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The rightwing group swamping US election offices with records requests

Published: 11:00 AM
Democracy and distrust: overcoming threats to the 2024 US election

Published: 9:00 AM

Trump’s Georgia charges thrust Coffee county in to the spotlight. Its people seek accountability

Frustrated residents of rural county seek answers over officials’ involvement in alleged election conspiracy

Published: 6:00 AM
‘Where’s Celia?’ A conspiracy-addled mob hounds a former Arizona elections official

Celia Nabor oversaw early voting in Maricopa county in 2022 – then an online horde of election deniers decided to hunt her down

Published: 5:00 AM

Wisconsin Republicans vote to fire top election official as denialists tighten grip

State senate moves to oust nonpartisan elections administrator Meagan Wolfe, who became lightning rod for conspiracy theories

Published: 5:19 PM

Minnesota lawsuit seeks to bar Trump from ballot under 14th amendment

Petition argues that Trump’s activities to overturn 2020 election, including those on 6 January, amount to engaging in insurrection

Published: 12:41 PM

‘Uncharted territory’: elections officials weigh Trump’s presidency eligibility

The constitution bars anyone from holding public office if they ‘engaged in insurrection’ – but political vitriol makes it a tough call

Published: 7:00 AM
Republicans threaten to impeach newly elected Wisconsin supreme court judge

Smarting after Janet Protasiewicz’s election to the state’s highest court, Republicans are now changing tack to challenge Democrats

Published: 6:00 AM

DeSantis eyes revoking constitutional safeguard for Florida’s Black voters

The state’s Republican governor is already appealing a judge’s decision to strike down unlawful election maps

Published: 7:00 AM
The states where it’s impossible to vote if you have a felony conviction

While states in recent years have moved away from Jim Crow-era policies, several still make it difficult for people leaving prison to regain the right to vote

Published: 6:00 AM

Federal judges reject Republicans’ redrawn congressional map in Alabama

Court-appointed special master and cartographer will draw new map before 2024 election – although state is expected to appeal

Published: 11:30 AM

Florida judge strikes down DeSantis-backed voting map as unconstitutional

Circuit court judge rules redistricting proposal ‘results in the diminishment of Black voters’ ability to elect their candidate of choice’

Published: 9:15 AM
Wisconsin voters caught in the middle as misinformation takes on education

Keep our Republic aims to educate voters about elections and democracy, while North of 29 pushes widely debunked fraud claims

Published: 8:00 AM

How Alabama is defying the supreme court to discriminate against Black voters

In June, the US supreme court upheld a decision ordering Alabama to redraw its congressional map – but state Republicans ignored the mandate

Published: 7:00 AM
Republican state senators seek new path to unseating Georgia DA Fani Willis

State may become ‘ground zero’ for using a commission to unseat a prosecutor, as lawmakers push back against Trump indictment

Published: 6:00 AM

‘Bring them to justice’: Georgia town residents demand answers in Trump election plot

People from Douglas say accountability is lacking for local officials involved in election machine data breach in 2021

Published: 6:00 AM

He became the first Black mayor of a rural Alabama town. Then a white minority locked him out

For years the mayor in Newbern was appointed, not elected. When Patrick Braxton won the election, the outgoing mayor and his cronies refused to accept it

Published: 11:33 AM

‘Daily horrors are happening there’: dark side of jail where Trump surrendered

Ex-president and co-defendants didn’t see the facility’s dark side, where violence is prevalent and a man died covered in insects

Published: 5:00 AM

Fury at Michigan officials charged in 2020 false electors scheme: ‘This isn’t who we are’

State Republican lawmakers who allegedly signed on as Trump’s false electors in 2020 face anger, prosecution and recall

Published: 6:00 AM

‘It baffles me’: what drew a mild lawyer with a liberal past into Trump’s election plot?

Kenneth Chesebro – low-profile, bright, seemingly decent – is not your average Trump guy. So how did he become the architect of the election subversion scandal?

Published: 6:00 AM

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