Jacob is a reporter at Democracy Docket and covers anti-Trump accountability litigation. He is from South Dakota and earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism, English and political science from Augustana University. Before joining Democracy Docket, he covered breaking news at Axios.
Just months before the 2026 midterms, election officials from across the country gathered this week to meet with a key federal voting panel, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC).
Election officials across the country this week voiced concerns that the Trump administration is blocking appointments to a key federal committee that helps create standards for voting equipment used in U.S. elections.
Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read (D) again called on a top federal election official to resign over her inflammatory comments against Democrats last year, saying she should not be involved in election initiatives that are “supposed to be bipartisan.”
Christy McCormick, the Republican vice-chair of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), told Democracy Docket Tuesday that she is under “investigation” for her inflammatory comments against Democrats last year.
A group of election officials is asking a key federal voting panel to create an expansive voter registration data-sharing network between states. The idea sparked concern among some local election officials at a conference of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) in Chicago.
Local election officials from across the country warned that the Supreme Court’s pending decision on mail-in ballot grace periods could disrupt the upcoming 2026 midterms and asked a key federal elections agency for assistance.
When the FBI seized 2020 election materials from an election hub in Fulton County, Georgia, this January, their extraordinary raid was predicated in part on a report alleging election fraud in the county. But before the raid, officials within the bureau had already debunked that report.
A new lawsuit filed seeks to force the Justice Department to divulge communications between senior officials and prominent election deniers throughout the department’s ongoing efforts to obtain state voter rolls and relitigate President Trump’s 2020 election loss.
Ed Martin, the hardline MAGA Republican serving as President Trump’s pardon attorney, is attempting to claim executive privilege in a bid to evade misconduct charges from attorney ethics regulators in Washington, D.C.
Historical and oversight watchdog groups sued President Trump over the Justice Department’s recent assertion that he would no longer have to comply with a federal law requiring the preservation of presidential records.
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