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Court Victory for Voter Integrity in Mississippi

U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett in the Southern District of Mississippi signed a consent decree to clean up a county's voter registration rolls in response to a lawsuit brought by the (ACRU), a conservative counterweight [...]

Walthall County Agrees to Clear Inflated Voter Roll

JACKSON (AP) -- South Mississippi's Walthall County has agreed to purge the names of ineligible voters from its voter registration roll, including those of any dead people and disenfranchised felons whose names appear. The agreement was filed Wednesday in a consent order in U.S. District Court in Hattiesburg. The sued two south Mississippi counties, Walthall and Jefferson Davis, in April. The lawsuits said the counties both had more registered voters than residents who were at least 18, the minimum voting age.

ACRU Wins Historic Consent Decree for Mississippi County to Clean Up Voter Rolls

HATTIESBURG, MS -- Officials in Walthall County, Mississippi, were sued in April by the (ACRU) under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (commonly called "Motor Voter") for having more registered voters than voting-age-eligible residents. On Wednesday, the parties settled the case. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi entered a final Walthall_County_Consent_Decree.pdf that requires the defendants to clean up the county's voter rolls.

ACLU of Iowa Asks Judge to Block Effort to Remove Ineligible Voters from Rolls

The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa has asked a Polk County judge to permanently block a state rule guiding the removal of ineligible voters from the rolls. The request for summary judgment in the lawsuit against Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schulz is the latest turn in a case that has gone on for nearly a year. If granted, the rule that Schultz's office enacted earlier this year outlining a process for identifying and removing noncitizens from the state voter rolls would be invalidated.

3 Missouri Men Charged with Vote Fraud

ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office arrested three men on Aug. 27 on vote fraud charges. Earlier this year, officials at the Board of Elections contacted St. Louis County police about potential vote fraud. An investigation by St. Louis County detectives led them to the suspects.

3 Set to Plead Guilty in Kentucky Vote Fraud Case

LEXINGTON - A former magistrate and two business owners whose convictions were overturned in a federal vote-buying case plan to plead guilty. The three were among eight Clay County residents convicted in 2010. In overturning their convictions, the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that the trial judge allowed prosecutors to present evidence that was inadmissible. No date has been set for the re-arraignments. Attorneys for one-time Clay-County Magistrate Stanley Bowling and former garbage-hauling business owners Bart and Debra Morris have filed motions saying the three will plead guilty to a charge they took part in a conspiracy to control local politics by means of vote fraud.

Two Somali Immigrants Charged with Double Voting in Minnesota

About 50 men and women packed a Rice County courtroom on August 27 as two Somali women pleaded not guilty to charges of voter fraud stemming from the general election last November. Farhiya Abdi Dool, 38, and Amina A Hassan, 31, each face one felony charge of unlawful voting for voting once by absentee ballot and once at a polling place during the 2012 general election. Each woman faces five years in prison and a $10,000 fine for the offense.

Kansas, Arizona Sue U.S. over Citizenship Issue

Kansas and Arizona have sued the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, seeking a court order forcing it to amend voter registration forms for those states so that people signing up are required to prove they're citizens.