Aug 20, 2019 (Raleigh) — Today, the North Carolina State Legislature’s House Rules Committee will take up SB 250, short titled, “Records of Excusals for Jury Duty,” which will require Clerks of Court to share jury excusal and disqualification information with election officials when the jurors’ status would impact their qualification to vote. “We’ve documented …
Aug 13, 2019 (Raleigh) – In a sadly downplayed off-site event today, around a dozen NC lawmakers participated in an eye-opening discussion, led by Dr. Duncan Buell, Chairman of the University of South Carolina Department of Computer Science and Engineering, whose bottom-line purpose of the visit was to advocate for electoral transparency as a means …
Aug 6, 2019 (Raleigh) A measure we deeply oppose, House Bill 851, sponsored by Rep Julia Howard (R-Davie, Rowan) cleared a key milestone July 10, when the House Committee on Elections and Ethics Law approved the idea of delaying the decertification of DRE (or Direct Recording Equipment) voting machines that were first slated for banishment in …
[Note: A few minutes ago, we sent an email to Indiana’s Secretary of State, Connie Lawson, over some concerns we have in the Hoosier State. Given the time-critical nature of this matter, we are taking the extraordinary measure of cc-copying our email to this website and vow to update this page with her agency’s response. …
July 31, 2019 (Raleigh) In response to some reported legislative skepticism over our sense of urgency behind our warnings to fix the Floyd Amendment, we’ve been asked to elaborate on why it’s important to require non-ID voters to provide some form of government-issued personally-identifying information (called P-I-I), such as either a DMV-issued ID card/driver license …
