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New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) announced that a software failure improperly registered roughly 6,600 people who told the Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) they were not U.S. citizens.
Cox’s comments show how some GOP candidates running for state office in November are trying to distance themselves from MAGA’s obsession with the 2020 election.
A coalition of voting rights groups asked a federal judge to — again — temporarily prevent the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from implementing President Donald Trump’s March 2026 executive order on mail voting.
In a win for voters, a federal judge Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee (RNC) seeking to force New Jersey to release sensitive voter data. U.S. District Judge Georgette Castner, a Biden appointee, determined the RNC lacked standing to bring its case under the National Voter Registration Act’s public-disclosure requirements after […]
Some fear the impact could go well beyond this November’s vote and see the move as part of the president’s grander scheme to wrest control of elections from states.
Arizona voters will head to the polls in primaries that could help determine whether one of the country’s most important battleground states continues resisting President Donald Trump’s attacks on elections — and whether election deniers move closer to controlling key statewide offices.
Pro-voting groups asked a federal appeals court Monday to stop Florida, Ohio, Iowa and Indiana from using the Trump administration’s expanded SAVE database for mass voter screenings.
Hours before President Donald Trump delivered a primetime address brimming with debunked conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential vote, his Department of Justice (DOJ) unveiled a new website tracking state-by-state efforts to supposedly protect American elections.
Floating ballots, foreign interference, faulty tabulation. President Donald Trump unleashed a barrage of unfounded claims in his prime-time speech Thursday. But since then, election officials across the country have rushed to refute the lies and defend their states’ election systems. Officials and administrators from at least 30 states debunked the president’s claims over the weekend. […]
The GOP-controlled North Carolina State Board of Elections approved new permanent rules Monday that will make it more difficult for voters to cast their ballots by mail and ensure that they are counted. The change is just the latest attack on voting since Republicans took control of the board last year.