Oklahoma removes 450,000 from voter rolls as part of election integrity efforts
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt (Republican) announced Wednesday that the state has removed about 500,000 ineligible voters from its voter registration rolls. The state says 453,000 people have been removed from voter rolls since 2021, including 194,962 inactive voters, 143,682 who moved out of state, 97,065 deceased voters, 14,993 double-registered voters and 5,607 felons. “Only U.S. […]
DNC launches voter registration campaign at HBCUs, HSIs
The Democratic National Committee has launched a new voter registration campaign at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) in battleground states, The Hill has learned exclusively. The campaign includes kiosk ads and “I Vote” posters across campuses in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania. The ads explain […]
Speaker Johnson’s funding bill with voter integrity add-on defeated in House; 14 Republicans vote with Democrats
Fourteen Republicans joined Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday. defeat The bill aims to fund the government and avert a government shutdown at the end of the month. The funding bill failed by a vote of 220-202. “The play we executed tonight was the right play. … It's very unfortunate that it […]
210,000 unsolicited voter registration applications sent out in Democrat Texas county in defiance of AG Paxton
Hundreds of thousands of San Antonio-area residents may have received unsolicited voter registration applications this month after county leaders approved the mass mailings over the objections of Texas' Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton. On September 2, Paxton Letter to Bexar County Very Democratic areas of Texas San Antonio has urged city officials to strongly reconsider […]
Obama goes to TikTok to push voter registration
Former President Barack Obama is trying his hardest to grow the Democratic Party's base, including partnering with a popular TikTok creator to appeal to younger voters on National Voter Registration Day. Creators involved in the effort, which reaches more than 30 million people across social media, will be working with Obama to release a video […]
Barack Obama teams up with TikTok influencer for National Voter Registration Day
Former President Obama is reportedly planning to appear on TikTok to encourage voter registration. As Axios reports, President Obama conducted a series of interviews for TikTok with 25-year-old TikTok influencer and nonprofit president Carlos Espina, as part of the Democratic Party's broader effort to reach some 30 million potential voters through non-traditional means on National […]
Harris campaign focuses on youth voters on National Voter Registration Day
The Harris campaign is kicking off a week of outreach to encourage younger voters to vote, coinciding with National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday. Vice presidential candidate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (Democrat) and other key campaign officials will be traveling to battleground states urging young voters to register and vote early or on Election Day, […]
About 1,000 ‘potentially problematic’ voter sign-ups found in Minnesota
Minnesota election officials are making changes to the state's automatic voter registration system ahead of Election Day after discovering about 1,000 potentially problematic registrations. Officials said about 1% of the more than 90,000 Gopher State residents who were automatically registered or preregistered to vote since April when they obtained a driver's license or other state-issued […]
Advocacy groups sue Alabama over voter roll purge
a Litigation The lawsuit, filed by several advocacy groups, alleges that four people in Alabama were unfairly targeted in a voter roll cleanup operation conducted by the state ahead of November's presidential election. of Litigation The lawsuit alleges that Secretary of State Wes Allen's voter removal program, which seeks to remove more than 3,000 voters […]
New Hampshire signs bill tightening voter ID laws for future elections
New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu (Republican) has signed a bill into law that will tighten the state's voter ID law for future elections. The controversial bill would require voters to show proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote, and would also require them to show voter ID before casting a ballot. The law won't […]