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A group of legal and political experts Monday testified before the US House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol that former President Donald Trump’s allegations of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election are unsubstantiated. The second day of publicized hearings included testimony from Trump senior advisor Jason [...]

A standing committee of the State Bar of Texas filed a complaint in the District Court of Dallas County, Texas against former president Donald Trump’s attorney Sidney Powell, claiming that she engaged in misconduct by pursuing baseless lawsuits alleging fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The complaint, which was filed on March 1, was released [...]

Two Georgia election workers filed a complaint Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against Rudy Giuliani and One America News Network (“OAN”) for promoting claims that they engaged in election fraud during the vote-counting process in the state of Georgia during the 2020 presidential election. The suit surfaces from an [...]

A Georgia Superior Court chief judge on Wednesday dismissed a case alleging election fraud against Georgia election officials. Supporters of former US President Donald Trump initiated legal action on December 23, 2020, against individual defendants and Fulton County alleging “violations of their state constitutional equal protection and due process rights.” The plaintiffs specifically alleged that [...]

A group of attorneys on Tuesday filed an ethics complaint against Jeffrey B. Clark, a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia, former Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), and former Acting Chief of the Department’s Civil Division. The group said [...]

The Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) held a media briefing on Thursday to discuss the ongoing denial of the 2020 US election results, which ousted former president Donald Trump and ushered Joe Biden into leadership. CEIR’s founder and executive director, David Becker (pictured left), spoke for about 45 minutes about current state efforts [...]

To a U.S. immigrant who grew up (1972-1992) under a de facto dictatorship where election fraud and accepted discrimination were a societal norm, the concepts of fair and transparent elections, “All men are created equal,” and “equal opportunity …” were unfamiliar. They became a substitute of justice for the customary sense of helplessness. I felt [...]

Civil rights groups in Georgia filed another lawsuit against state officials on Monday over SB 202, a voting rights bill that imposes several barriers to accessing the polls. This legislation retaliates against widespread voter registration efforts in communities of color during the 2020 presidential election results, which resulted in record turnout but provoked baseless claims [...]

The New Georgia Project, Black Voters Matter Fund, and RISE, Inc. filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and several State Election Board officials challenging provisions of SB 202, a controversial voting bill passed earlier in the day. The organizations argue that the bill will, “ it harder for lawful [...]

The Georgia state Senate on Monday narrowly approved a bill aimed at repealing no-excuse absentee voting, over a decade after Senate Republicans first voted to enact it. The new legislation, SB 241, seeks to “comprehensively revise elections and voting” within the state. In a 29-20 vote, the Senate limited absentee voting exclusively to: (1) people [...]