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Civil rights groups say plan will make people ‘afraid to vote’ and violates the Voting Rights Act<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/sep/18/us-politics-midterms-early-voting-cost-of-living-iran-war-trump-kennedy-center-institute-of-peace-latest-news-updates" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">US politics live – latest updates</a>A coalition of civil rights groups <a href="https://protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Complaint.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">filed a lawsuit </a>against Trump administration officials on Friday, seeking to stop them from threatening to deploy federal law enforcement officers to polling stations in the US midterm elections.The suit, led by the NAACP, alleges that by threatening to deploy law enforcement to survey elections and initiating new voter roll oversight, the Trump administration has violated <a href="https://www.justice.gov/crt/voting-rights-fact-sheet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">a section of the Voting Rights Act</a> which prohibits voter intimidation. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/18/trump-administration-sued-federal-law-enforcement-voting" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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