Alander Rocha, Alabama Reflector Rep. David Cole, R-Madison, was arrested Tuesday afternoon on a charge of voting at multiple or unauthorized locations. Cole, elected to the Alabama House of Representatives last year, was listed in the Madison County Detention Center on Tuesday afternoon. An official at the Madison County Sheriff’s …
Read More »ACLU Accuses DeSantis of ‘Grotesque Abuse of Power’ for Voter Arrests
The ACLU of Florida on Wednesday condemned Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis following the publication of police body camera videos showing sympathetic officers arresting confused people—most of them Black—who believed they were eligible to vote for alleged “voter fraud.” “The body camera footage reveals the real, human impact of these anti-voter …
Read More »States Are Stepping Up Prosecutions For Voter Fraud. But Who Gets The Harshest Punishment?
Barbara Rodriguez This story originally appeared at The 19th. Crystal Mason is waiting for resolution. On Election Day 2016, at her mother’s urging, the Texas woman went to her local precinct to vote in the presidential election. Mason’s name did not appear on the voter rolls, but a poll worker …
Read More »Criminalizing The Vote: GOP-Led States Enacted 102 New Election Penalties After 2020
Kira Lerner, New Jersey Monitor First in a two-part series During the 2020 election, Rhonda Briggins and her sorority sisters spent days providing voters in metro Atlanta with water and snacks as they waited in long lines at polling places. The lines for early voting and on Election Day at …
Read More »Emails From Justice Department Show How Trump And His Allies Pressured Attorney General To Challenge Election Results
Emails from the Justice Department and White House officials show how former President Donald Trump and his associates tried to pressure then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to challenge the 2020 presidential election. Emails released by the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee detail President Trump’s team’s desire for the Justice …
Read More »Florida’s Senate Advances Restrictive Voting Bill That Limits Drop Boxes And Voting By Mail
Florida’s Republican-led Senate has advanced a voting bill that limits drop boxes and voting by mail. The bill would require voters to show identification to an election official before casting a ballot, limit where drop boxes could be located, and prevent anyone except official election workers from handing out food and …
Read More »Trump Lawyer Lin Wood To Run For South Carolina Republican Party Chair
Lin Wood, a personal injury and defamation lawyer who took up President Trump’s baseless election fraud claims in the 2020 election, is looking to become Chair of the South Carolina Republican Party. Wood only recently moved to South Carolina from Georgia about one month ago. “A compelling reason for my …
Read More »Voter Purge In Two Georgia Counties Blocked By Judge
The race to control the Senate is heating up. Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner ordered two counties to reverse a decision that removed more than 4,000 voters from the voting system. Judge Gardner says that the counties improperly relied on unverified change-of-address information to remove voters’ information. The majority of the …
Read More »GBI Audit Found Only Two Mismatched Names In November Election
The Georgia Bureau of Investigations has concluded their signature audit in Cobb County over the November election. Channel 2 Action News investigative reporter Justin Gray spoke with Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Tuesday evening and learned that only two mismatched signatures were discovered out of the 15,000 plus votes …
Read More »Electors Are Being Sent To Congress To Challenge Joe Biden’s Win
President Donald Trump isn’t giving up his re-election bid. According to White House Adviser Stephen Miller, GOP electors from contested states will vote during the Electoral College vote. “As we speak today, an alternate slate of electors in the contested states is going to vote, and we’re going to send …
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