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NEW: Federal court BLOCKS Dept. of Justice policy of collecting unredacted voter rolls, checking them against federal citizenship databases, and urging states to remove voters flagged as ineligible.
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🚨 NEW: An election denier told her followers to apply for jobs running Maricopa County’s elections — including early voting center supervisor and IT project manager. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Trump has claimed that states are “merely an ‘agent’ for the federal government” and they must do what the president tells them. “Almost nothing in that statement is correct as a matter of law,” Marc Elias says. Keep an eye on the people trying to rewrite the rules: https://demdock.com/4rSKLdE
NEW: Election deniers are mining records to manufacture fraud claims — A Georgia GOP election task force member is projecting 31,000 illegal votes in November, from numbers Georgia’s Republican secretary of state says aren’t accurate.
Tens of thousands of illegal votes could be cast in Georgia, analyst warns
(The Center Square) – Vulnerabilities in Georgia's voting system could allow tens of thousands of potentially illegal ballots to be cast next month by people no longer living at their
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Trump’s DHS sicced ICE on volunteers with clipboards. A year of federal investigations. Hundreds of nonprofits. 82 in Pennsylvania, 41 in New Jersey. They found nothing on a single one — then discussed sending undercover agents to “dismantle” them anyway.
The Trump administration won’t let neutral international observers near the midterms. It’s sending 1,000 of its own Justice Department monitors instead — from a department now hiring people like a man convicted of hacking an election system. Observers out. Theirs in.
A smoking gun document from inside ICE. It shows the agency weaponized against progressive groups that register voters — investigated over and over, cleared every time, then marked for undercover infiltration anyway. While it built a database of nearly 50 million voters.
We obtained records showing ICE’s attempts to silence voters. The Trump-Vance admin should not be using the power of the federal govt to undermine confidence in our elections. But in America, voters choose their leaders. We’ll continue to use all legal tools to expose threats to elections.
OUTRAGEOUS: Trump's DHS thugs spent months digging through more than 150 voter registration groups, came up empty, and still wanted to send undercover agents to take them down.
Trump Goons’ Secret Plot to Infiltrate Voter Groups Exposed
More than 150 organizations have been investigated.
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The theory is that voting machines were rigged to steal 2020, and might be rigged to steal 2026. Somehow they weren't rigged in 2024. "It's not a question that they've ever been able to answer. There's no logic to it, because it is BS."
Election denier Tina Peters was reportedly in the Oval Office Monday to discuss "election security." She was convicted of breaching her own county's election equipment. "Her actions made our last election less secure, not more."
ICYMI: @democracyforward.org President @skyeperryman.bsky.social on Morning Joe, on 166 documents the group obtained through FOIA: DHS and ICE have been collecting records on individual Americans from "unknown sources" — "over 48 million of those records."
ICE's criminal investigations division obtained more than 48 million records from Heather Honey — a right-wing activist who backed Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election. She is now DHS's deputy assistant secretary for election integrity.
Election deniers are helping ICE investigate voter registration groups, docs reveal
Newly published internal documents reveal Trump administration is targeting nonprofits in massive voter fraud probe
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Trump sicced immigration agents on groups that help people register to vote. New documents show ICE's investigators combed through 120+ voter registration groups in PA and NJ and weighed going undercover. ❌ They found nothing.
DHS officials discussed how to deport up to 400 noncitizens in New Jersey who voted in elections after being accidentally registered through a state software error, according to internal government documents made public Wednesday.
ICE officials strategized how to deport 400 noncitizens who voted in New Jersey as a result of state error
ICE officials discussed how to deport up to 400 noncitizens in New Jersey who voted in elections after being accidentally registered through a state software error, new internal government documents s...
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NEW: Internal DHS documents show the department has investigated more than 150 organizations and considered sending undercover agents to “disrupt activities.”
Trump Officials Ramp Up Investigations Into Voter Registration Groups
The Trump administration is investigating nonprofits that it says may be recruiting noncitizens for voter registration, documents show, even though noncitizen voting in the United States is rare.
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"Donald Trump wants to intimidate you. He wants to make you afraid. He wants to give you every reason not to vote." Sen. Cory Booker, asked what he tells people who come to him shaking about Election Day: "Courage isn't the absence of fear. It's stepping up regardless of that."
NEW: Anti-voting lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Sec. Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote.
Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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NEW: Nearly 150,000 California mail ballots were thrown out in June's primary — most for arriving too late. Midterm voting starts TODAY. Don't let your ballot be next. Mail it by Oct. 27 or use a drop-off location. Here's what you need to know:
California early voting starts today. Here’s what you need to know
Californians are voting amid an unusually turbulent fight over how ballots are cast, delivered, counted and protected.
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A convicted election tamperer was reportedly in the Oval Office Monday talking "the plans" for November with Trump. Tina Peters was convicted on 7 counts over a breach of her county's voting equipment. Americans are already voting. Those ballots decide this election.
"People who are serious about election security don't inject chaos in the 11th hour." That's Georgia's secretary of state's office, responding to a letter asking Trump's DOJ to intervene in the state's voting systems — two weeks before early voting.
"He does whatever the hell he wants." That's the GOP chair of Georgia's election board on its own director, James Mills, who sent letters to Trump's DOJ demanding changes to Georgia's voting machines weeks before Election Day. The board never approved them. Fire James Mills.
BREAKING: In a win for voters, a California court sided with voters with print disabilities, finding that the inability of plaintiffs to “independently return their paper ballots without assistance” violates the law. The court will hold a hearing later this month to discuss the appropriate remedy.
In March, Trump said "Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating." Days later he mailed in his own ballot. In July he called mail ballots "inherently corrupt." Saturday he posted a video telling Republicans to vote by mail. Request your ballot today.
Trump Urges Republicans to Vote By Mail After Criticizing Practice
It was the latest mixed messaging from President Trump, who regularly votes by mail, but has made baseless claims that the practice is “inherently corrupt.”
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Tarrant County, Texas has 92 fewer Election Day polling places than in 2022. 224 left. In one ZIP code that's 89% nonwhite, 4 of 5 sites were cut. Voters sued this week to get them back. No ruling yet. Tarrant voters: confirm your polling place now.
Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority communities
The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...
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North Carolinians are facing a confusing stream of letters warning voters they must update missing personal information by the Oct. 9 deadline. The mailers are another barrier to voting that makes some voters question whether they should bother casting a ballot at all: https://demdock.com/4rTwVrB
Monday, Oct. 5 is the voter registration deadline in Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi and Ohio. Not Election Day. Monday. Check your registration today. If you've moved, re-register. Voters pick our leaders. Not the other way around. vote.org
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"You see them trying to make voting harder or intimidating Americans out of voting," Mally Smith of Try and Stop Us said on MS NOW. Trump and his allies are not trying to win the argument on their policies. They are trying to shrink the electorate instead.
38 states and D.C. let U.S. citizens born abroad vote — even if they've never lived here. Democracy Docket reports the administration stripped the guidance that told them so. You still qualify. Request a ballot: fvap.gov
Exclusive: Trump administration removes resources to help U.S. citizens born abroad vote
The move could make it harder for a small but significant group of American citizens abroad to understand their voting rights. It’s part of a sweeping attack by the administration on access to the bal...
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NEW: A Reuters investigation found that a Trump administration lawyer ran a sprawling, multi-agency hunt for evidence the 2020 election was stolen — pulling in the FBI, DOJ, DHS and the intelligence community — and came up with nothing.
How Trump’s obsession with ‘rigged’ voting machines spread across US government
What began with a search for evidence inside a Puerto Rico voting machine grew into a vast quest involving intelligence agencies, election deniers and White House officials. It failed — but Trump dieh...
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