Attempts by conservatives to purge state voter rolls ahead of the November election, including from Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, are ramping up, prompting concern from the Justice Department that those efforts might violate federal rules governing how states can manage their lists of registered voters.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three bills to combat deepfake election content and remove deceptive material from social media, but two are facing court challenges.
Since the 2020 election, the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force has arrested and prosecuted about a dozen people for threatening election workers. In contrast, experts say actual voter fraud, or instances of people voting improperly, are vanishingly rare.
With an election approaching, the US Supreme Court is being asked again to consider the Affordable Care Act, the landmark 2010 health reform law that has been the target of non-stop conservative legal attack,
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy pledged Thursday that the US Postal Service will undertake “heroic efforts” to deliver all mail-in ballots on time this year and urged people to put their ballots in the mail at least one week before Election Day on November 5.
Two warring factions within the city’s Republican political machine hit a fever pitch. In the run-up to a heated primary election in September 1917, the “Bloody Fifth Ward” was described as a smoldering political volcano, back when now-posh Society Hill was a rough and violent political battleground.
State law allows voters to cast their ballot up to 46 days before the election, but many will chose to vote on Election Day.
Trump shared doctored images showing Swift threw her support behind his campaign, apparently seeking to tap into the pop singer's mega star power to sway voters.