The report provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the election denial movement led several states to abandon the bipartisan Electronic Registration Information Center — and what it means for voting rights and U.S. democracy.
Sunshine Week provides an opportunity to evaluate threats to public records laws across the country at a time when the fight for accountability is facing increasingly aggressive obstacles.
Documents obtained by American Oversight show how Bobb, a former Trump attorney and far-right television presenter, supported and advised partisan and baseless investigations of the 2020 election results in Arizona and Wisconsin.
Thanks to the lies that the election denial movement has planted in recent years, the potential for chaos and false claims to infect this November’s elections are as alarming as ever.
On the heels of a bill in Kentucky that ignited outrage for its attempt to upend the state’s public records law, legislators in Utah have introduced a bill of their own that threatens access to elected officials’ calendars.
American Oversight’s litigation this week resulted in the Wisconsin Office of Special Counsel acknowledging it deleted documents in violation of the state’s Public Records Retention Law.