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The American Civil Rights Union landed a major victory this week when a U.S. District Judge in the Southern District of Mississippi signed a consent decree to clean up Walthall County’s voter ...

A former U.S. Justice Department attorney is pleased that a federal court has ordered a Mississippi county to clean up its voter registration, which had more registered voters than voting age-eligible residents. In ...

U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett in the Southern District of Mississippi signed a consent decree to clean up a county’s voter registration rolls in response to a lawsuit brought by the American ...

Under a consent decree filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court, dead people who used to live in Mississippi’s Walthall County will no longer be allowed to vote there.

JACKSON (AP) — South Mississippi’s Walthall County has agreed to purge the names of ineligible voters from its voter registration roll, including those of any dead people and disenfranchised felons whose names ...

HATTIESBURG, MS — Officials in Walthall County, Mississippi, were sued in April by the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (commonly called “Motor Voter”) ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa has asked a Polk County judge to permanently block a state rule guiding the removal of ineligible voters from the rolls. The request for summary judgment ...

ST. LOUIS – The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office arrested three men on Aug. 27 on vote fraud charges. Earlier this year, officials at the Board of Elections contacted St. ...

LEXINGTON – A former magistrate and two business owners whose convictions were overturned in a federal vote-buying case plan to plead guilty. The three were among eight Clay County residents convicted in ...

About 50 men and women packed a Rice County courtroom on August 27 as two Somali women pleaded not guilty to charges of voter fraud stemming from the general election last November. Farhiya ...

Kansas and Arizona have sued the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, seeking a court order forcing it to amend voter registration forms for those states so that people signing up are required to ...

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. sued Texas on Aug. 22, escalating the battle over voting rights and saying the Legislature was intentionally trying to discriminate against Hispanics when it redrew its ...

Federal authorities have arrested a former Brownsville woman for allegedly voting five times by absentee ballot under five different names in a Cameron County runoff election in 2012.

An Ohio state lawmaker wants to see early voting cut in half. State Rep. John Becker, a Clermont County Republican, thinks the current 35 days is too long. Becker points out ...

MOBILE — U.S. Postal Service officials have launched an investigation into the mailing of several absentee ballots for the Mobile municipal elections, after a postal worker reported what appeared to be voter ...

A politically polarizing new election law will get its first test run during the Sept. 10 recall elections in Pueblo and Colorado Springs. Same-day voter registration became mandatory with an elections overhaul ...

As the plaintiffs in the lawsuits filed in federal and state court explained their challenges of the new elections law, advocates of IDs and other revisions worked to bolster their cases. J. Christian ...

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) on August 12 signed into law one of the nation’s most wide-ranging Voter ID laws. The move is likely to touch off a major court battle over ...

CORALVILLE, Iowa — After a couple of “hiccups” getting started, a state investigation into voter fraud is “moving in the right direction” and Iowans will begin seeing results soon, according to Secretary ...

Houston County — An investigation is underway by the sheriff’s office into allegations of illegal absentee voting in the Dothan City election in District 2 on August 6.

A former southeastern Kentucky judge and five others have been released from prison until they are retried in October on federal charges that they engineered a vote-buying scheme that stretched across three ...

Dutchess County Democratic Election Commissioner Fran Knapp was back at work a day after pleading not guilty to a 94-count indictment, which follows a pattern of other election officials who have faced ...

RALEIGH — An NBC affiliate TV station says that “only” 121 vote fraud cases from 2012 show that vote fraud is not an issue: “One of the more compelling arguments for voter ...

A Frederick County woman has been charged with illegal voting in the 2012 presidential election, the Office of the State Prosecutor announced Tuesday. Elsie Virginia Schildt, 46, was indicted by the Frederick County ...

Beavercreek resident Virginia McMillan, who was sentenced to 20 days in jail after being convicted in June of election falsification last November, told local officials her intent was to “test the system,” ...

LITTLE ROCK – A judge has sentenced a former east Arkansas legislator convicted of election fraud to three years of probation, including nine months of home confinement. Former Democratic Rep. Hudson ...

Bernard Siskin, a statistical expert who served as a consultant for a variety of government agencies and companies, including the FBI, testified that about 511,000 registered voters in Pennsylvania lack the state-issued ...

MONTGOMERY — Top Alabama officials say voters apparently will have to present photo identification at the polls in the next election. Gov. Robert Bentley, Secretary of State Beth Chapman and Attorney General ...

RALEIGH — Voter identification legislation in North Carolina will pick up steam again now that the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down part of the Voting Rights Act, a key General Assembly ...

Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling partly blocks Georgia from enforcing a law requiring would-be voters to prove U.S. citizenship, Secretary of State Brian Kemp said. In a 7-2 decision on June 24, ...