News

9/18: Republicans proposed a redistricting plan that they hope would be accepted before the state’s October 30 deadline.

9/17: Southern University System Board of Supervisors vice chairman Rev. Donald Ray Henry is accused of voting from two addresses.

9/17: Jeffrey Hartman was arrested for voting in two different states during the 2016 election.

9/14: Mexican national Laura Janeth Garza was convicted of illegal voting and jailed for 180 days, after which she will be deported to Mexico.

9/14: The state government voted to uphold Governor Paul LePage’s veto of a bill that would have funded ranked-choice voting.

9/14: A judge ruled that the Clean Missouri redistricting initiative was too broad to be included on the midterm ballot.

9/13: Eric Holder’s National Democratic Redistricting Committee will be donating $250,000 to the Voters Not Politicians initiative in Michigan.

9/12: A federal appeals court rejected Democratic challenges to Arizona’s ballot harvesting law.

9/12: A federal judge ruled that Texas’ methods for electing judges to the Texas Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals does not violate racial discrimination laws.

9/12: The New Mexican state supreme court blocked an attempt to reinstate straight party voting.

9/11: The National Republican Redistricting Trust named Adam Kincaid the executive director of the trust.

9/11: A federal task force is helping North Carolina crack down upon potential noncitizen voters in the midterm elections.

9/10: The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission reported that Virginia should clean up its voter rolls and replace its IT systems before the election.

9/10: Secretary of State William Galvin announced his office would be taking over recount and administration issues faced by Lowell and Lawrence Counties.

9/10: Election Integrity Project California reported that even those who chose to opt out of being automatically registered to vote were registered anyway by the California DMV.

9/7: The fight for control of the North Carolina legislature has become a fight over who will control redistricting in the state.

9/7: A Florida judge ordered the state election board to provide sample ballots in Spanish in order to comply with the Voting Rights Act.

9/7: The Alaska Division of Elections said it is investigating how a felon was found on an active voter roll.

9/6: A federal prosecutor allowed North Carolina to postpone the deadline for ICE’s voter roll subpoena until January.

9/6: Bob Gibbs proposed a bill that would require voters throughout the nation to prove their citizenship before casting a vote.

9/6: The Department of Justice has demanded that North Carolina turn over voter rolls to ICE.

9/6: California’s Department of Motor Vehicles reported that over 23,000 voter registrations in California have errors.

9/5: The Justice Department demanded that voter rolls in North Carolina be turned over to immigration authorities.

9/5: Allegations that Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Grimes improperly used voter information have sparked controversy in the state.

9/4: Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill reported that the state had resolved nearly all of the voter fraud complaints received during the 2016 and 2018 elections.

9/4: Crystal Mason was sentenced to five years in prison for voting illegally in the 2016 election.

9/4: East Anchorage has certified its election results, even though voter fraud concerns still plague the Republican primary.

9/4: Republican speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, Kirk Cox, filed an appeal over a ruling that would require 11 districts to be redrawn.

9/4: North Carolina’s 13 congressional districts won’t need to be redrawn before the midterm elections, ruled a federal judicial panel.

9/4: The Democratic governor and NAACP lost their court challenges against North Carolina’s state constitutional amendments, including a voter ID clause.