Regional & State News
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Supreme Court Seems Receptive to Challenge to Post-Election Ballot Counting
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The Supreme Court seemed receptive on Oct. 8 that a Republican congressman should be allowed to challenge an Illinois law that enables the counting of ballots for two weeks after Election Day. Arguments in the case focused on the question of legal standing, as opposed to the merits of the lawsuit contesting the Illinois statute.…
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California’s Orange County to Probe Voter Rolls for Dogs, Cats Ahead of Nov. 4 Election
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Orange County officials have launched an unusual effort to verify no dogs or cats are registered voters, instructing the local elections chief to compare voting lists against animal licensing records in a bid to root out any fraudulent entries. The Board of Supervisors voted on Sept. 23 to expand a review of pet registrations across…
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3.2 Million Inactive California Voters Removed Ahead of 2025 Special Election
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California has removed 3.2 million inactive voters ahead of the 2025 special statewide election, the Secretary of State’s Office confirmed to The Epoch Times in a recent email. The 3,177,057 registration records were removed between 2022 and 2024, according to data provided by the California Secretary of State’s elections division. With a special election on…
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DOJ Sues Maine, Oregon Over Voter Registration Lists
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The Department of Justice (DOJ ) said on Sept. 16 that it is suing Oregon and Maine for failing to provide information on how their election offices maintain valid voter registration rolls. The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division said in a statement that both states had declined to cooperate with the department’s requests for unredacted access…
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North Carolina Agrees to Fix Voter Registration Issues
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North Carolina officials will seek to collect information required under federal law from registered voters under a settlement approved by a federal judge on Sept. 8. State officials acknowledged in the settlement that they were using a voter registration list “that includes records that do not comply with the requirements for federal elections.” Specifically, they…
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Federal Appeals Court Says Pennsylvania Ballot Date Requirement Violates Constitution
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Pennsylvania’s requirement that election officials reject ballots with missing dates violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled on Aug. 26. The requirement burdens the constitutional right to vote, and state officials have not provided enough evidence supporting their argument that state interests outweigh that burden, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of…
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Federal Judge Tosses Election Map Used for Mississippi Supreme Court
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A federal judge ordered Mississippi to revise an electoral map used in voting for state supreme court justices after determining that it violates the federal Voting Rights Act. U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock held on Aug. 19 that the current map unlawfully dilutes the voting power of black voters and violates Section 2 of the…
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Michigan Supreme Court Lets GOP Sue Over Election Poll Worker Parity
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The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled that the state Republican Party and the Republican National Committee (RNC) can proceed with a lawsuit accusing the City of Flint of failing to maintain partisan balance among poll workers during the 2022 elections, reversing lower court decisions that said the parties lacked standing to sue. In a 5–1…
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Trump Refiles Iowa Lawsuit Accusing Pollster and Des Moines Register of Election Interference
President Donald Trump on June 30 dropped his federal lawsuit against the Des Moines Register, pollster Ann Selzer, and related defendants and refiled it in Iowa state court. The new complaint renews his claims that a poll conducted and published shortly before the 2024 presidential election was intentionally misleading and designed to sway voters against…
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DOJ Sues California County Over Noncitizen Voting Records
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The Trump administration has sued California’s Orange County Registrar of Voters Robert Page for allegedly withholding information that could reveal noncitizens were registered to vote. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court, alleges that Orange County undermined voter confidence by “refusing transparency of its voter information in violation of federal voting laws” and “concealing the…
