When Sarah Sanders and the ACLU Teamed Up for Voting Rights
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders conducts a briefing on August 15.Ron Sachs/CNP/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. As the midterm elections approach, Republican state officials and lawmakers have stepped up efforts to block students from voting in their college towns. Republicans…
The GOP Candidates for Kansas Governor Can’t Even Agree on Whose Votes Should Be Counted
Kris Kobach addresses a fundraiser at the local senior citizens center in Emporia, Kansas, last year. Mark Reinstein via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly a week later, last Tuesday’s Republican gubernatorial primary in Kansas is no closer to resolution. Just 110 votes separate Secretary of State Kris Kobach and incumbent…
It’s Not Just Kobach: Three Vote-Suppressing Secretaries of State Are Overseeing Their Own Elections
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach talks to reporters the day before the Republican primary in Kansas.Shelly Yang/TNS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tuesday’s too-close-to-call Republican primary election for Kansas governor has plunged the state into an ethics crisis. Secretary of State Kris Kobach emerged with a 121-vote lead over…
New Documents Show Trump’s Election Integrity Commission Was Preparing Report on Voter Fraud Without Proof
Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach at the first meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in July of 2017. Andrew Harnik/AP, File Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s election integrity commission intended to trumpet findings of voter fraud before it…
Pence Stumps for Candidate Who Said He Would Personally Round Up and Deport Immigrants
Vice President Mike Pence at the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas in June 2018. Rodger Mallison/TNS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Vice President Mike Pence campaigned for Georgia gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp on Saturday in the final days of the GOP’s primary run-off. Pence arrived late, coming from…
More Voters Are Being Kicked Off the Rolls, Especially in States with a History of Discrimination
Voters wait in line past the 7 p.m. closing time in a north Atlanta suburb on last day of early voting in Georgia in November 2016.Robin Rayne Nelson via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Voters are being deleted from the rolls at a significantly higher rate than they were…