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Potential voter suppression effects of federal prosecutions and DHS/ICE enforcement in the Somali community in Minnesota.
has clear, named proponents in the Senate — chiefly its sponsor, — who frame the bill as a necessary safeguard for “only American citizens” voting in federal elections and have paired it with a push ....
and progressive advocates describe many laws as racist or racially discriminatory because they say the rules impose disproportionate burdens on Black, Latino, low‑income, elderly and young voters — gr...
The took custody of a and its hard drive in December 2019, investigated and authenticated the data, and quietly warned social‑media companies in 2020 about a possible “hack‑and‑leak” operation even as...
The strictest voter ID laws are those that require a government-issued photo ID at the polling place and force voters without that ID to cast provisional ballots and take additional steps after Electi...
House Republican investigators concluded that personnel warned social-media companies about a potential “hack-and-leak” operation while simultaneously declining to confirm the laptop’s provenance, a p...
and conservative media have repeatedly framed elections as “rigged” by , a pattern documented in reporting and fact-checking of recent cycles, even when courts and audits found no evidence of widespre...
Peer‑reviewed research on and proof‑of‑citizenship laws shows mixed results: several peer‑reviewed articles find small or no aggregate turnout effects, while other peer‑reviewed work and rigorous anal...
Local leaders describe / enforcement in as targeted, politicized and harmful to a broadly law‑abiding community, saying operations have sown fear, disrupted businesses and at times flouted due‑process...
Proposals that force documentary proof of citizenship at registration create additional paperwork hurdles that reduce turnout for some lawful citizens, disproportionately affecting groups less likely ...
has, at minimum, succeeded in consigning the Republican-backed to political limbo in the Senate by publicly labelling it “Jim Crow 2.0” and mobilizing unified Democratic opposition — he has warned the...
Prosecutions alleging have produced a narrow set of legal defenses—most prominently mistake, lack of willful intent, and challenges to the government’s proof of citizenship—and outcomes that overwhelm...
State-level documentary proof-of-citizenship () laws in and produced large, measurable disruptions to rolls: Kansas suspended or blocked tens of thousands of registrations while Arizona’s bifurcated s...
A number of high‑profile Democrats and the have publicly opposed strict on the grounds that they disproportionately disenfranchise Black, Native, elderly, low‑income and student voters and therefore a...
’s Secretary of State treats as a statutory and constitutional eligibility requirement for registering to vote, but the practical mechanism is an attestation on the voter registration affidavit rather...
emerged after the as a prominent election skeptic who has repeatedly alleged in the county, filed mass voter-registration challenges, sought a seat on the county Board of Registration and Elections, a...