Category: Election Protection

Recently the PBS NewsHour aired a segment that highlighted the weaknesses and risks caused by using computerized touchscreen voting machines to record vote selections on a paper ballot – instead of marking paper ballots with a pen, the most common voting method in the country.  The segment featured Dr. J. Alex Halderman, a computer scientist
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WASHINGTON, DC (October 15, 2024) – Free Speech For People issued a letter today to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, demanding that they investigate threatening text messages, identify the source, and promptly take appropriate enforcement action against the perpetrators
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Represented by American Oversight and Caplan Cobb, Free Speech For People sent a letter demanding the production of a public record of an alleged voting system breach.   WASHINGTON, D.C. – October 8, 2024 – Representing Free Speech For People, American Oversight and Caplan Cobb sent a demand letter today to Hall Booth Smith, P.C. (HBS),
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Today, Free Speech For People issued letters to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Georgia Attorney General Christopher Carr, urging both offices to investigate the “Election Crime Bureau,” a non-governmental, extremist organization founded by election-denier and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. The private group recently posed as a law enforcement agency conducting a criminal investigation and
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On September 28, 2024, the federal district court in San Antonio struck down a law that criminalized canvassing by voter education organizations across Texas. Free Speech For People applauds this decision, which comes at a crucial juncture before the 2024 general election. The ruling will protect civic engagement organization employees from criminal sanctions, and will
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Free Speech For People has just released a new short video with a call to action to urge Members of Congress to demand that the DOJ and FBI investigate the multistate plot, by Trump attorneys and allies,  to unlawfully take copies of voting system software and share them with other election deniers. WATCH: The DOJ
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Phoenix, AZ – The U.S. Department of Justice and several voting rights organizations appeared before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday, September 10, 2024, to defend voters’ rights against an appeal by the state of Arizona, two Arizona legislators, and the Republican National Committee, who seek to reinstate a voter
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Tina Peters’ conviction underscores the need for a federal investigation into the multistate conspiracy by Trump allies to breach voting machines and take voting system software. The software taken from Mesa County, Colorado, could be used to try to contest election results. While Tina Peters’ conviction may suggest that the system is holding accountable Trump’s
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As reported in the Associated Press, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in League of Women Voters of New Hampshire v. Kramer before the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire. The DOJ supports the plaintiffs’ right to sue under the Voting Rights Act to challenge the use of intimidating robocalls to
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Trial begins today in NAACP Colorado, League of Women Voters of Colorado, and Mi Familia Vota v. United States Election Integrity Plan; plaintiffs argue that USEIP’s door-to-door intimidation campaign violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 DENVER – Trial begins today in federal court in Colorado to
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