Noncitizens are prohibited from voting by multiple federal laws and illegal voting is a crime in every state. But as you’ve likely read, the lie that noncitizen voting is a major threat to U.S.

The U.S. Constitution explicitly gives states the authority to determine the “Times, Places and Manner” to run federal elections and carefully limits federal involvement in election administration.

Since 2016, President Trump and his administrations have made non-citizen voting central to their misleading claims about election results. Even in elections the president won, he has claimed that non ...

Today, a federal court sided with Common Cause and voters in their lawsuit against the Department of Justice (DOJ), ruling the DOJ’s campaign to consolidate sensitive voter data violates voter privacy ...

In November 2023, just after off-year elections and as states were preparing for the upcoming presidential primaries, a registered voter in Waterford Township, Michigan challenged the voting ...

Since Donald Trump has returned to the presidency, we have seen numerous Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations and prosecutions against his political opponents, often presaged by direct threats ...

In March, we published Executive Override: How the Trump administration is using federal power to deceive Americans, disrupt our elections, and deny fair results — and what we can do to stop it. The ...

Public voter registration data is critical to democracy in the United States. In nearly every state, a public file contains essential information about voters’ eligibility (address, age, districts, ...

Poland’s surprise opposition victory reveals the most important pro-democracy maxim: don’t let the coalition fracture. At a gathering of pro-democracy organizations in 2017, a Polish opposition member ...

These key questions can help assess whether a government-led investigation or prosecution is appropriate — or an abuse of power. Former president Donald Trump is facing criminal investigations and ...

One of the most pressing challenges of American democracy, if not the most pressing challenge, is finding an appropriate method of allocating political power among an increasingly diverse — in terms ...