heart of many election conspiracy theories is a simple truth: America’s voter rolls are imperfect. Charles Stewart, an election data expert at MIT, remembers being at a conference 20 years ago where an election official from Belgium was …

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A simple truth is at the root of many false election claims: Voter rolls are imperfect
1 month, 3 weeks ago

A simple truth is at the root of many false election claims: Voter rolls are imperfect

NPR  

A simple truth is at the root of many false election claims: Voter rolls are imperfect toggle caption Bill Pugliano/Getty Images At the heart of many election conspiracy theories is a simple truth: America’s voter rolls are imperfect. “Everybody talks about wanting government systems to all work seamlessly,” said Wesley Wilcox, a Republican who runs election in Marion County, Fla. …

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Virginia Governor’s Voter Purge Rejected On Appeal
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Virginia Governor’s Voter Purge Rejected On Appeal

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Glenn Youngkin’s attempt to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that he was out of line when he purged 1,600 people from voter rolls — which he said was an attempt to keep suspected noncitizens from voting — failed at the 4th U.S. Giles found that this likely violated the National Voter Registration Act’s 90-day “quiet period,” which prohibits sweeping, systematic …

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Trump Is Spreading Lies About Noncitizen Voting
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trump Is Spreading Lies About Noncitizen Voting

Huff Post  

The voting booths were full Tuesday as Kansans turned out for early voting at the Palestine Senior Center in Kansas City, the first day of no-excuse absentee voting. In Alabama earlier this month, a federal judge ordered Secretary of State Wes Allen to stop the deactivation of more than 3,200 supposed “Noncitizens Registered to Vote in Alabama.” Allen’s August press …

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Georgia citizenship audit finds few noncitizens on voter rolls
2 months ago

Georgia citizenship audit finds few noncitizens on voter rolls

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6 facts about false noncitizen voting claims and the election
2 months, 1 week ago

6 facts about false noncitizen voting claims and the election

NPR  

6 facts about false noncitizen voting claims and the election toggle caption Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images This presidential campaign, former President Donald Trump and other Republicans have been repeating the false narrative that Democrats are purposefully letting migrants into the country so they will vote. Sponsor Message Alabama election officials inactivated the registrations of 3,251 individuals on the grounds …

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DOJ Lawsuit Against Alabama Shows How “Noncitizen” Voter Purges Actually Sweep Up U.S. Citizens
2 months, 3 weeks 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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Justice Department sues Alabama saying state is purging voter rolls too close to election
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Justice Department sues Alabama saying state is purging voter rolls too close to election

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit Friday against Alabama and its top election official, accusing the state of illegally purging people from voter rolls too close to the November election. Federal officials said the purge violates the “quiet period provision” of the National Voter Registration Act that prohibits the systemic removal of names from voter rolls …

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Republicans are suing more election officials over voter rolls in several battleground states
3 months ago

Republicans are suing more election officials over voter rolls in several battleground states

CNN  

Washington CNN — Attempts by conservatives to purge state voter rolls ahead of the November election, including from Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, are ramping up, prompting concern from the Justice Department that those efforts might violate federal rules governing how states can manage their lists of registered voters. But part of what you’re seeing with this …

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Oregon Republicans ask governor to protect voter rolls after DMV registered noncitizens
3 months, 1 week ago

Oregon Republicans ask governor to protect voter rolls after DMV registered noncitizens

Associated Press  

PORTLAND, Ore. — Republican lawmakers in Oregon on Monday asked Democratic Gov. Lane County, home to the city of Eugene and the University of Oregon, said its elections office was notified Friday that the DMV had mistakenly marked 11 noncitizens as eligible to vote in the county. The county elections office inactivated their voter registration, and they won’t receive ballots …

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Lawsuit says Alabama voter purge targets naturalized citizens
3 months, 1 week 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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Colorado election officials denounce ‘sham lawsuit’ targeting voter rolls
3 months, 1 week ago

Colorado election officials denounce ‘sham lawsuit’ targeting voter rolls

Raw Story  

Colorado is the latest state to have its election system targeted by a lawsuit from a fringe conservative group repeating debunked claims of widespread fraud. Two Colorado voters and the Missouri-based nonprofit United Sovereign Americans filed suit against Colorado state officials and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in the U.S. District Court of Colorado on Tuesday, alleging that its analysis …

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Are undocumented immigrants voting in US elections? Here’s the available data
3 months, 1 week ago

Are undocumented immigrants voting in US elections? Here’s the available data

CNN  

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. And based on previous activity in the last few years, it’s likely that every single one of those had been recently naturalized.” Ohio In a state with about 8 million registered voters, a recent review of Ohio’s voter rolls resulted in the removal of 154,995 abandoned or inactive voter …

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GOP targets ‘noncitizen voting.’ Experts agree it’s not a problem
3 months, 1 week ago

GOP targets ‘noncitizen voting.’ Experts agree it’s not a problem

LA Times  

Heading into what is expected to be another tight presidential race, Republicans are laying the groundwork for an updated version of the false “voter fraud” claims made four years ago after then-President Trump lost the election. How many people are in legal jeopardy and don’t even know it?” Rep. Darrell Issa took to X to share his critique that “Democrats …

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How Ken Paxton Is Targeting Latino Voters And Political Rivals
3 months, 2 weeks ago

How Ken Paxton Is Targeting Latino Voters And Political Rivals

Huff Post  

Cecilia Castellano is a small-business owner and a relative political newcomer in South Texas. Across the greater San Antonio area, a local mayor, a political consultant and several elderly members of the League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC, a century-old civil rights group, were served similar search warrants last month, all the result of what Paxton’s office said …

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Data indicates voting by noncitizens is rare. Republicans are pressing measures to make sure of it
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Data indicates voting by noncitizens is rare. Republicans are pressing measures to make sure of it

Associated Press  

Only U.S. citizens are eligible to vote in this fall’s election for president and other top offices. Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, a Republican, recently announced that 3,251 people previously identified as noncitizens by the federal government are being switched to inactive status on the state’s voter registration rolls. In Georgia, Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger found that …

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The GOP is making false claims about noncitizens voting. It’s affecting real voters
3 months, 3 weeks ago

The GOP is making false claims about noncitizens voting. It’s affecting real voters

NPR  

The GOP is making false claims about noncitizens voting. It’s affecting real voters toggle caption Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images Earlier this month, Alabama voter William Pritchett received an unexpected letter from election officials telling him his voter registration was made inactive and was “on the path for removal from the statewide voter list.” He was among more than 3,200 people on …

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Republicans sue North Carolina elections board
4 months ago

Republicans sue North Carolina elections board

Raw Story  

Republicans sued North Carolina’s elections board on Thursday, demanding enforcement of a new law that requires cross-checking jury documents to remove non-citizens from voter rolls. The Republican National Committee and North Carolina GOP allege that the North Carolina State Board of Elections has “deliberately declined” to enforce the law. “The RNC and NCGOP defended this law in court, and now …

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Ohio removes 155,000 from voter rolls ahead of November’s presidential election
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Ohio removes 155,000 from voter rolls ahead of November’s presidential election

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio has removed 155,000 inactive and out-of-date voter registrations from the state’s voter rolls ahead of the November election, the state elections chief announced Friday. He had directed county election directors in May to hunt through the voter rolls in an effort he says is legally mandated to remove inactive registrations. “Every Ohioan, regardless of their political …

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A half-million records and one app: The group behind a massive effort to ‘clean’ voter rolls
4 months, 3 weeks ago

A half-million records and one app: The group behind a massive effort to ‘clean’ voter rolls

CNN  

CNN — Police officers in Texas, senior citizens at a nursing home in Pennsylvania and people who had registered to vote at a Marine base in California. “It’s kind of un-American to do that.” Election officials across the country have been inundated with dubious complaints about inaccurate voter rolls, which have wasted government resources and sapped taxpayer money spent reviewing …

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A half-million records and one app: The group behind a massive effort to ‘clean’ voter rolls
4 months, 3 weeks ago

A half-million records and one app: The group behind a massive effort to ‘clean’ voter rolls

CNN  

CNN — Police officers in Texas, senior citizens at a nursing home in Pennsylvania and people who had registered to vote at a Marine base in California. “It’s kind of un-American to do that.” Election officials across the country have been inundated with dubious complaints about inaccurate voter rolls, which have wasted government resources and sapped taxpayer money spent reviewing …

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Tennessee won’t purge voter rolls of people who disregard a letter asking them to prove citizenship
5 months ago

Tennessee won’t purge voter rolls of people who disregard a letter asking them to prove citizenship

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee election officials who sent letters last month to 14,375 registered voters asking them for proof of citizenship now say the recipients won’t be kicked off voting rolls if they don’t respond. The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation informed the state late last month of plans to sue in response to the letters and argued that election …

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Conservative groups are pushing to clean voter rolls. Others see an effort to sow election distrust
5 months, 1 week ago

Conservative groups are pushing to clean voter rolls. Others see an effort to sow election distrust

Associated Press  

Conservative groups are systematically attempting to challenge the legitimacy of large numbers of voter registrations across the country before the presidential election. Here is a look at what’s happening around voter roll challenges: States already must maintain their rolls “Soles to the Rolls” in Michigan, whose name echoes the “Souls to the Polls” get-out-the-vote efforts of Black churches, and Nevada’s …

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House passes GOP bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote, boosting election-year talking point
5 months, 1 week ago

House passes GOP bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote, boosting election-year talking point

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday passed a proof-of-citizenship requirement for voter registration, a proposal Republicans have prioritized as an election-year talking point even as research shows noncitizens illegally registering and casting ballots in federal elections is exceptionally rare. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, a key backer of the bill, said in a news conference earlier this week that the …

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