#Voter-Suppression
Events indexed under #Voter-Suppression — 65 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-28 | Judge Carl Nichols (D.D.C.) Declines to Block Trump EO 14399 Mail-Ballot Provisions in Consolidated DSCC / NAACP / LULAC Challenge, Citing Lack of Implementation Harm
5 src Judge Carl J. Nichols · Donald Trump · Stephen M. Pezzi · Danielle Lang · +13 | confirmed | |
| 2026-05-07 | Tennessee Governor Signs GOP Gerrymander Dismantling Sole Majority-Black Congressional District, Dividing Memphis Three Ways
4 src Governor Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly · Representative Steve Cohen · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-05-04 | DHS SAVE Cross-Match Voter Purge Blitz in Ohio, Texas, Idaho Ahead of 2026 Midterms; 95% False-Positive Rate Documented
2 src Department of Justice · Department of Homeland Security · Election boards (Ohio) · Election boards (Texas) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-04-03 | 23 States Sue Trump Over Mail Voting Executive Order as Democratic AGs File 100th Lawsuit Against Administration
3 src Keith Ellison · Letitia James · Dan Rayfield · Democratic Attorneys General Association · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-31 | Trump Issues Executive Order Directing USPS to Refuse Delivery of Mail Ballots to Non-Approved Voters
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Postal Service | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-31 | Trump Signs Executive Order Directing Creation of National Verified Voter List and USPS Mail Ballot Control
6 src Donald Trump · DHS · Social Security Administration · USPS · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-08 | Trump Threatens Legislative Blockade Until Congress Passes SAVE America Voter ID Act
4 src Donald Trump · U.S. Congress · Senate Republicans · Senate Democrats | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-26 | White House Circulates Draft Emergency Order to Seize Control of Federal Elections
5 src Donald Trump · Peter Ticktin · Abigail Jackson | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-14 | Trump Threatens Executive Order on Voter ID Despite Prior Court Defeats
3 src Donald Trump · White House · Chuck Schumer | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-11 | House Passes SAVE America Act Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Vote, Heads to Senate
7 src Donald Trump · Chip Roy · Mike Lee · John Thune · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-30 | Federal Courts Issue Multiple Permanent Injunctions Blocking Trump's Anti-Voting Executive Order
5 src U.S. District Court · American Civil Liberties Union · Brennan Center for Justice · Democracy Docket · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-29 | Dhillon Refocuses Civil Rights Division on Voter Fraud as 70% of Staff Exit
3 src Harmeet Dhillon · Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-26 | Bondi Requests Minnesota Voter Rolls Including Public Assistance Data for ICE Enforcement
2 src Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Minnesota · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-16 | DOJ Voter Data Seizure Lawsuits Expand to 24 States Plus DC, Targeting Sensitive Personal Information
4 src Department of Justice · Harmeet Dhillon · Brennan Center for Justice · State Democracy Research Initiative | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-12 | DOJ Expands Voter Data Seizure Campaign to 18 States, Demanding Social Security Numbers and Driver's Licenses
5 src Department of Justice · Harmeet Dhillon · Jena Griswold · Bill Galvin · +5 | reported | |
| 2025-10-20 | North Carolina GOP Advances Mid-Decade Redistricting to Eliminate Black Representative
2 src North Carolina Republican Party · Sen. Ralph Hise · Rep. Don Davis | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-25 | DOJ Sues Six States to Seize Voter Data Including Social Security Numbers and Driver's Licenses
2 src Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division · California · Michigan · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | DOJ Demands Detailed Voter Roll Data From 30+ States to Build Centralized National Database
3 src Department of Justice · Donald Trump · State election officials | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-08 | Missouri GOP Passes Mid-Decade Gerrymander to Eliminate Democratic Congressional Seat
3 src Missouri GOP legislature · Representative Emmanuel Cleaver · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-08-18 | Trump Pledges Executive Order to Ban Mail-In Voting After Putin Meeting
3 src Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin · White House | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-25 | Texas Legislature passes redistricting without Democrats present
5 src Texas Legislature · Texas Republicans · Greg Abbott · Texas House Democrats · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-01 | DOJ Sends Demand Letters to 44 States for Unredacted Voter Rolls Including SSNs
5 src DOJ Civil Rights Division · Harmeet Dhillon · Pam Bondi · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Report: 34,000 Ohio ballots rejected in 2024 election after ID/process changes
4 src All Voting Is Local (voting rights organization) · Ohio Secretary of State · Ohio Legislature · Affected voters | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | DOJ Drops Voting Rights Cases in Georgia, Virginia, and Alabama, Abandoning Federal Enforcement
6 src Pamela Bondi · Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division · Brad Raffensperger · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | Trump Signs EO 'Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections' — Proof of Citizenship, Mail Ballot Restrictions
6 src Donald Trump · Department of Homeland Security · Department of Justice · U.S. Postal Service · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-30 | Supreme Court Allows Virginia to Purge 1,600 Voters Days Before Election Despite Federal Law
3 src US Supreme Court · Glenn Youngkin (Governor) · Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-22 | Georgia Supreme Court blocks State Election Board's hand-count rule
3 src Georgia Supreme Court · Georgia State Election Board · Chief Justice Nels Peterson · NAACP Georgia | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-09 | Brennan Center warns Georgia SB 189 spurs mass voter challenges
3 src Brennan Center for Justice · Georgia Legislature · True the Vote · Right-wing activists · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-05-13 | Leaked Video Exposes Heritage Action's $24 Million Voter Suppression Campaign Coordinating State Legislation
4 src Heritage Action · Jessica Anderson · Heritage Foundation · Hans von Spakovsky · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-25 | Georgia SB 202 Enacts Comprehensive Voter Suppression with Multiple ALEC Provisions
3 src Governor Brian Kemp · Georgia Republican Legislature · Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger · American Legislative Exchange Council | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-01 | 440 Voter Restriction Bills Introduced in 49 States - ALEC's Largest Suppression Wave
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · Heritage Action · Republican state legislators · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-01 | ALEC Develops New Model Election Bills to Implement Trump's "Big Lie"
2 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · Heritage Action · State Policy Network · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-13 | Trump Explicitly Admits Blocking USPS Funding to Restrict Mail Voting
4 src Donald Trump · Louis DeJoy · USPS | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-13 | USPS Removes Mailboxes in Democratic Areas, Reverses After Public Outcry
4 src Louis DeJoy · USPS · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-01 | DeJoy Removes 711 Mail Sorting Machines During Mail-In Voting Surge
3 src Louis DeJoy · USPS · Donald Trump · Federal Courts | confirmed | |
| 2019-12-13 | Conservative Lawsuit Forces Wisconsin to Purge 200,000 Voters Before 2020 Election
4 src Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty · Wisconsin Elections Commission | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-28 | Florida Legislature Enacts "Poll Tax" Requiring Payment of Fines to Undermine Amendment 4
4 src Ron DeSantis · Florida Legislature · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-01 | Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp Refuses to Recuse From Overseeing His Own Governor Election
4 src Brian Kemp · Stacey Abrams · Brad Raffensperger | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-11 | Supreme Court Upholds Ohio's Aggressive "Use It Or Lose It" Voter Purge System
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor · Jon Husted | confirmed | |
| 2017-07-01 | Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp Purges 560,000 Voters in Single Day Using "Exact Match" System
4 src Brian Kemp · Brad Raffensperger | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-11 | Trump Creates Presidential Commission on Election Integrity to Investigate Nonexistent Fraud
5 src Donald Trump · Kris Kobach · Mike Pence · Matthew Dunlap | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-11 | Federal Court Rules Texas Voter ID Law Intentionally Discriminatory Against Minorities
4 src Texas Legislature · Federal Courts | confirmed | |
| 2016-07-29 | Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Voter ID Law With "Surgical Precision" Ruling
4 src Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · Diana Gribbon Motz · North Carolina General Assembly | confirmed | |
| 2016-07-29 | North Carolina Voter ID Law Struck Down for Targeting African Americans
3 src North Carolina General Assembly · Governor Pat McCrory · Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-07-01 | North Carolina Passes "Monster" Voter Suppression Law Hours After Shelby County Decision
4 src North Carolina General Assembly · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-25 | ALEC States Immediately Implement Voter Restrictions After Shelby County Decision
3 src Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott · North Carolina Legislature · American Legislative Exchange Council · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | Kansas Implements Kris Kobach's Proof-of-Citizenship Voting Law and Expands Interstate Crosscheck
4 src Kris Kobach · Kansas Secretary of State | confirmed | |
| 2012-11-06 | North Carolina Democrats Win Popular Vote But Lose 9 of 13 Congressional Seats
4 src Democratic Party · Republican Party · North Carolina General Assembly | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | 34 States Introduce ALEC Voter ID Bills in Coordinated Suppression Campaign
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Republican state legislators · Heritage Foundation · State Policy Network | confirmed | |
| 2009-09-01 | James O'Keefe's Deceptively Edited ACORN Videos Trigger Destruction of Voter Registration Organization
4 src James O'Keefe · Hannah Giles · ACORN | confirmed | |
| 2009-07-17 | ALEC Creates Model Voter ID Legislation Following Obama Election
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Hans von Spakovsky · Heritage Foundation · ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force | confirmed | |
| 2008-04-28 | Crawford v. Marion County: Supreme Court Upholds Strict Voter ID Laws Despite No Evidence of In-Person Fraud
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Paul Stevens · Indiana Legislature · American Civil Liberties Union · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-01-01 | Hans von Spakovsky Joins Heritage Foundation to Lead Voter Suppression Infrastructure Development
4 src Hans von Spakovsky · Heritage Foundation · American Legislative Exchange Council · Council for National Policy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2007-06-25 | DOJ Voting Section Politicization: Bush Administration Weaponizes Civil Rights Division for Voter Suppression
3 src Alberto Gonzales · Hans von Spakovsky · Bradley Schlozman · John Tanner · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-08-25 | Hans von Spakovsky Overrules DOJ Career Staff to Approve Georgia Voter ID Law Targeting Black Voters
3 src Hans von Spakovsky · Department of Justice Civil Rights Division · Georgia Legislature · Harold Murphy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-01 | State Policy Network Organizational Profile: Coordinating 66 State Think Tanks for Synchronized Corporate Capture
4 src State Policy Network · Thomas A. Roe · Bradley Foundation · DonorsTrust · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-29 | Help America Vote Act Signed: Provisional Ballots, Voter ID, and Electronic Voting Vulnerabilities
4 src George W. Bush · U.S. Election Assistance Commission | confirmed | |
| 1997-01-01 | Felon Disenfranchisement Expansion: States Tighten Voting Bans as Prison Population Explodes
16 src State Legislatures · American Legislative Exchange Council · The Sentencing Project · Republican Governors | confirmed | |
| 1982-11-01 | RNC Signs Consent Decree Banning Voter Intimidation After Armed Ballot Security Task Force
4 src Republican National Committee · Democratic National Committee · Dickinson R. Debevoise | confirmed | |
| 1965-08-06 | Voting Rights Act Signed After Selma Bloody Sunday Defeats Southern Legislative Resistance
6 src President Lyndon B. Johnson · Martin Luther King Jr. · John Lewis · Southern Democratic Senators · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1964-06-21 | Mississippi Burning Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner During Freedom Summer Voter Registration
3 src James Chaney · Andrew Goodman · Michael Schwerner · Ku Klux Klan · +6 | confirmed | |
| 1964-01-23 | 24th Amendment Ratified Abolishing Poll Tax in Federal Elections After Decades of Voter Suppression
2 src U.S. Congress · State Legislatures · Civil rights movement | confirmed | |
| 1954-07-11 | White Citizens' Councils Pioneer Economic Collective Punishment in Yazoo City Mississippi | ||
| 1898-11-10 | Wilmington Coup d'État Overthrows Elected Biracial Government Through Mass Racial Violence | ||
| 1887-07-06 | Armed Militia Forces King Kalakaua to Sign "Bayonet Constitution," Stripping Hawaiian Sovereignty and Disenfranchising Native Hawaiians
4 src King Kalakaua · Hawaiian League · Sanford B. Dole · Lorrin Thurston · +5 | confirmed |