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The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a bill that would require anyone registering to vote in federal elections to provide proof of citizenship, will be one of the first ten bills considered in the new Congress.
President Joe Biden vetoed a bipartisan bill that would add 63 new federal judges over the next decade, explaining that the bill “fails to resolve key questions” about the allocation of judges and senior status judges.
The newly-elected 119th Congress will be sworn in Friday and the GOP — which has repeatedly targeted voting rights — is set to control both chambers for the first time since 2019.
The North Carolina election board said it won’t order a full hand recount for GOP Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin.
Michigan voters will no longer be allowed to openly carry firearms to polling locations in the state under a new law.
On Thursday, a New York trial court judge struck down the state’s 2022 Voting Rights Act (NYVRA), which was created to make up for deficiencies in federal law following Congress’s 2021 failure to pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act.
Gaetz’s bill will allow states to purge noncitizens from their voter rolls at any time, even during the 90-day quiet period before an election.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) signed a hurricane relief bill into law last week, which allocated $5 million to the State Board of Elections to make accommodations for voters after Hurricane Helene.
Republican and Democratic legislators in West Virginia briefly clashed over a proposal urging the state not to recognize an “illegitimate” election.
A judge in New York today ruled that a state law that aligns certain local elections with state and federal elections in even-numbered years violates the state constitution. Counties and towns with odd-year elections will keep their election schedules.
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