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A federal judge rejected the Republican National Committee’s challenge to a Mississippi election law that allows for the counting of mail-in ballots up to five days after an election so long as they are postmarked on or before Election Day.
Republican attorneys general pose an ongoing threat to democracy as they continue their attempts to weaken the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and more.
The nation’s most conservative appeals court upheld Mississippi’s lifetime ban on voting for individuals with certain felony convictions.
A federal three-judge panel on Tuesday struck down Mississippi’s Republican-drawn legislative maps, finding that certain districts discriminate against Black voters in violation of the Voting Rights Act (VRA).
In a new brief, nine Republican secretaries of state are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take a case out of Pennsylvania pushing the independent state legislature theory, a radical legal theory that could upend American elections.
Over a dozen Mississippi residents with prior felony convictions will be able to vote in this fall’s general election after legislative proposals to restore their voting rights became law on without the governor’s signature.
The Democratic National Committee is pushing back against anti-voting claims in at least four lawsuits brought by the Republican National Committee against election officials.
The Mississippi Libertarian Party yesterday filed a federal lawsuit challenging Mississippi’s mail-in ballot receipt deadline.
The Republican National Committee, Mississippi Republican Party and individual voters last Friday filed a new federal lawsuit challenging Mississippi’s mail-in ballot receipt deadline.
Today, the entire 5th Circuit reheard a case challenging the Mississippi Constitution’s lifetime ban on voting for individuals with certain felony convictions.