Category: Elections

A Dispute Over Georgia’s Election Machines Resulted in Georgia’s Election Board Inviting DOJ to Investigate, Opening the Door to Election Chaos

A Dispute Over Georgia’s Election Machines Resulted in Georgia’s Election Board Inviting DOJ to Investigate, Opening the Door to Election Chaos

There’s more dysfunction at the Georgia Elections Board. In 2024, election deniers on the board threatened to make “reasonable inquiries” and delay certification of the presidential election. Now, in a dispute over the state’s voting machines, the board’s executive director asked the Trump Department of Justice to “intervene.”
Missouri Voters Block GOP’s Attempt to Change Ballot Measure Rules; State SOS Blocks Nov. Measure Trying to Overturn Legislature’s Racially-Gerrymandered Congressional Map

Missouri Voters Block GOP’s Attempt to Change Ballot Measure Rules;  State SOS Blocks Nov. Measure Trying to Overturn Legislature’s Racially-Gerrymandered Congressional Map

A ballot measure by the GOP-majority legislature to raise the bar for passing citizen ballot initiatives was overwhelmingly defeated in Missouri’s state primary Aug. 4th. The same day, a ballot measure for November’s ballot repealing the state’s partisan and racially-gerrymandered congressional maps was proclaimed unconstitutional by the Missouri secretary of state.