It’s a federal crime to send armed federal agents to the polls. So why does the Trump administration keep suggesting it?
“The answer is … Donald Trump wants to, to use his words, cheat like hell,” Marc Elias says.
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⚠️ Trump would not rule out declaring a national emergency to try to take control of the midterms in a recent interview with Time.
And the people pushing the idea claim to have Trump’s ear.
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Election Day is 30 days away, and the fight for free and fair elections is here. In some states, early voting has already begun, and nearly every state has sent out mail-in ballots.
Ineligible votes are exceedingly rare, yet treated as a grave threat to our elections.
But when far more ballots from eligible voters get rejected over technicalities, nobody bats an eye.
And the imbalance works to Trump's advantage.
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North Carolinians are facing a confusing stream of letters warning voters they must update missing personal information by the Oct. 9 deadline.
The mailers are another barrier to voting that makes some voters question whether they should even bother casting a ballot at all.
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🗳️ While Trump has spent his second term pulling teeth to find minute figures of noncitizen voters, a new poll shows the American public has other concerns.
Most Americans say the bigger problem isn’t ineligible people voting. It’s eligible voters staying home.
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If Texas AG Ken Paxton loses his state’s U.S. Senate race and doesn’t accept the results, he will have unusually powerful tools to investigate his own race — even without legitimate evidence of any crimes.
Fortunately, election officials are on heightened alert.
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Trump won’t take no for an answer. Not from voters or the loyalists he’s surrounded himself with.
“He is assuming there will be no one in his administration to tell him no,” Marc Elias says.
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Trump weaponized his administration to chase 2020 election lies — hiring election deniers to find evidence.
And despite wasting enormous federal resources to prove his conspiracies, the effort has come up empty.
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NEW: In a win for Montana voters, a state court blocked a restrictive date of birth verification requirement for absentee voting.
The ruling decreases the likelihood that the mandate will reject ballots cast by those with difficulties getting to a physical polling place on technicalities. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/montana-court-blocks-onerous-mail-voting-law-that-caused-thousands-of-rejected-absentee-ballots-last-year/
What do we do when Congress, the DOJ and even local election offices are stocked with election deniers?
“Frankly, it’s going to be a generational challenge,” Marc Elias says.
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