Araceli Martínez-Olguín

Judge Restricts DHS Election Investigations in Nine States

A federal judge declined to block North Carolina’s mail-in ballot rules requiring signature checks and sealed inner envelopes, saying voting was already underway, plaintiffs delayed in suing, and changing procedures risked confusion. Voting-rights groups and voters argued the rules, adopted as ballots began going out, could disqualify valid ballots and burden voters; ballots have already been rejected under the requirements.