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#Election-Capture

Events indexed under #Election-Capture — 128 entries in the record.

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2026-11-02DOJ Asks the Supreme Court to Make California Set Aside About 20,000 Flagged Mail Ballots the Day Before the Election 7 src
D. John Sauer · Department of Justice · State of California · Supreme Court of the United States
confirmed
2026-10-30Chutkan Sets a Saturday TRO Hearing on DHS's Voter-Data Policy as the Government Tries to Tie the Case to Boasberg's 7 src
Department of Homeland Security · League of United Latin American Citizens · Electronic Privacy Information Center
confirmed
2026-10-30DOJ's Minnesota enforcement release: 13 defendants, nearly $83 million in intended losses, Medicaid and SNAP 1 src
Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-10-30Judge Thompson Issues TRO Barring DOJ and DHS From Ballot Demands and Prosecution Threats Against Election Officials 9 src
Service Employees International Union · AFSCME · League of United Latin American Citizens · NAACP · +2
confirmed
2026-10-30Ninth Circuit Denies DOJ's Emergency Bid to Make California Sequester Flagged Mail Ballots, Over a Dissent 2 src
Department of Justice · State of California
confirmed
2026-10-29Acting Deputy AG McCotter's Letters Warn State Election Officials of Prison Over Record Preservation, Votebeat Reports 2 src
Trent McCotter · Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-10-29Bloomberg Law: DOJ Leadership Ordered California U.S. Attorneys to Seek Criminal Subpoenas of State and Local Election Officials, Per Anonymous Sources 2 src
Department of Justice · Bill Essayli · Shirley Weber
confirmed
2026-10-29CBS: DOJ Issued Grand Jury Subpoenas to California State and Local Election Officials; Orange County Says One Seeks 77 Registrants' Records 3 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Markwayne Mullin · Trent McCotter
confirmed
2026-10-29New Section 611 Filings in Nevada, Texas and Pennsylvania 3 src
Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-10-29Unions and Voting-Rights Groups Sue DOJ and DHS in N.D. Cal. Over Threats to Prosecute Election Workers 2 src
Service Employees International Union · AFSCME · League of United Latin American Citizens · NAACP · +4
confirmed
2026-10-26DOJ Sends Washington Secretary of State Letter Asking Him to Hold Ballots of Over 400 Listed Voters Untabulated; Oct. 28 Noon Deadline, Else Emergency Relief 11 src
U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-10-26FEC Electronic Filing System Goes Offline a Week Before the Midterms 3 src
Federal Election Commission
confirmed
2026-10-23Judge AliKhan Consolidates the LULAC, NAACP and DSCC Polling-Place Suits for All Purposes Under LULAC v. DHS 8 src
Judge Loren L. AliKhan · League of United Latin American Citizens · NAACP · DSCC · +1
confirmed
2026-10-23Spotlight PA/Votebeat, Oct. 23: DHS Still Has Not Shared Its 14,576-Name Pennsylvania List 1 src
Al Schmidt · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
reported
2026-10-23The Intercept: Fellowship PAC Routed $600,000 Through Bo Hines's Nxum Group to Support Democrats Torres, Goodlander and Warner 1 src
Bo Hines · Tether · Cantor Fitzgerald · Ritchie Torres · +2
confirmed
2026-10-23U.S. Attorneys Serve California County Registrars With Lists of "Likely Aliens" and a 48-Hour Demand; Letters Are in the Court Record 5 src
U.S. Department of Justice · California Secretary of State
reported
2026-10-22DOJ Files Notice of Appeal to the Ninth Circuit in United States v. California, Saying the District Court's Silence on Its TRO Application Is a Constructive Denial 2 src
U.S. Department of Justice · California Secretary of State · Shirley Weber
confirmed
2026-10-21Chief Judge Boasberg Takes Trujillo v. DHS, Sets Oct. 30 Hearing on Superseding TRO Motion Over California Voter Lists; Government Opposition Filed Oct. 26 13 src
Department of Homeland Security · Markwayne Mullin · Todd Blanche
reported
2026-10-21Gov. Sherrill Answers the House Subpoena With a Statement Calling It "Political Theater" 13 Days Before the Midterms 2 src
Mikie Sherrill · Jim Jordan
confirmed
2026-10-21House Administration and Judiciary Committee Chairs Subpoena New Jersey's Acting Secretary of State for Documents on the 6,600 MVC Registrations, Return Date Nov. 16 3 src
Jim Jordan
confirmed
2026-10-21Judge Martinez-Olguin Enjoins DHS Election Field Operations Against Likely Citizens in Nine States, on One Voting Rights Act Claim, Stayed to Oct. 23 10 src
Markwayne Mullin · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · National Nurses United · +1
confirmed
2026-10-21Rep. Thompson Letter Demands Mullin Stop DHS Door-Knocking, Calling It Voter Intimidation 2 src
Bennie G. Thompson · Markwayne Mullin · Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations
confirmed
2026-10-20California Tells Federal Court Its Secretary of State Has Received Grand Jury Subpoenas for Voter Records of About 300 Individuals Since August 2 src
California Secretary of State · Shirley Weber · U.S. Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-10-20DSCC, DCCC and DGA Sue Trump, DOJ and DHS in D.D.C. to Stop Voter-Roll Demands and Threats to Election Officials 14 src
DSCC · Democratic Governors Association · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · +2
confirmed
2026-10-19Empowering Black America PAC's $1.5 Million Anti-El-Sayed Ads Launch; Michigan Public Traces Them to Mercury Public Affairs 1 src
Abdul El-Sayed · Mike Rogers · Mercury Public Affairs
confirmed
2026-10-19Judge Sooknanan Grants Government Motion to Reassign Trujillo v. DHS (California Non-Citizen Voter Demand); Case Was Not Related to Earlier LWV v. DHS 2 src
Department of Homeland Security · Markwayne Mullin · Todd Blanche
reported
2026-10-16All Parties Tell Judge AliKhan Consolidation Is Appropriate in Three D.D.C. Polling-Place Suits Against DHS and ICE 1 src
Judge Loren L. AliKhan · Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · League of United Latin American Citizens · +2
confirmed
2026-10-16DOJ Files Notice of Appeal and Motion for Stay Pending Appeal of Sooknanan's Voter List Maintenance Vacatur in Common Cause v. DOJ 4 src
Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan · Department of Justice · Todd Blanche · Common Cause
confirmed
2026-10-16DOJ's McCotter Writes LA County Counsel That Knowingly Tabulating Ballots of Voters Federal Agencies Flag as Noncitizens Risks Aiding and Abetting a Federal Crime 2 src
Trent McCotter · U.S. Department of Justice · Dean Logan · Shirley Weber
confirmed
2026-10-16Essayli Posts on X That the 20,000 California Names Are "Noncitizens Confirmed by a Review of Federal Databases," a Day After DOJ Called the Analysis Preliminary 1 src
Bill Essayli
confirmed
2026-10-16Judge Sooknanan Rules LWV/EPIC/LULAC v. DHS Voter-Data Suit Is Not Related to Trujillo; Case Randomly Reassigned to Judge Chutkan 2 src
League of Women Voters · Electronic Privacy Information Center · League of United Latin American Citizens · Department of Homeland Security
reported
2026-10-16NAACP Sues Blanche, Dhillon and DOJ in D.D.C. Under Voting Rights Act Section 11(b) and the APA Over the "Poll Monitoring Program," Seeking to Bar Prosecutors and Agents From Serving as Monitors 8 src
NAACP · Todd Blanche · Harmeet Dhillon
confirmed
2026-10-16NAACP v. DHS: Plaintiffs' Reply Says Government Does Not Deny the Two Requested DHS Directives Exist; Opposition Does Not Say They Do 2 src
Judge Loren L. AliKhan · Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · NAACP
reported
2026-10-16Trump Posts "They Will All Go to Jail for a Long Period of Time!!!" on Truth Social Alongside DOJ's LA County Ballot Letter 2 src
Donald Trump · Trent McCotter · U.S. Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-10-15DOJ Press Release on California Suit Quotes DHS Secretary Mullin Calling the 20,000-Name Analysis "Preliminary" and the Review "Ongoing" 2 src
Markwayne Mullin · Todd Blanche · Trent McCotter · Bill Essayli · +2
confirmed
2026-10-15DOJ Sues California, Weber and LA County's Logan in C.D. Cal. to Bar Tabulating Mail Ballots of Over 20,000 Voters DHS Flags as Likely Noncitizens 2 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Shirley Weber · Dean Logan · R. Trent McCotter · +1
confirmed
2026-10-15League of Women Voters, EPIC and LULAC Sue DHS Over Voter-Data Collection Policy; Complaint Alleges Voter Files From At Least 47 States 4 src
League of Women Voters · Electronic Privacy Information Center · League of United Latin American Citizens · Department of Homeland Security · +3
confirmed
2026-10-15Nevada's Aguilar Tells a Las Vegas TV Station: DHS Worksheet of About 6,400 Had No Names, and DHS Declined in Writing to Add Them 1 src
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
reported
2026-10-14DNC's Joint Status Report in Its FOIA Suit Calls McCotter's California Letter a Plausible Threat of Warrant-Based Ballot Seizure; Criminal Division Reported No Responsive Records 3 src
Trent McCotter · Democratic National Committee · U.S. Department of Justice
reported
2026-10-13DOJ Letters Give California 48 Hours on 'Likely Noncitizen' Voter List, Demand LA County Segregate Ballots 4 src
U.S. Department of Justice · R. Trent McCotter · Shirley Weber · Dean Logan
confirmed
2026-10-13North Carolina Board Says It Will Mail 1,392 Voters Flagged From DHS's 1,599-Name SAVE List 2 src
North Carolina State Board of Elections · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-10-09Judge AliKhan Contemplates Consolidating the LULAC, NAACP and DSCC Polling-Place Suits; LULAC Amends Its Complaint to Add DOJ and the FBI 2 src
League of United Latin American Citizens · NAACP · DSCC · Department of Homeland Security · +4
confirmed
2026-10-09Judge Sooknanan Vacates DOJ's Voter List Maintenance Policy in Common Cause v. DOJ: Vacatur Only, With No Order on Data Already Transferred 3 src
Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan · Department of Justice · Department of Justice Civil Rights Division · Homeland Security Investigations · +2
reported
2026-10-09PBS Obtains Revised DOJ Hatch Act Memo That Exempts Senate-Confirmed Appointees, Including Blanche, From "Further Restricted" Rules; Blanche Has Spoken at GOP Events 2 src
Todd Blanche · Pam Bondi
confirmed
2026-10-08NAACP v. DHS: Plaintiffs Seek Expedited Discovery on Armed Agents Near Polls; Judge AliKhan Sets Briefing, No Ruling 2 src
NAACP · Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations
confirmed
2026-10-08Reps. Bacon and Gottheimer Ask House Colleagues to Pledge to Accept the Election Results and Oppose Efforts to Block Seating Members 1 src
Don Bacon · Brian Fitzpatrick · Mike Lawler
confirmed
2026-10-07Democracy Forward Publishes ICE's 166-Page FOIA Production of HSI Voter-Fraud Reports, With a Minnesota Report Listing Whipple Shield 5 src
Democracy Forward · Homeland Security Investigations · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-10-07DOJ Tells the Eighth Circuit It Intends to Resume Using SAVE After the Supreme Court's Stay, in the Minnesota Voter-Roll Appeal 1 src
Department of Justice Civil Rights Division · Supreme Court of the United States
confirmed
2026-10-07LULAC Amended Complaint Alleges ICE Detained a Person Beside an Active Santa Maria Ballot Drop Box; Hennepin County Is a Plaintiff 2 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · League of United Latin American Citizens · City and County of Denver
confirmed
2026-10-07Section 611 Filings: Alabama Complaint Affidavits and an HSI Philadelphia Arrest-Warrant Affidavit 2 src
Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations
confirmed
2026-10-06Center for Renewing America Primer Urges the House to Decline to Administer the Oath to Members-Elect It Finds Committed to Destroying the Constitutional Order 3 src
Russell Vought
confirmed
2026-10-06Democracy Docket: DOJ Email Listed David Levin, a Florida Lawyer Convicted in 2016 of Hacking Election Websites, Among Its Maricopa County Election Observers 3 src
Harmeet Dhillon · U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
reported
2026-10-02NAACP Sues Dhillon in D.D.C. Under FOIA and Mandamus for Records on DOJ Election Monitors, Including Their "Legal Authority, If Any" 3 src
NAACP · Harmeet Dhillon · Civil Rights Division · Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan
confirmed
2026-10-02Polling-Place FOIA Suit Winds Down: DHS Withholds a 12-Page Record in Full, ICE Sends Its Final Response, and the DNC Will Not Challenge the Searches 3 src
Democratic National Committee · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +1
confirmed
2026-10-01ICE's Lyons Tells Colorado's Secretary of State There Is 'No Reason' for ICE at Polling Places, and That HSI 'Will Continue' Investigating Voter Fraud 1 src
Todd Lyons · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Homeland Security Investigations · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-09-30Kurt Olsen Steps Off DOJ's Florida "Grand Conspiracy" Case but Stays on DOJ Payroll; Blanche Says He "Has Not Resigned" 2 src
Todd Blanche · Joseph DiGenova · Maria Medetis Long
confirmed
2026-09-28In a TIME Interview, Trump Answers "Haven't Thought of It" on ICE at Polling Places and "I Don't Rule Anything Out or In" on a Pre-Midterm Emergency 1 src
Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-09-28In California Nurses v. Mullin, the Government Says HSI Chose to Surge Voter-Fraud Investigations After USCIS Leads 2 src
Homeland Security Investigations · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Markwayne Mullin
reported
2026-09-23Democracy Docket Reports Judge Kollar-Kotelly Rejected DOJ's Bid to Delay Its Answer in the DNC FOIA Suit Over Plans to Seize Ballots 2 src
Department of Justice · Democratic National Committee · Colleen Kollar-Kotelly · Paula Xinis
confirmed
2026-09-23DSCC, DCCC, DGA, Schumer and Jeffries Sue to Bar Armed Federal Agents From November Polling Places 2 src
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee · Democratic Governors Association · Chuck Schumer · Hakeem Jeffries · +1
confirmed
2026-09-23Nevada Official Tells DHS 'Our Records Indicate That They Were Citizens' for 185 Flagged Voters 2 src
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-09-23Reuters Review: DOJ Has Charged About 20 People This Month Under the "Voting by Aliens" Statute, Roughly 13% of All Prosecutions Under It; DOJ Spokesperson Counts 32 in Four Weeks 1 src
Todd Blanche · Trent McCotter · Ken Paxton · Department of Homeland Security · +1
confirmed
2026-09-23Votebeat: Texas Counties Receiving Tens of Thousands of Unprocessed Voter Registration Applications After a DPS Error, Some Dating to October 2025 1 srcreported
2026-09-22Hegseth Memo Orders Cyber Command and Defense Intelligence Enterprise to Counter Foreign Threats to the Midterms 2 src
Pete Hegseth · National Security Agency · Defense Intelligence Agency · National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · +1
confirmed
2026-09-19Newsom Signs SB 884 'Protect Our Polls Act,' Barring Arrests Within 200 Feet of California Polling Places 6 src
Gavin Newsom · California Legislature
confirmed
2026-09-18Trump-Aligned Super PACs Have Reserved Over $150 Million in Midterm Ads in Two Weeks, Much in Trump-Won Seats 4 src
MAGA Inc. · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-09-17USPS Halts Development of Ballot-Verification System and Tells Staff It Will Not Enforce the Mail-Ballot Rules in 2026, Postmaster General Steiner Says 2 src
David Steiner · United States Postal Service · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-09-16DOJ Sent Five Grand Jury Subpoenas for San Diego County Voter Records Between June 1 and Sept. 16, Registrar Says 2 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Homeland Security Investigations
confirmed
2026-09-15ICE Located About 4,646 Pages Responsive to Democracy Forward's Election FOIA; Releases Set at 1,000 Pages by October 1 and 1,000 More by November 1 1 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Office of Legal Counsel
confirmed
2026-09-15Patel Refuses Under Oath to Rule Out FBI Agents at Polling Places in the November Midterms 4 src
Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Richard Blumenthal · Raja Krishnamoorthi · +1
confirmed
2026-09-15Texas SOS Refers 117 Cases to the AG and Concedes 578 of 2,724 SAVE-Flagged Voters Proved Citizenship 1 src
Texas Secretary of State
confirmed
2026-09-14Democratic State Parties Launch 'New Battlefield Project' to Place 10,000 Poll Monitors Against Feared Federal Interference 3 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Customs and Border Protection
confirmed
2026-09-14Former DHS Official Warns SAVE Is Becoming a Centralized Federal Database Deciding Voter Eligibility 4 src
Miles Taylor · Department of Homeland Security · Texas Secretary of State
confirmed
2026-09-14Supreme Court Blocks Trump's Mail-Ballot Rules 7-2 for the 2026 Midterms, Kavanaugh Resting It on Timing Rather Than Authority 4 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Brett Kavanaugh · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · +3
confirmed
2026-09-13Judge Nichols Reverses Himself and Enjoins the USPS Mail-Ballot Rule, Holding the Postal Reorganization Act Gives USPS No Such Authority 1 src
United States Postal Service · Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee · Donald Trump
reported
2026-09-10DOJ Sends 29 States and DC Election-Record Preservation Letters Warning of Criminal Sanctions 3 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Harmeet Dhillon · DOJ Civil Rights Division
confirmed
2026-09-10Joe diGenova Resigns as Head of DOJ's Florida "Grand Conspiracy" Probe After Clashes Over Its Pace; Probe Has Brought No Charges 3 src
Joseph DiGenova · Todd Blanche · Maria Medetis Long
confirmed
2026-09-10LULAC, UnidosUS, Common Cause and Denver Sue DHS Over Armed ICE Officers at Polling Places 5 src
League of United Latin American Citizens · Common Cause · City and County of Denver · Markwayne Mullin · +3
confirmed
2026-09-10Trump Led RNC Midterm Convention Crowd in a Pledge That Included the Line 'I'm Gonna Try and Cheat Like Hell Like They Do' 3 src
Donald Trump · Republican National Committee
reported
2026-09-09Commerce Proposes Excluding Non-Green-Card Immigrants From 2030 Apportionment, Cutting Race Questions 5 src
U.S. Department of Commerce · U.S. Census Bureau · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-09-09DHS Emails Pennsylvania on Sept. 9: It Will Send the List, and the State Should Review Each of 14,576 1 src
Al Schmidt · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-09-09Trump Promises $5,000 'Dividend' to Every Adult Citizen, Conditioned on Republicans Holding Both Chambers 5 src
Donald Trump · JD Vance · Republican Party
confirmed
2026-09-04Talwani Preliminarily Enjoins the USPS Mail-Ballot Rule, Citing a Final Rule Issued Fewer Than Seventy Days Before the Election 4 src
Indira Talwani · United States Postal Service · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · +1
confirmed
2026-09-04Trump Tells Reporters in the Oval Office He Is Allocating Probably $400 to $500 Million of MAGA Inc. Money 1 src
Donald Trump · MAGA Inc. · Campaign Legal Center
confirmed
2026-09-03DOJ Files Its Second SCOTUS Emergency Application on the USPS Mail-Ballot Rule, 61 Days Before Midterms 5 src
U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Postal Service · Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-09-03Michigan Supreme Court Denies Mandamus, Killing Proof-of-Citizenship Ballot Measure Hours After SCOTUS Also Declines to Intervene 5 src
Brett Kavanaugh
confirmed
2026-09-01Dakota County MN Commissioners Asked to Pledge Noncompliance With Federal Mail-Ballot Restrictions; Two of Seven Respond, No Vote Taken 1 src
United States Postal Service
confirmed
2026-09-01DHS Launches HSI Voter-Fraud Surge in Nine States Through Mid-October 6 src
Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-09-01Mullin Tells Reporters in New York ICE Would Be at Polling Places Only for a Threat or a Warrant 2 src
Markwayne Mullin · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
reported
2026-09-01USPS Whistleblower Alleges Ballot-Vetting System Built in Weeks and Work Continued After Court Order 4 src
Richard Blumenthal · David Steiner · U.S. Postal Service · Indira Talwani
confirmed
2026-08-31Joint Chiefs Chairman Tells Sen. Slotkin the Joint Force Has No Plans to Send Troops to Polling Places in 2026 1 src
Dan Caine · Elissa Slotkin
confirmed
2026-08-28HSI Domestic Operations Broadcast to All Special Agents in Charge Launches Voter-Fraud Surge at AD Krol's Request; Now in the California Nurses Amended Record 1 src
Homeland Security Investigations · Department of Homeland Security
reported
2026-08-26Five-State Documentary Proof-of-Citizenship Picture Fractures Ahead of Midterms: New Hampshire Enjoined, Ohio's Separate BMV Requirement Also Blocked, EAC Still Headless 10 src
Brennan Center for Justice · Election Assistance Commission · League of Women Voters · Frank LaRose · +1
reported
2026-08-26Talwani Vacates Her Own Mail-Ballot Injunction After SCOTUS Stay; USPS Publishes the Final Rule the Same Day 4 src
Supreme Court of the United States · U.S. Postal Service · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-08-25ICE Posts $5M Request for Information to Build Recurring Nationwide Voter-File Acquisition Pipeline 3 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Homeland Security Investigations · Department of Homeland Security · Protect Democracy
confirmed
2026-08-17CBS Reports DOJ Plans 1,000 Monitors for the November Midterms, Citing Dhillon's Bloomberg Remarks; 289 in 2022, 714 in 2024 6 src
Harmeet Dhillon · Civil Rights Division · Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-08-17Iowa's Pate Says No 2026 Potential-Noncitizen Challenge List Is Likely: The State Already Ran Its Own SAVE Check 1 srcconfirmed
2026-08-10Hennepin County Says It Denied a DOJ Request to Send Staff Into Polling Places for the Aug. 11 Primary; DOJ Monitors to Stay Outside a 100-Foot Boundary 2 src
Hennepin County Attorney's Office · Mary Moriarty · Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division
confirmed
2026-07-29Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Writes DHS Back on Its 14,576 Figure 1 src
Al Schmidt · Markwayne Mullin · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-07-23California's Weber Writes Back to DHS: Letter Gives 'No Detail Whatsoever', Asks for Method by August 3 2 src
Shirley Weber · Markwayne Mullin · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed