After a 3-2 vote over its own Republican chairman's objection, Georgia's State Election Board asked the DOJ to ban the QR-code ballots the state uses and force a software update before Nov. 3. An election-tech expert warned the changes carry 'a very high risk' and 'zero additional benefit.'
86% of Americans want members of Congress to stop trading stocks. Republicans glued the ban to a strict voter ID law, so it died in the Senate 53–47 on September 30. Fifteen Republican senators on this site voted to advance the package, and many of them have stock trading problems of their own.
Days after the Supreme Court let the Trump administration resume using its rebuilt SAVE citizenship database, Nevada's Republican governor wrote to the secretary of state urging him to use it on voters in the run-up to November — the same tool that wrongly flagged hundreds of citizens in Missouri and Texas.
Russell Vought's Office of Management and Budget has proposed barring anyone who gets a federal grant from spending it on voter registration drives or 'related activities.' Congress has paid for exactly that work since 2002, so that people with disabilities can vote. The rule would take effect after the midterms — in time for 2028.
Asked on September 27 about the Trump administration's talk of federal troops at polling places, Georgia's Republican Senate nominee said 'that's fine with me.' A federal law on the books since the Civil War era makes it a crime to bring troops or armed men to a polling place.
On September 25, the Supreme Court's six Republican appointees let the Trump administration go back to using its rebuilt SAVE database to check voters' citizenship. In St. Louis County, at least 81% of the 'noncitizens' it flagged turned out to be wrong. The same day, Bloomberg reported a State Department proposal to open Americans' passport files for voter checks.
A review of more than 300 of Jeff Crank's KVOR radio shows found him claiming a Florida election official 'wants to steal' the 2018 midterms, saying Democrats planned to 'commit ballot fraud' in 2020, calling for votes to be thrown out over a debunked claim, and saying Democrats let migrants in because 'they'll all vote Democrat.'
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Rick Crawford spent months spreading lies about the 2020 election.
A proposed Census Bureau rule would drop undocumented immigrants — and refugees, asylees and others here legally — from the count that decides each state's House seats, tie where you 'live' to your tax records, and end race and ethnicity questions. Census staff have been told to halt public events on the 2030 census until comments close on October 13.