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West Virginia, Missouri and Florida Monday announced they will no longer participate as member states in the Election Registration Information Center (ERIC). ERIC was founded in 2012 as a bipartisan effort to “improv the accuracy of America’s voter rolls and increas access to voter registration for all eligible citizens.” West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner [...]

Myanmar’s military junta Friday announced a new law that restricts the ability of political parties to participate in elections. The new Political Parties Registration Law contains strict provisions, such as requiring parties that wish to take part in the upcoming election to recruit a minimum of 100,000 party members within 90 days and giving the [...]

Ahead of the US Election Day on November 8, Republicans and Democrats filed over 100 election-related lawsuits, according to Democracy Docket, a progressive voting rights organization. 138 lawsuits were filed across the US as of Tuesday. Even as Election Day got underway, additional cases extending polling hours were filed and decided in Georgia and Pennsylvania. [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday that it will send monitors to 24 states in an effort to ensure compliance with the rule of law and federal voting rights in the midterm elections this Tuesday. The announcement comes as civil rights groups warn of potential voter intimidation at ballot boxes. The DOJ monitors [...]

Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the EU and its member states. Here Luisa Gambs, a German law student at the University of Augsburg doing her LL.M. this year at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, offers her perspective on the upcoming US midterms. [...]

This commentary was written just before Raila Odinga filed his Supreme Court petition challenging the announced presidential result of Kenya’s general election.  On 9 August, 2022, Kenyans turned out in large droves to elect the fifth president of the Republic of Kenya, and as in previous elections this one was marked by never-ending drama like [...]

Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Kenya. She reports from Nairobi.  Kenyan elections are like a movie – a really good movie, in fact.  We have the theatrics and the suspense element and our elections have enough plot twists to leave the whole world at the edge of their seats as they wait [...]

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel Monday alleged that her Republican opponent Matt DePerno led a conspiracy to break into voting equipment in Richfield Township, MI. Nessel sent a request for a special prosecutor to step in to continue the investigation due to her conflict of interest.  The request states that DePerno is being investigated for [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Thursday ruled that the state of Maine cannot restrict who can gather signatures in ballot initiatives for state elections, in a voting case that turned to focus on freedom of political speech. The court ruled that a Maine law limiting those eligible to gather signatures for [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the state of Arizona over an election law that requires state residents to provide proof of citizenship in order to vote in presidential and other federal elections. House Bill 2492 was signed by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey in March. The law obliges those voting [...]