In Texas, Michigan, North Carolina and elsewhere, federal courts in recent months have struck down one discriminatory voting law after another in a series of major victories for voting-rights advocates.Source: Voting Rights Success? Not So Fast...
Mark Patterson observes that Donald Trump refuses to make the personal tax disclosure that is routinely and without exception expected of senior federal officials.Source: Trump, Taxes, and the Choice of Law or Politics -...
Find our content interesting and worth supporting? Donate to The Center for Public Integrity.Source: How Bernie Sanders beat the clock — and avoided disclosure...
The new procedure comes in response to an increase this election cycle in the filing of registration and statement of candidacy forms (FEC Forms 1 and 2) that provide patently false candidate or treasurer names, questionable contact or bank information, or material that does not relate to campaign finance, such as drawings, essays and personal court records.FEC Adopts Interim Verification...
Donald Trump is getting pro-active about concerns the White House race could be “rigged” against him, by recruiting “election observers” to help monitor the vote, though details of the program are unclear -- and are raising concerns about potential Election Day confrontations.Source: Trump recruiting 'election observers' to scout for fraud...
The tortuous legal fight over the future of Texas’ voter ID law is over ― at least until the November election. “These terms contemplate the formulation of a plan for educating voters and training election workers,” U.S.Source: Judge Orders Texas To Spend At Least $2.5 Million To Not Enforce Its Voter ID Law...
For the most part, voting is a pain. Some people sign up to have a polling place located in the garage of their suburban homes; those folks have it figured out.Source: Yes, Mr. Trump, you do need a get-out-the-vote effort...
After a notable string of voting rights decisions in the past few weeks — throwing out or weakening voter identification and other restrictive voting laws in Texas, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and elsewhere — you might think that the rules are settled for November.Source: As voter rights cases churn through courts, rights are uncertain. But confusion is guaranteed....
Editor's Note: The author is the deputy director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law.Source: Opinion: Protect Our Voting Machines From Hackers...
Did liberals botch their chance to take down Trump by hyperbolically attacking past Republican nominees? Probably, though the GOP is no more innocent. Donald Trump really is different.Source: The Democrats Who Cried Wolf...
