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The fight to vote

This series examines the systemic ways that voting rights are denied to so many Americans

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3 October 2024

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  • Voter Purging

    Republicans’ non-citizen voting myth sets stage to claim stolen election

    As some Americans are informed they need to prove their citizenship, Trump and other Republicans are spreading the false idea non-citizens could vote in vast numbers

13 July 2023

  • Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Holds News Conference In Fort Lauderdale<br>FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA - AUGUST 18: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference held at the Broward County Courthouse on August 18, 2022 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Governor announced during the press conference that the state’s new Office of Election Crimes and Security has uncovered and are in the process of arresting 20 individuals across the state for voter fraud. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

    Revealed: Florida Republicans target voter registration groups with thousands in fines

    Fines on list given to the Guardian were levied by agency created at Ron DeSantis’s behest to investigate voter fraud, which is rare

10 February 2023

  • ‘The majority has cloaked its power grab with a thin veil of mischaracterized legal authorities,’ Anita Earls wrote in her dissent.

    Democrat accuses Republicans of ‘power grab’ in North Carolina voting rights cases

    State supreme court to reconsider two recent rulings that struck down state’s voter ID law and congressional districts

28 October 2022

  • An illustration depicts law enforcement officers in tactical gear standing in front of voting booths.

    New US state voting laws present most intense voter suppression threat in decades

    Proliferation of new legislation comes in response to false claims about the 2020 election

22 October 2022

  • People voting at a polling station

    Judge dismisses fraud case against Texas man who waited seven hours to vote

    Hervis Rogers, who drew national praise, was arrested by state attorney general Ken Paxton for voting illegally while on parole

6 September 2022

  • New Mexico commissioner Couy Griffin stands while wearing a cowboy hat in Washington DC.

    New Mexico official first politician removed over January 6 attack

    This marks the first time since 1869 that a court removed an official for participating in an insurrection

1 September 2022

  • Video footage shows the arrest of Byron Smith by Tampa police.

    ‘What’s this about?’: body-cam footage shows confusion as Florida man arrested for voter fraud

    Byron Smith registered to vote after a key amendment, but didn’t know he was ineligible – now he faces up to five years in prison

26 August 2022

  • FILE - Empty poll kiosks await voters at the Mississippi Second Congressional District Primary election precinct June 7, 2022, in Jackson, Miss. The Supreme Court seems poised to take on a new elections case being pressed by Republicans that could increase the power of state lawmakers over races for Congress and the presidency, as well as redistricting, and cut state courts out of the equation. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

    Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era felony voting law is constitutional, federal court rules

    Law passed in 1890 was tailored ‘to exclude the Negro’ but appeals court says tweaks in 20th century ‘cleansed … discriminatory taint’

25 August 2022

  • Election Day voting 2020<br>epa08796177 A voter casts his ballot in the 2020 US presidential election at the C. Blythe Andrews, Jr. Public Library in Tampa, USA, 03 November 2020. Americans vote on Election Day to choose between re-electing Donald J. Trump or electing Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States to serve from 2021 through 2024. EPA/PETER FOLEY

    Floridians charged over voting believed they were eligible, documents show

    Review of court and election papers raises questions about whether the 19 people charged knowingly committed fraud

18 August 2022

  • Election worker stamps a voter’s vote-by-mail ballot before placing it in an official ballot drop box in Florida.

    Florida Republicans targeted Black voters, justice department says in filing

    The agency claims the restrictions, including a ban on providing water and food to those lining up to vote, are racially motivated

5 August 2022

  • Amy Weirich. Earlier this year, Weirich trumpeted a criminal conviction and six-year prison sentence for Pamela Moses.

    Memphis prosecutor who charged Black woman over voting error loses re-election bid

    Amy Weirich stirred outrage for bringing criminal charges against Pamela Moses, whose conviction was subsequently overturned

3 August 2022

  • Mark Finchem, a Republican candidate for Arizona Secretary of State, waves to the crowd as he arrives to speak at a Save America rally Friday, July 22, 2022, in Prescott, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

    Republican candidates who deny 2020 election results win key primaries

    Victories underscore the continued political potency of the stolen election myth, with most significant win in Arizona

6 July 2022

  • A polling place in Tempe, Arizona. There are tens of thousands of voters in Arizona who are only allowed to vote in federal elections.

    DoJ sues Arizona over voting law that requires proof of citizenship

    Measure signed into law by Republican governor in March a ‘textbook violation’ of law designed to protect voters, department says

3 July 2022

  • SCOTUS rules in favor of high school football coach in prayer case<br>epa10037076 A police officer stands outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC., USA, 27 June 2022. The US Supreme Court on 27 June, ruled that a Washington state school district violated the first amendment rights of a former high school football coach when his employment there ended after praying with his students on the field following their games. The ruling on Kennedy v. Bremerton School District was 6-3 along conservative-liberal lines. EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS

    Next up: voting rights, as US supreme court set to tear up more protections

    The ideologically driven conservative majority is likely to further weaken key civil rights legislation after a term of radical rulings

30 June 2022

  • US-POLITICS-UNREST-PROTEST<br>Law enforcement stand guard outside of the state capitol building in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, on January 17, 2021, during a nationwide protest called by anti-government and far-right groups supporting US President Donald Trump and his claim of electoral fraud in the November 3 presidential election. - The FBI warned authorities in all 50 states to prepare for armed protests at state capitals in the days leading up to the January 20 presidential inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. (Photo by Logan Cyrus / AFP) (Photo by LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images)

    US supreme court case could give state politicians huge power over elections

    Nation’s highest court to hear North Carolina case seeking to remove state courts’ oversight of elections for federal office
  • Cleta Mitchell in 2014.

    Republicans seek to install ‘permanent election integrity infrastructure’ across US

    Leading election denier promoting local groups to ‘oversee’ elections and determine if officials are ‘friend or foe’
  • Cleta Mitchcell<br>FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2014, photo, Cleta Mitchell testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mitchell, who advised former President Donald Trump in his fight to overturn the 2020 election, is joining an advisory board to a federal elections agency. Cleta Mitchell was nominated by Republican members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Democrats and Republicans on the commission each appoint a member to the 35-person advisory board for the Election Assistance Commission. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

    Republican push to recruit election deniers as poll workers causes alarm

    Training sessions in battleground states led by activists who claim the 2020 election was stolen aim to influence conduct of elections

15 June 2022

  • Otero county commissioner Couy Griffin at the federal court house in Washington, where he was convicted of entering the Capitol grounds on January 6.

    Republican commission refuses to certify New Mexico primary vote

    GOP claims without evidence Dominion voting machines cannot be trusted, delaying results in rural Otero county
  • Candidates who supported Stop the Steal are running for office in swing states.

    The ‘big lie’ advocates threatening free and fair elections across the US

    The Guardian US is tracking several races throughout US primaries this year – if these candidates win, they could be in a position to overturn elections
  • Jim Marchant addresses a crowd in front of the Nevada Capitol in March 2021

    QAnon-linked candidate wins Republican nod for Nevada’s top elections post

    Jim Marchant has said that he ran for secretary of state at the urging of Juan O Savin, a prominent QAnon influencer
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