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Our team has been digging in on what’s probably the most important ongoing voting story of 2026, which will shape the voting access landscape for the midterms: the unprecedented push by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain state voter rolls.
Democrats warned 10 states that they may have violated federal election law after entering into an agreement with DOJ to share sensitive voter data.
The president has denied funding and even launched a federal investigation over Peters’ incarceration.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) opened a new front in its ongoing campaign for voter data held by states Friday, demanding Minnesota turn over records related to same-day registrations.
A pro-democracy organization has filed two formal complaints asking federal watchdogs to look into potential illegal actions and partisanship inside the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), an independent federal agency tasked with helping states administer elections. At the core of the complaints are allegations first reported by Democracy Docket.
On Tuesday, the nation looked on as Dallas County GOP Chairman Allen West admitted that failure was very much an option, announcing that the Dallas County Republican Party (DCRP) will now forgo the hand count.
One Republican lawyer who worked to overturn the 2020 election alongside leaders of the effort, and a second who was a senior member of Cleta Mitchell’s anti-voting network, were recently hired to work on voting issues at the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.
The United States Postal Service (USPS) finalized a rule on postmarks to reflect changes in its mail pickup processes that could cause an uptick in blown deadlines for documents sent by post, including mail-in ballots.
Peters’ lawyer suggests she might even appeal her case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The federal government has now filed lawsuits against 21 states, plus D.C., demanding registrants’ unredacted private information — including driver license numbers, social security numbers and dates of birth — in a campaign decried by local officials and legal experts as an unconstitutional attack on states’ authority to run elections and an illegal attempt to create an unprecedented national voter database.
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