A federal lawsuit claims Georgia’s voter registration process violates the Voting Rights Act and has prevented tens of thousands of people from being able to register to vote – many of them minorities. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Gainesville says a state policy causes voter registration applications to be rejected if the submitted information doesn’t exactly match that in …
Madison County government is a unique place, maybe the only set of offices in the nation where there’s no jealousy, no backbiting, no water-cooler rumors and no intrigue. Amazing for a place that at its foundation is political, right? The county’s standing as a “no gossip zone” is the only conclusion one can reach based on the fact that no one claims to have known what corrupt, disgraced and …
The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging a two-tiered election system that require Kansas election officials to throw out thousands of votes cast in state and local races by people who registered at motor vehicle offices or used a federal form without providing documentary proof of their U.S. citizenship. The class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in Shawnee County District Court comes a …