After a 3-2 vote over its own Republican chairman's objection, Georgia's State Election Board asked the DOJ to ban the QR-code ballots the state uses and force a software update before Nov. 3. An election-tech expert warned the changes carry 'a very high risk' and 'zero additional benefit.'
Asked on September 27 about the Trump administration's talk of federal troops at polling places, Georgia's Republican Senate nominee said 'that's fine with me.' A federal law on the books since the Civil War era makes it a crime to bring troops or armed men to a polling place.
A review of more than 300 of Jeff Crank's KVOR radio shows found him claiming a Florida election official 'wants to steal' the 2018 midterms, saying Democrats planned to 'commit ballot fraud' in 2020, calling for votes to be thrown out over a debunked claim, and saying Democrats let migrants in because 'they'll all vote Democrat.'
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Rick Crawford spent months spreading lies about the 2020 election.
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On January 6th, Arkansas Congressman Bruce Westerman hid from the MAGA mob in a locked bathroom, crouched on a toilet holding a ceremonial Civil War sword.
At a September 17 campaign stop, Tom Tiffany told supporters the U.S. Department of Justice is 'coming to Wisconsin for this election.' His campaign couldn't point to anything specific to Wisconsin, as the Trump administration talks about putting ICE and FBI agents near polling places.
Michigan's Republican nominee for governor told Benny Johnson the FBI 'will have a presence' in West and Southeast Michigan leading up to Election Day. Asked about it at a Senate hearing, the FBI director said 'you bet' agents will be there, refused to promise not to interfere in November, and wouldn't say whether Trump lost in 2020.
Missouri's Supreme Court ruled unanimously that citizens can hold a referendum on the 2025 gerrymander. Onder went to federal court to have the November election run under the map the referendum froze.
A federal judge blocked the Postal Service's mail-ballot rule on Friday, finding no evidence of mail voting fraud in the record. Twelve Republican states were in court defending it — and asking to be exempted from the block so the rule could run in their states as a test.