Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. sued Texas on Aug. 22, escalating the battle over voting rights and saying the Legislature was intentionally trying to discriminate against Hispanics when it redrew its congressional district maps and passed a voter-ID law. Read more: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/22/holder-sues-texas-stop-voter-id-law/#ixzz2d6yRm772 Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter
Federal authorities have arrested a former Brownsville woman for allegedly voting five times by absentee ballot under five different names in a Cameron County runoff election in 2012.
An Ohio state lawmaker wants to see early voting cut in half. State Rep. John Becker, a Clermont County Republican, thinks the current 35 days is too long. Becker points out that there are already 13 hours of voting on Election Day and you can vote absentee by mail in addition to the two weeks of in-person voting he would still allow for under his bill. It would not include any weekend voting hours. Democrats oppose the bill. Read more: https://www.buckeyecountry105.com/pages/LocalNews.html?feed=226193&article=11596348#ixzz2d6pCX6f6
MOBILE -- U.S. Postal Service officials have launched an investigation into the mailing of several absentee ballots for the Mobile municipal elections, after a postal worker reported what appeared to be voter fraud. Postal officials questioned the mailing of numerous ballots bearing similar handwriting, as well as multiple ballots from the same voters being mailed almost daily.
A politically polarizing new election law will get its first test run during the Sept. 10 recall elections in Pueblo and Colorado Springs. Same-day voter registration became mandatory with an elections overhaul bill that was signed into law in May. Democrats say allowing voters to register on election day provides greater access to the polls; Republicans say it will lead to rampant election fraud.
As the plaintiffs in the lawsuits filed in federal and state court explained their challenges of the new elections law, advocates of IDs and other revisions worked to bolster their cases. J. Christian Adams, a former U.S. Justice Department lawyer, issued a statement Tuesday that was critical of the NAACP and ACLU, organizations behind two of the lawsuits. "Groups like the NAACP and ACLU have consistently opposed every election integrity measure, and have even opposed any compromises," said Adams. Read more here: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/08/13/4234750/opponents-of-new-nc-voting-laws.html#storylink=cpy
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) on August 12 signed into law one of the nation's most wide-ranging Voter ID laws. The move is likely to touch off a major court battle over voting rights, and the Justice Department is weighing a challenge to the new law.
CORALVILLE, Iowa --- After a couple of "hiccups" getting started, a state investigation into voter fraud is "moving in the right direction" and Iowans will begin seeing results soon, according to Secretary of State Matt Schultz.
Houston County -- An investigation is underway by the sheriff's office into allegations of illegal absentee voting in the Dothan City election in District 2 on August 6.
A former southeastern Kentucky judge and five others have been released from prison until they are retried in October on federal charges that they engineered a vote-buying scheme that stretched across three election cycles.