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[122] [123] In U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995), the Court clarified that state election laws regulating ballot access and election administration do not amount to additional qualifications for elected office because such laws "[regulate] election procedures and [do] not … [render] a class of potential candidates ineligible".
While other states are threatening voting rights, Virginia took a major step today to protect the right to vote." [19] Republicans in both the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate unanimously opposed the bill, arguing that it would inundate local election administrators with lawsuits and complicate routine changes to voting. [3]
Ian Drake, a law professor at Montclair State University, has argued that Congress cannot consent to the NPVIC, because Congress has no power to alter the functioning of the Electoral College under Article I, Section VIII. [70] However, a report by the Government Accountability Office suggests congressional authority is not limited in this way ...
The Justice Department sued both Virginia and Alabama in the fall, accusing them of violating a ban on purging voters within 90 days of an election.
In addition to blocking further purges, U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles had ordered the state to restore the registrations of those canceled since Aug. 7 because federal law prohibits voter ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge on Friday blocked Virginia's removal of people it said had not proved their citizenship from its voter rolls, saying it ran afoul of a federal ...
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that grants provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for State veterans' cemeteries do not restrict States from authorizing the interment of certain deceased members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces in such cemeteries, and for other purposes. S. 2126: June 17, 2021
Virginia formally withdrew from an election information-sharing pact Thursday, becoming the latest state under Republican control to leave the nonpartisan program, which became the subject of ...