Sylvia Albert, the director of voting and elections for the liberal advocacy group Common Cause said the filings were so troublesome that she believes there are grounds to disbar the attorneys general who made them.

“When you submit something in court, you’re saying: ‘To the best of my knowledge, the information I’ve given you is true and valid,’” she said.

“Without proper funding, guidance and preparedness, the problems seen in previous elections are going to be just the tip of the iceberg this November,” Sylvia Albert, voting and elections director with Common Cause, warned lawmakers during a congressional hearing last week.

Sylvia Albert, national director of voting and elections at grassroots organization Common Cause, tells Bustle that people who want to get involved in ensuring fair elections can sign up to volunteer with Election Protection, which needs lawyers to answer questions via the nonpartisan voter hotline, 866-OUR-VOTE. If you're not a lawyer, you can still volunteer with Election Protection through its nonpartisan poll monitoring program. "Volunteers commit to taking at least one Election Day shift to stand outside of assigned polling location...

If the Supreme Court does someday set limits on partisan gerrymandering, the details of the new standard will affect how quickly challengers can move to strike down a map. Kathay Feng, national redistricting director at Common Cause, said the court could require challengers to wait a few elections to show that one party had obtained a durable advantage. Alternatively, the court could require challengers to show only that the party in power intentionally drew a map to put the other party at a disadvantage. A more aggressive standard like that,...

Aus den diesjährigen Zwischenwahlen haben wir gelernt, dass die Social-Media-Unternehmen noch immer nicht in der Lage sind, rechtzeitig und konsequent gegen Desinformation im Zusammenhang mit der Wahl vorzugehen.

Our disinformation team worked with Election Protection partners to remove Facebook ads.

Die Verschiebung der politischen Macht weg vom einfachen Amerikaner und hin zu reichen Sonderinteressen ist in der Klimapolitik schmerzhaft sichtbar. Die Weigerung vieler Politiker, Maßnahmen gegen den Klimawandel zu ergreifen, lässt sich auf den wachsenden politischen Einfluss der fossilen Brennstoffindustrie zurückführen.

Der Oberste Gerichtshof hat entschieden, dass er parteipolitischer Wahlkreismanipulation keine Grenzen setzen wird. Doch die Gerichte sind nicht der einzige Weg zu gerechten Wahlkreisen. Politiker beider Parteien äußern sich zu dem Thema und kritisieren den Obersten Gerichtshof für seine historisch schlechte Entscheidung.

Am 4. April gingen Aktivisten in über 300 Städten auf die Straße, um die Veröffentlichung des vollständigen Mueller-Berichts zu fordern.

Donald Trump Jr.'s claim that he and the Trump campaign received nothing of value from their meeting with Kremlin-connected lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya is no defense at all.