Category: Election Protection

New Federal Lawsuit Challenges Use of Artificial Intelligence in U.S. Elections to Undermine Voting Rights

Following robocalls featuring deepfaked President Biden’s voice urging people not to vote in the New Hampshire Primary, the League of Women Voters has filed a federal lawsuit to block the use of AI technology to intimidate, threaten, coerce, or deceive voters.  MANCHESTER, NH – (March 14, 2024) The League of Women Voters of the United
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Some Anti-Voter Arizona Policies, Leaves Others in Place

On February 29, 2024, a federal judge struck down discriminatory, anti-voter provisions of two Arizona laws, H.B. 2492 and H.B. 2243, passed in 2022 that undermined Arizonans’ freedom to vote and violated federal law. The judge’s order also leaves a few anti-voter provisions intact. At issue in the case were discriminatory provisions of the two anti-voter laws,
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Voter Suppression Trial Wraps Up in Texas

The US District Court in San Antonio heard closing arguments this week in our lawsuit against Texas to challenge key provisions of SB 1, one of the harshest and most sweeping pieces of voter suppression legislation in decades. During the trial, we heard testimony from voters who struggled to vote due to the barriers imposed
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Free Speech For People and Protect Our Votes Philly Identify Violation of the Federal Voting System Certification Requirements as a Cause of the Malfunction of Expressvote XL Voting Machines in Northampton, Pennsylvania Election

On December 8, 2023, Free Speech For People and Protect Our Votes Philly sent a letter to the Northampton, Pennsylvania County Council and Election Commission identifying an apparent violation of a requirement in the federal voting system certification standards. Proper compliance with the requirement should have prevented the County’s Expressvote XL voting machines from mis-recording
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Voting System Software Breach Charged in Fulton County RICO Case is Part of a Multi-State Effort By Trump Allies, According to New Letter to Special Counsel Jack Smith and the DOJ

In a new letter sent on December 4, 2023, to Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Chris Wray, and Special Counsel Jack Smith, the legal advocacy organization Free Speech For People, Black Voters Matter, and a coalition of computer security and election security experts provide details connecting the voting system breach in Georgia to similar voting
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Election Denier Cleta Mitchell Will Not Return to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s Board of Advisors Following Advocacy from Public Interest Groups

WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 29, 2023) – The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights today declared that its seats on the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s Board of Advisors are now vacant, effectively removing Cleta Mitchell, an election denier and former Trump lawyer, from that position. Her two-year term ended on November 3, 2023. The announcement followed a
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Public Interest Groups Urge US Commission on Civil Rights to Not Reappoint Election Denier Cleta Mitchell to Election Assistance Commission Board of Advisors

Cleta Mitchell’s term ends on November 3, 2023, and her involvement in Donald Trump’s actions to overturn the 2020 presidential election are incompatible with the purpose and mandate of both commissions. WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 10, 2023) – Free Speech For People and Generation Vote are urging the US Commission on Civil Rights not to reappoint
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Victory: Court Strikes Down Discriminatory Provisions of Anti-Voter Arizona Law

Washington, D.C. – In a victory for Arizona voters, a federal judge struck down last week numerous discriminatory, anti-voter provisions of two recently enacted Arizona laws, H.B. 2492 and H.B. 2243, that undermined Arizonans’ freedom to vote and violated federal law.  Notably, the U.S. District Court’s decision prevents Arizona from rejecting voter registration forms submitted
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FSFP Senior Advisor on Election Security Susan Greenhalgh Discusses Coffee County Voting System Software Breach on The Ron Show Podcast

FSFP Senior Advisor on Election Security Susan Greenhalgh recently appeared on The Ron Show Podcast to discuss the Trump campaign’s multi-state plot to access and steal copies of voting system software from Coffee County, Georgia, and the lack of a federal investigation into the matter. The following is an excerpt from the discussion: The information
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