Trump Really, Really Doesn’t Want More People to Vote in Pennsylvania
Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In an era of mounting threats to free and fair elections ginned up by Republicans, voting rights experts agree that automatic voter registration is one of the best ways to expand access to the ballot. So when…
North Carolina Republicans Just Passed a Massive Power Grab to Seize Control of Elections
Emory Jones walks past a sign for a polling place on November 8, 2022 in Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States.Sean Rayford/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.North Carolina Republicans on Friday passed a major power grab, stripping the state’s Democratic governor of the authority…
New Report: One-Third of States Have an Election Denier Overseeing Elections
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The 2022 midterm elections were in many ways a referendum on the future of American democracy, and in key states candidates who spread lies about the 2020 election and could have used their power to overturn…
Wisconsin Republicans Are Taking Desperate Steps to Subvert Fair Elections in 2024
Meagan Wolfe, left, and Janet ProtasiewiczMother Jones illustration; AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday, Republicans in the Wisconsin state senate voted to oust the nonpartisan administrator of the state’s election commission, Meagan Wolfe, in a bid to give election deniers and conspiracy…
A Federal Court Ruled That Alabama Republicans Illegally Diluted Black Voting Power. Again.
A map of a GOP proposal to redraw Alabama’s congressional districts is displayed at the Alabama Statehouse on July 18, 2023. Kim Chandler/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A federal court struck down, for a second time, a racially gerrymandered congressional map in Alabama…
Voting Rights Groups Condemn Atlanta’s Verification Process for Cop City Referendum
A canvasser with the Stop Cop City Vote Coalition speaks with an Atlanta resident. Brynn Anderson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Monday, more than 25 of the leading voting rights groups in Georgia—including Fair Fight Action and New Georgia Project, both founded by…