Category: Election Protection

In a video collaboration with Free Speech For People, Ruffalo calls on state and local election officials to implement best practices to increase transparency and confidence in our elections. WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 29, 2026) — Actor and producer Mark Ruffalo posted a video on Instagram last night , in collaboration with Free Speech For People,
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s order today granting a stay of the injunction issued by the federal district court in Coalition for Open Democracy v. Scanlan is wrong. The Court’s decision grants a stay which both the federal district court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied, blocking an injunction that has
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False claims of widespread election fraud have made it harder to address genuine vulnerabilities in U.S. voting systems, Free Speech For People Senior Adviser on Election Security Susan Greenhalgh said in an interview with WGBH News’s The Curiosity Desk. Greenhalgh called for stronger post-election audits, more reliable verification procedures, and recount laws that allow errors
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We applaud the First Circuit’s ruling today, which blocks the state of New Hampshire’s attempt to suppress further the vote of young people on the eve of the November 2026 election. The First Circuit denied the government’s motion to stay the district court’s October 2 partial preliminary injunction ruling, which correctly allows election workers in
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Background Under New Hampshire’s voter ID law, which has been in place since 2012, voters present photo identification twice: once when registering to vote (along with other evidence of age, citizenship, and residence); and once when they obtain their ballot. The law lists types of photo ID that election officials must accept as a valid
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Open Democracy Sues to Block New Law Barring the Use of Student IDs to Vote in New Hampshire Elections Free Speech For People, Mintz, and Whatley Kallas File Case on Behalf of Open Democracy CONCORD, NH – (August 12, 2026) Open Democracy, a nonpartisan organization committed to political equality, filed yesterday a lawsuit in the
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At tomorrow’s meeting of the Maryland Board of Public Works, Free Speech For People and SAVE our Votes Maryland will ask the Board of Public Works not to approve the State Board of Elections request to commit $109 million for a proposed voting system contract.  The groups oppose the purchase proposal because it would include
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“A preliminary review of the documents reveals what we expected: there is no evidence of vote manipulation in the 2020 election. But these documents also expose what we have been warning about for years – that our election systems are poorly secured, and much can and should be done to mitigate these vulnerabilities.  A newly
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Misleading claims from Bradley Tusk and Mobile Voting Project  The system developed and offered by Mobile Voting Project (MVP), VoteSecure, is not a functioning mobile voting application or system. It is a cryptographic protocol that can be integrated with a mobile voting app. It cannot be used without a commercial, nonopen source, internet voting system
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DENVER, CO — Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled in favor of NAACP Colorado, League of Women Voters of Colorado, and Mi Familia Vota in their case challenging a door-to-door voter intimidation scheme in Colorado. In its ruling, the Tenth Circuit corrected significant errors made by the district court and
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