An informed public,
a strengthened democracy.
As the 2024 primaries begin, we’re monitoring the election denial movement’s impact — not just on voters’ trust in our democracy, but also on decisions about the administration of elections, from the push to abandon a nonpartisan voter-roll system to misinformation about voting machines.
Missouri Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick this week accused Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft — who is currently running for governor — of violating state law by refusing to release cybersecurity reports of local election authorities.
In Cochise County, Ariz., which has become a hotbed for election denialism in recent years, some county officials are attempting to educate residents on how elections are administered, hoping to increase faith in the democratic process, Votebeat’s Jen Fifield reported this week.
Wisconsin Impeachment Panel Records Update
On Thursday, the Dane County Circuit Court in Wisconsin held a status conference in American Oversight’s lawsuit against the once-secret panel of former state Supreme Court justices that Assembly Speaker Robin Vos convened last year for advice on the potential impeachment of a newly elected justice.
Georgia’s ‘Unborn Child Tax Exemption’ Guidance
In July 2022, as abortion-rights opponents sought to capitalize on the previous month’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, officials in Georgia’s Department of Revenue (DOR) were grappling with how to issue guidance on another provision in HB 481, the state’s recent six-week abortion-ban law: an “unborn child” tax exemption.