Attorneys for Fulton County, Georgia, asked a State Court to Dismiss a Complaint filed against the County in which Petitioners sought to Unseal 2020 Election Absentee Ballots in Search of Fr… Read More
Georgia Judge has Dismissed Most of a Lawsuit seeking an Inspection of Fulton County's Absentee Ballots from the 2020 Presidential Election.
It's a potential Setback to the Republican-led… Read More
A New Supreme Court Ruling, Upholding Arizona Election Laws, comes as State Lawmakers just Changed One of the Reasons the U.S. Supreme Court, Agreed to Leave those Statutes in Place. Is anot… Read More
New York is making it easier for Voters to Request Absentee Ballots and Allowing Mail-in Ballots, Postmarked by Election Day, to be considered Timely.
Gov. Cuomo (D) signed a host of Votin… Read More
A Federal Appeals Court, on Friday, upheld a Lower Court's ruling that said, requiring Voters to provide their Own Stamps for Mail-In Ballots, and Ballot Applications, does Not amount to an… Read More
Thanks to Richard Winger of Ballot Access News for this post.
On Tuesday, October 12th, the Georgia Secretary-of- State, presented Evidence in State Trial Court, that his Investigators ha… Read More
The Virginia Democratic Party, are Suing the U.S. Postal Service, over Mail Delays, that Threaten to Disenfranchise Thousands of Virginia Voters.
The Lawsuit states Thousands of Ballots, t… Read More
Georgia’s Republican Legislature tightened Absentee Ballot access, including by imposing an Earlier Deadline for Requests for Absentee Ballots, after a Record 1.3 million Georgians Vot… Read More
Ninth Circuit Panel finds Arizona’s Election-Day Deadline to Cure Mail-in-Ballots lacking Signatures, Passes Constitutional Scrutiny
Mail-in-Ballots, in Arizona, must be Returned wit… Read More
A Arizona Voter may correct a Ballot with a Missing Signature by Submitting a Signed Replacement Ballot by the Election-Day Deadline.
A Federal Appellate Court Panel, has Flipped a Lower C… Read More
Voting Rights Advocates, are Pushing for the New York State Assembly, to Approve a Bill that would ensure Voters who Cast Affidavit Ballots, at a Wrong Polling Place, don’t have their… Read More
Texans are ensnared in the Lone Star State's Restrictive New Voting Law, passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature last year.
It imposes a raft of Changes in a State that already had… Read More
Republican State Senators, on Monday, advanced Legislation that would require every Ballot Cast in Arizona's Elections to be counted by Hand, with GOP Proponents who embraced Trump's False n… Read More
The New York City Board of Elections (NYCBOE), said a Vendor Error led to nearly 44,000 Residents in All Five Boroughs receiving a Notice warning their Voter Registration Status was in jeopa… Read More
The Senate, on Tuesday, approved a $107 billion Financial Overhaul of the long-beleaguered U.S. Postal Service (USPS), providing Monetary relief for the Agency that Leaders say will allow it… Read More
Dozens of Rensselaer County Workers, and others, have been served with Federal Grand Jury Subpoenas, as part of an intensifying FBI investigation that's examining the Filing of Absentee Ball… Read More
Harris County, Texas, Election Chief, Isabel Longoria, Resigns as Political Parties demand Answers over fumbled Vote Count. That’s 10,000 Votes from Houston-area Voters. With Counting… Read More
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), signs a Bill establishing a New Investigative Unit focused on Election Crimes, he will also be Banning Ranked-Choice-Voting (RCV).
The “elections… Read More
Legislative Updates
Alabama: The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would make it a crime for state and county election officials to accept money or services from private group… Read More
The Ohio Supreme Court, for a Third time, has Rejected Republicans’ State Legislative Maps, a move that State Legislative Leaders have said, likely will result in a Delay for at least… Read More
The Brennan Center for Justice, recently categorized New York as a State with Restrictive Voting Laws. New York can do better!
2022 PRO-VOTER LEGISLATIVE AGENDA - These are Bills waiting f… Read More
The Brennan Center for Justice, recently categorized New York as a State with Restrictive Voting Laws. New York can do better!
The Following Bills have Passed the New York Senate but stuck… Read More
A Federal Appeals Court has Halted the Final Count, and Certification of Votes, in a narrow Race for Lehigh County, PA, Judge, while Voters ask the Court to Reverse a Lower Decision throwing… Read More
Protects Our Elections and the Right to Vote
As our Democracy faces threats across the Country, and to provide State and Local Election Officials, with a predictable Funding stream for crit… Read More
The Ohio Supreme Court, won’t decide whether a Republican-crafted Congressional District Map, Violates Anti-Gerrymandering Rules, in the Ohio Constitution, until after the May 3rd Prim… Read More
American Democracy is facing Unprecedented tests in our time, many Political Pundits, Election Officials, and Voting Advocates have said. A Majority of Republicans believe Partisan Propagand… Read More
A Total of 24,636 Mail-In Ballots were Rejected, throughout Texas, in the March 1st Primary Election, the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, said Wednesday.
That’s a 12.38% Rej… Read More
Georgia Republicans have a Marjorie Taylor Greene Problem.
A Federal Judge, signaled Friday, that she'll likely allow a Group of Georgia Voters, to move forward with their Constitutional C… Read More
A Federal Judge, on Friday, Dismissed a Lawsuit brought by Colorado Republicans, that sought to Close Primary Elections to Independent Voters.
Senior U.S. District Judge John Kane, found t… Read More
One of the most prominent Voting Rights Cases in years is going to trial Monday, testing Allegations that Georgia’s Election Policies, Illegally Obstructed Voters from casting their Ba… Read More
New York College Students, this November, could have an easier time casting Ballots, under a Provision approved in the New York State Budget this month.
State Lawmakers Approved, Gov. Kat… Read More
The Democratic Party is entitled to Challenge an Arizona Law, that results in GOP Candidates being listed First on most Ballots, a Court ruled Friday.
A Three-Judge Panel of the 9th Circui… Read More
Now that the New York Budget is settled, we need to be sure that our Representatives know how important it is that the Hybrid Voting Machine Ban Bill (A1115), a 2022 Legislative Priority, pa… Read More
This Opinion is by: Josh Blackman, a Constitutional Law Professor at South Texas College of Law Houston, and S. B. Tillman, an Associate Professor at Maynooth University School of Law and Cr… Read More
Two Georgia Election Workers, have reached a Settlement in their Defamation Lawsuit, alleging One America News (OAN) spread False Claims that the pair committed Election Fraud.
Terms of th… Read More
Common Cause has Members and Supporters in every State and each of the 435 Congressional Districts.
Here are some of the latest Dispatches from State Teams across the Country:
California… Read More
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), is pushing State Lawmakers to change the State's Election Law, and allow Candidates on the Ballot to be Removed as she searches for a Replacement to her forme… Read More
Legislative Updates
Florida: Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has signed a bill into law that creates a statewide voter fraud force to respond to allegations of illegal election activity reported by c… Read More
After New York's Higheat Court, the Court of Appeals, threw out the Redrawn Congressional and NY Senate Maps on Wednesday, ruling that the Lines were improperly Approved by the Democratic-co… Read More
Legislative Updates
Florida: The City of St. Petersburg is moving to algin municipal elections with the county, state and federal elections which would provide an early voting option and co… Read More
In Cabell County, West Virgina, there are 54 Absentee Ballots still in play, in the Primary Election.
Cabell County Clerk Phyllis Smith, says the 54 Ballots in question, came in the day af… Read More
A Democratic State Lawmaker in Oregon, is calling for an Investigation into a Ballot-Printing Fiasco that will Delay results from Tuesday’s Primary by weeks, with a key U.S. House Race… Read More
New York State Legislators, are poised to give Final approval to a Major overhaul of Election Rules, meant to Expand access to the Polls and to tilt Legal scales toward Voters.
The Legisla… Read More
Ballot Printing Errors, have Delayed Election Results, for Montana’s New Congressional Seat, forcing a small Northwestern County to Count Votes by Hand in the Republican Primary Race b… Read More
The Supreme Court on Thursday, cleared the way for Pennsylvania Election Officials, to count Mail-in-Ballots whose Envelopes are Missing a handwritten Date, as required by State Law.
The… Read More
The focus of an FBI Investigation that led to the recent Guilty plea of a Troy Councilwoman is shifting to Jason T. Schofield (R), the Rensselaer County Board of Elections Commissioner.
GO… Read More
Business of Cannabis: New York returns to the Big Apple on November 3rd for its second annual conference. Produced by Business of Cannabis, the host of quarterly events and annual cannabis c… Read More
Nigeria's opposition leader Atiku Abubakar took to the streets on Monday to contest the election results, claiming electoral fraud. The electoral body last week declared Bola Tinubu of the r… Read More
The main opposition party in Cambodia, the Candlelight Party, may not be able to compete in the upcoming July 23 election because the Ministry of Interior is refusing to reissue a registrati… Read More
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar has said that technology-driven methods, such as e-postal ballots, should be used to allow eligible overseas Indian voters to participate in elections… Read More
Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, remained calm after President Julius Maada Bio was sworn in for a second term following a contested election. Many residents expressed relief at the peacefu… Read More
Michigan's Attorney General, Dana Nessel, has filed felony charges against 16 Republicans for acting as fake electors for Donald Trump in the 2020 election. The group, which includes promine… Read More
Cambodian authorities are investigating opposition activists who spoiled their ballots in protest against the exclusion of the Candlelight Party from the parliamentary election. Police have… Read More
Police in Cambodia are investigating opposition activists who spoiled their ballots in protest of the exclusion of the Candlelight Party from the recent parliamentary election. One activist… Read More
A Wisconsin judge has ordered the state elections commission to release all records related to a Republican member's role as a fake elector for former President Donald Trump in the 2020 elec… Read More
The incumbent President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared winner of the country’s presidential polls on Saturday, August 26 after securing a majority in a tense presidential… Read More
Gabon's main opposition party has called on the military to complete the counting of ballots from the recent general elections, claiming that the results will show their leader's victory. Th… Read More
Voters in Eswatini, Africa's last absolute monarchy, have begun casting their ballots in legislative elections. The 500,000 registered voters will select 59 members of the lower house of par… Read More
For the first time since North Korea's founding in 1948, residents were given a choice between two candidates in a recent election. The primary election took place in the city of Hyesan, and… Read More
Liberian voters have until November 14 to cast their ballots in the presidential run-off elections. Incumbent president George Weah is leading in votes against his rival Joseph Boakai. Voter… Read More