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Waynesboro, VA Board of Elections Ordered to Certify Votes
Release: Today, Waynesboro Circuit Court Judge Paul Dryer issued an opinion requiring Waynesboro Electoral Board members Curtis Lilly and Scott Mares to certify the results of the November 2024 ...
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“How Pennsylvania’s mail ballot rules will lead to thousands of provisional ballots on Election Day”
Overall, about 2.2 million Pennsylvanians have had approved mail ballot applications…. [R]oughly 390,000 mail ballots are outstanding. If Pennsylvania’s 2024 election follows the same trend we ...
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“In Pennsylvania, a race to keep voters from having their ballots thrown away”
The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), draft available: https://papers ...
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“Arizona Official Releases Voter List Sought by Activists After Court Order”
Adrian Fontes, Arizona’s secretary of state, said Monday that his office had handed over the names of hundreds of thousands of voters to lawyers for a right-wing activist group as ordered by a court, ...
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“Thousands of Pennsylvania voters have had their mail ballot applications challenged”
Thousands of last-minute challenges to voters’ mail ballot applications, along with baseless claims by former President Donald Trump about an investigation into suspicious voter registration forms, ...
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“A pro-Trump influencer says a Russian agent paid him $100 to post a fake voter fraud video. It wasn’t the first time”
The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), draft available: https://papers ...
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“Elon Musk’s daily $1 million giveaway to voters can continue, Pennsylvania judge rules”
CNN: A Pennsylvania judge ruled Monday that Elon Musk’s daily $1 million giveaway to voters can continue, in a victory for the tech billionaire and Donald Trump ally. Philadelphia Court of Common ...
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“Georgia Supreme Court halts Cobb County absentee ballot extension deadline | What this means for voters”
Alive: The Georgia Supreme Court halted a ruling that allowed Cobb County to have an extension for its absentee ballots to be turned in, according to a court filing. The new decisions comes after a ...
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“Foreign Adversaries May Try to Undermine U.S. Elections After Vote”
NYT: Russian groups and other foreign adversaries have unleashed an extensive disinformation campaign to undermine confidence in the U.S. election, but there is no evidence that their efforts will ...
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“Scoop: Meta to extend block on new election ads”
Axios: Meta will extend its ban on new election ads for the week leading up to the election until several days after the polls close, Axios has learned. The tech giant informed advertising partners ...
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“Trump wants the presidential winner to be declared on election night. That’s highly unlikely”
Former President Donald Trump is stepping up his demands that the winner of the presidential race be declared shortly after polls close Tuesday, well before all the votes are counted. Trump set the ...
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“Trump Claims ‘Illegal Alien’ Voting Is Rampant. His Own Party Disagrees.”
Unfounded claims about the threat of widespread voting by “illegal aliens” and noncitizens in the 2024 election. Away from the spotlight, though, at least one Republican National Committee official is ...