This week: Problematic replacements for a key voter-roll maintenance tool, efforts to hide redistricting-related plans from the public, and an update from our Wisconsin litigation.

Emails obtained by American Oversight show Mitchell using her Election Assistance Commission post to push an anti-voting agenda.

Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who played a role in the effort to overturn the 2020 election, was given a seat on the advisory board of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission in late 2021.

Records from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission in response to American Oversight's request for the calendars of Commissioner Christy McCormick and Commissioner Donald Palmer as well as McCormick's, Palmer's, and Special Counsel Tyler Herrmann's communications with a number of voting-restriction advocates.

American Oversight sued the Election Assistance Commission for the release of communications between select commissioners and known election conspiracy theorists and voting-restriction advocates, including EAC advisory board member Cleta Mitchell. 

Lawsuit filed against the U.S. Election Assistance Commission seeking the release of records requested by American Oversight reflecting board members’ communications with the Heritage Foundation and ‘Big Lie’ advocates. This lawsuit also seeks records related to board member Cleta Mitchel’s possible conflicts of interest.

FOIA request to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission seeking the calendars of Commissioner Christy McCormick and Commissioner Donald Palmer as well as McCormick's, Palmer's, and Special Counsel Tyler Herrmann's communications with a number of voting-restriction advocates.