Voting rights reporter @guardianus. Formerly @huffpost. [email protected]. @samrlevine.bsky.social
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LaVaughn Williams is a former felon who voted for the first time in Virginia today. Listen to her talk about the power of the ballot
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Inbox: Leon County elections supervisor says Border Patrol vehicles briefly showed up at an early voting site
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JUST IN: A federal judge in California has barred DHS from conducting field interrogations of people they identify as potential noncitizen voters based on data sources that have proven unreliable and could improperly identify citizens. storage.courtlistener.com/re…
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Updated the story with new numbers from the State Board of Elections, which reports "a slight increase in spoiled ballot rates in 2026 (3.1%) compared to 2022 (2.6%) at this stage in each election" (not the doubling Stein referenced) #ncpol
New: @NC_Governor is criticizing what he says is an unusually high number of mail-in ballot rejections, urging voters to instead cast their votes in person "if possible."
wunc.org/politics/2026-10-21… #ncpol
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PSA: Maricopa County Recorder phone line provides incorrect election date. Correct date is Nov. 3.
New: The list of 20,000 non-citizens DOJ provided to Los Angeles election officials includes duplicates, cancelled registration and "high percentage of U.S. born-persons," LA officials say theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
DOJ defends itself in another case filed by January 6 rioter storage.courtlistener.com/re…
DoJ charges 28 green card holders in California over alleged voter fraud theguardian.com/us-news/2026… w/ @SamTLevin
NYPost has revised the headline on the piece quoted here. This morning the headline referred to the arrests as a "voter fraud ring," which is not accurate. Papers filed by prosecutors today offer no evidence any the individuals were part of a "ring" or associated w each other
I’m proud of the work of our @HSI_HQ agents and our @FBI partners on Operation Protect the Vote in California.
American elections are for Americans, and every non-citizen registered to vote and voting in our elections takes away the legitimacy of our republic.
We will continue to root out voter fraud all across America and ensure our elections are free and fair.
There were 174 million people registered to vote in the 2024 presidential election census.gov/newsroom/press-re…
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With the unsealing of cases in California and Pennsylvania today, there's been 169 individuals charged federally for illegally registering or voting as a noncitizen since the start of this administration. There's been 38 new cases in the last four days.
The Trump administration has lost every lawsuit it has filed seeking voter rolls across the country. It is 0-26. 4 were appointed by George W. Bush. Eight of the judges who ruled against the government were appointed by President Trump. projects.propublica.org/trum…
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New: The Justice Department is escalating its fight with California, warning that local officials who tabulate or process ballots from suspected non-citizen voters are at risk of investigation and prosecution, per letter obtained by @AP. More here:
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The US Department of Justice sued California on Thursday, seeking a court order to prevent the state from tabulating certain ballots cast in the midterm elections theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
DOJ reveals in court filing it gave CA election officials 48 hours to verify whether 20k people were non-citizens and should have their ballots counted (exact number was not previously known).
21 days before elex day, DOJ sent LA county a thumb drive it said containing information about non-citizens allegedly on the county's voter rolls. County says DOJ provided no information about methodology and it is not going to touch the drive because it does not consider secure
DOJ gave LA until noon EST tomorrow to review information and threatened "emergency relief" if the county did not comply. LA's skepticism comes as similar claims of non-citizen voters in Nevada have fallen apart. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
After a Republican effort to gain a congressional seat in Missouri collapsed, voters are furious. “Everybody wants to motherfuck the secretary of state,” one voter told me last week in St. Louis. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
New: DNC sues Trump administration over last-minute changes to overseas voting form theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
Tarrant county DA spox confirms they will not ask for rehearing or appeal this decision in any way.
Breaking news: The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, a Black Texas woman who was sentenced to five years in prison in a controversial illegal voting case will end with an acquittal, the state’s highest criminal court said on Thursday. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
Breaking news: The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, a Black Texas woman who was sentenced to five years in prison in a controversial illegal voting case will end with an acquittal, the state’s highest criminal court said on Thursday. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…