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.
Texas and Missouri are serving up opposite arguments about the impacts of swapping election maps between their primaries and the midterms, but whether that’s allowable or a constitutional crisis depends on which state you’re in and whether Republicans will benefit.
The Missouri Supreme Court greenlit a citizen-led redistricting referendum for this year’s November ballot — marking the end of a grueling, nearly year-long battle by voters to have the final say over a gerrymandered congressional map drawn up at President Donald Trump’s request.
The U.S. Postal Service signed off on North Carolina’s mail ballots, making it one of the first states to be approved under a new Trump administration plan that would restrict voting by mail.
Nearly one year after Missouri Republicans redrew the state’s congressional map at President Donald Trump’s request, voters’ long-running fight to block the gerrymander faces its final battle at the state Supreme Court.
Republican officials in a major battleground Texas county voted to slash Election Day polling locations by 30% for the November midterm elections.
Republican officials in a key battleground Texas county are set to vote Tuesday on a revised plan that would cut Election Day polling locations by 30% for the November midterm elections. The new proposal they will vote on Tuesday calls for 224 Election Day locations, down from 316 in the 2022 midterms. It also includes […]
A slate of anti-voting measures in North Carolina is unlikely to take effect before the November midterms because the public raised enough objections to trigger a review by state lawmakers.
North Carolina election officials took the first step to comply with the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) new rule implementing parts of President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order — even as the state fights to block the order in federal court.
Black voters’ 2023 victory blocking Georgia’s congressional and state legislative maps proved fleeting after the 11th Circuit sent the case back to a lower court to be reconsidered in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision gutting the Voting Rights Act provisions guaranteeing political representation for minority voters.
A federal court has blocked for now an Ohio law that makes voting more difficult by requiring residents to provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.