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.
The bill, which passed the Louisiana House on Thursday, would significantly weaken the state’s public records law by extending the ability of local governments to suppress records of business dealings.
Text messages we obtained, reported on by Votebeat, provide more evidence of how the fringe Gateway Pundit website influenced the state’s 2022 withdrawal from the nonpartisan voter-roll maintenance organization.
Records obtained by American Oversight in its far-reaching investigation reveal the motivations behind states leaving the Electronic Registration Information Center.
The messages are another piece of evidence of how many of the same activists worked together across state lines to undermine trust in 2020 election results.
The lawsuits come as several states have exited the bipartisan voter-data system in response to false allegations from anti-democracy conspiracy theorists.
American Oversight has obtained emails between DHS officials and officials in Louisiana and Texas regarding the unusual agreements signed during the final weeks of the Trump administration.
See the latest in our investigations into outside influence in the judicial nominations process, foreign disinformation campaigns, and Trump administration’s continued meddling with the 2020 census.