Tag: electoral integrity

Wisconsin Voters Sue 5 Cities Over Unlawful Unmanned Ballot Drop Boxes in Elections

Voters in Wisconsin’s five largest cities are suing over the use of illegal unmanned absentee ballot drop boxes in elections. Attorneys from the Thomas More Society, a nationwide public interest law firm, filed the legal complaints on May 25 on behalf of voters in Green Bay, Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee, and Racine. Officials from the affected…


Whistleblower Sues Delaware Over Election Laws That Unconstitutionally Extend Voting Time

An election integrity group is representing a state government whistleblower who claims in a new lawsuit that Delaware is playing fast and loose with state election laws, enforcing statutes that violate the state’s constitution. The Delaware General Assembly passed a law in 2019 that allowed early voting in person at least 10 days before the…


North Carolina Agrees to Release Records Showing Foreigners Voted

Records that show foreigners registered to vote—and actually voted in North Carolina elections—will be disclosed by the state’s board of elections as a result of its legal settlement with an electoral integrity group. The Jan. 31 announcement that a settlement (pdf) had been reached came weeks after Garbant Piquant of Garner, N.C., was arrested and…


Georgia Begins Probe of Illegal 2020 Ballot Harvesting

State officials in Georgia are now investigating allegations that ballot harvesting–a practice that is unlawful in the state—was used widely during the November 2020 general election and the U.S. Senate runoff elections that followed two months later. The allegations originated from good-government group True the Vote, which promises to release other information on voting irregularities…


NC Voter ID Law Challenge Delayed Until Supreme Court Hears Case

The judge in a federal lawsuit on North Carolina’s voter photo identification law scheduled for trial on Jan. 24 has decided to delay the proceeding until the U.S. Supreme Court can decide in coming months whether North Carolina legislative leaders should be allowed to help defend the statute in court. U.S. District Court Judge Loretta…


Group Sues Colorado Secretary of State for Illegally Withholding Voter Data

A good-government group is suing Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold in federal court for refusing to allow the inspection of voter list maintenance records as required by federal law. Griswold, a Democrat, is refusing to allow the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) access to voter list maintenance documents, including data that Colorado receives from…


Group Asks to Intervene in Democrats’ Sue-and-Settle Lawsuit Against Democratic-Controlled Election Board

A good-government group asked a federal court to be allowed to intervene in an apparently collusive Democratic Party lawsuit in Virginia so the group may safeguard electoral integrity protections that the Democrats seek to dismantle. For a half-century, would-be voters in Virginia have been required to provide their Social Security number on their registration application…


D.C. Board of Elections Sued for Keeping Voter Data Secret

A good-government group is suing the District of Columbia in federal court for refusing to allow the inspection of voter list maintenance records as federal law requires. The D.C. Board of Elections claims it cannot provide these voter list maintenance documents because of its contract with the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a nonprofit that…


DC Board of Elections Sued for Keeping Voter Data Secret

A good-government group is suing the District of Columbia in federal court for refusing to allow the inspection of voter list maintenance records as federal law requires. The D.C. Board of Elections claims it cannot provide these voter list maintenance documents because of its contract with the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a nonprofit that…


Arizona Attorney General Hopes Supreme Court Appearance Strikes Blow for Electoral Integrity

Citing the political convulsions America has gone through in recent months, Arizona’s attorney general said he hopes a voting rights case he is arguing before the Supreme Court March 2 will help to generate momentum for electoral integrity measures nationwide. “I think we all should agree at this point that we want to have confidence…