Two people who worked as election clerks during the May 2016 primary runoff have pleaded guilty to unlawfully casting a ballot for another person, Harris County Clerk Stan Stanart announced Monday.Source: Two poll workers plead guilty to illegal voting...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Kris Kobach, the author of contentious policies on immigration and voter identification, enters his new role as a leader of President Donald Trump’s commission on election fraud by touting evidence of illegal voting he says he uncovered as Kansas’ secretary of state.Source: Kobach says he won’t pre-judge voter fraud panel’s findings...
As California Democrats wrap up their weekend convention, progressive activists have said loudly and clearly that they want big money out of politics — a position that’s been in the state party’s official platform for years.Source: Political Road Map: Democrats not only dominate California elections, the party is king of campaign cash...
In two weeks the Georgia Republican Party will have a new chairman. Who that will be is a somewhat less pressing question than what a state party is anymore.Source: Opinion: For the Georgia GOP, what is a state party anyway?...
President Trump has hung a map of the 2016 election results on a wall in the White House and hands out copies to visitors. But the map greatly exaggerates the extent of his win. Here's a closer look at the map that he should be promoting insteadSource: Time.com...
WASHINGTON A bipartisan bill introduced on Thursday would prohibit members of the U.S. Congress from ever working as lobbyists after they leave the Senate or House of Representatives.Source: U.S. senators seek lifetime ban on ex-Congress members lobbying...
White House officials are seeking to stop the federal government’s top ethics officer from getting details about waivers granted to lobbyists and other appointees working in the administration, intensifying a power struggle between President Trump and the ethics agency. Walter M. Shaub Jr.Source: Power struggle intensifies between White House and ethics office...
We’ll stipulate that President Trump’s problems with the Federal Election Commission don’t rise to the highest tier of his concerns these days, not by a long shot.Source: It’s not over: The FEC is on the job with messy 2016 reporting by Trump campaign and JFCs...
The Supreme Court will not consider reinstating the 2013 North Carolina voting law that a lower court ruled discriminated against African American voters, the justices said Monday. A unanimous panel of the U.S.Source: Supreme Court won’t review decision that found N.C. voting law discriminates against African Americans...
Democrats got a victory in a voting rights case at the Supreme Court today — but don’t get used to that headline. There are dark days ahead for voting rights. In today’s decision, the Court didn’t actually judge the case on its merits.Source: Despite today’s Supreme Court ruling, the future looks grim for voting rights...
