Natalie reports on all things elections and voting rights as Democracy Docket’s news writer. She is a recent American University graduate and is especially interested in disability voting rights reporting. Her work has also been published in The Buffalo News, Public Health Watch and The 51st.
When the U.S. Supreme Court threw mail voting into a legal saga this summer, voters in Maine started canceling their absentee ballot requests, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) said Wednesday during a discussion with top election officials. Bellows said voters paid the price of Trump’s crusade on mail voting when they were confused about […]
North Carolina’s last-minute restrictions on absentee ballots will lead to “arbitrary disenfranchisement,” pro-voter groups* argue in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
The Delaware state Supreme Court fast-tracked a decision late Monday to uphold the state’s permanent absentee ballot law. This means eligible voters can use the balloting method in this fall’s midterm elections.
President Donald Trump’s all-out assault on mail voting has come at a time when more Democrats use it. Now, fewer Democratic voters say they plan to vote by mail in the midterms, compared to how many did so in 2024, an NBC News poll reported today. This year, 36% of registered Democrats say they plan […]
FBI Director Kash Patel suggested at a Senate hearing Tuesday that federal agents may be present at the polls in November.
Responding to new whistleblower claims, Democrats warned against what they called the latest Trump administration move to “rig the election” by illegally accessing voter data. In a Monday afternoon press conference, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) called on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to immediately stop efforts to […]
Early voting in Minnesota could be more challenging this year — starting with how some voters will check in. One county will use pen and paper to manually check in tens of thousands of voters.
Parts of the U.S. Postal Service’s mail voting rule still don’t exist while the Trump administration aggressively presses for it to be implemented. Meanwhile, mail voting is underway in several states.
A Delaware court upheld the right to vote via permanent absentee ballot, rejecting a GOP-led challenge to restrict the option used most widely by overseas voters and those with disabilities.
A Minnesota Supreme Court justice raised concerns during oral argument Tuesday that one city’s request to use paper poll books rather than electronic records could disenfranchise thousands of voters.