Democratic officials argue Donald Trump's executive order is an authoritarian overreach, violating state rights over how elections are conducted.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic officials in 19 states filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Donald Trump’s attempt to reshape elections across the U.S., calling it an unconstitutional invasion of states’ clear authority to run their own elections.

The months-long audit began in December 2024. It compared more than 7.9 million active driving records of Michigan residents of voting age to more than 7.2 million active registered voters in the state’s Qualified Voter File, according to the release.

Social media users, including some Republican elected officials, are falsely claiming that Democrats are suing the Trump administration to allow noncitizens to vote in American elections.

Democratic state attorneys general on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order that compels voters to prove they are U.S. citizens and bars states from counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in Boston, seeks to have a judge block the provisions of Trump’s order and declare them “unconstitutional and void,” arguing that the order exceeds Trump’s authority and violates the separation of powers,

The president signed an executive order last week that overhauls U.S. elections by giving unprecedented power to the federal government to regulate voting.

Voter turnout in the April 1 election in Sangamon County was 18.3%. We want to hear from the thousands who DID NOT vote. Vote in our poll, please!

A common assumption holds that nonreligious Americans vote for liberal candidates. The reality isn’t so simple.

Democratic officials in 19 states have filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump’s attempt to reshape elections. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, called the president’s move an unconstitutional invasion of states’ clear authority to run their own elections.