Jen reports on threats to democracy in states across the country. She previously covered elections and local government at the Houston Chronicle and at Houston’s NPR station. She loves voting early on Halloween.
President Donald Trump took a break this weekend from his nonstop, baseless accusations about mail voting fraud to remind his own supporters to cast their mail ballots in this year’s elections.
Georgia’s election board asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate a leading nonpartisan voter roll maintenance program, potentially adding yet another probe based on hyper-partisan conspiracy theories to the department’s portfolio.
Ken Paxton has election interference tools and he’s proven his willingness to use them. But legal experts are confident that courts are up to the task of protecting the will of the voters.
With Texans facing more than their share of potential hurdles in this year’s midterm elections, pro-voting groups are hard at work preparing to back them up at the polls.
The Republican National Committee is piloting a training program for Wisconsin election observers to identify discrepancies with voting machines, as the GOP piles additional scrutiny on voting processes in the swing state.
The U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed Friday that Missouri cannot use a gerrymandered congressional map for this year’s midterm elections, closing out a yearlong redistricting legal battle.
A federal appeals court on Monday ordered Missouri to reinstate a gerrymandered map that eliminates a Democratic district in Kansas City, even though the state has already distributed ballots.
The lawyer representing Republican candidates in Missouri told a federal appeals court it’s still not too late to change the congressional map for the midterm election even after the U.S. and state Supreme Courts have already blocked the move.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases challenging the state’s congressional map as a gerrymander that advantages Republicans. If the court were to rule for the plaintiffs, the state could have more Democratic-friendly districts for the 2028 elections.
After Missouri’s year-long fight over a gerrymandered congressional map, local election officials are scrambling to finalize ballots after the legal battle blew past deadlines for them to be done.
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