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In a win for Wisconsin voters, a state judge vacated a ruling that would have forced election officials to conduct mass citizenship checks — a move voting rights advocates warned could have wrongly purged some citizens from the rolls.
In a case with major implications for voting access, the U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether a mail-in ballot must be received by Election Day to count, or if it merely must be sent by then.
From Virginia up to Maine, New Jersey out to California, and plenty of places in between, Tuesday was a great night for democracy — and an awful night for President Donald Trump.
The North Carolina election board on Thursday announced a raft of new hires with backgrounds in the state’s Republican politics, including a former aide to the GOP lawmaker who led the state’s recent gerrymander.
An Arizona appeals court dismissed a lawsuit by Mohave County Supervisor Ron Gould that tried to defend a plan to hand-count every ballot — a proposal rooted in election denial rhetoric that has spread through swing states since 2020.
Speaking at a White House breakfast with Senate Republicans, Trump responded by calling on lawmakers to smooth a path for voter suppression measures.
Maine voters rejected a Republican-backed ballot initiative Tuesday that would have imposed new photo ID rules and severely limited mail-in voting — a decisive win for voting rights advocates who said the measure threatened to upend the state’s long-standing tradition of accessible elections.
Three Democratic justices on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court have all won another 10-year term in a high-stakes retention election that saw a major GOP push to reshape the state’s highest court.
The Republican chairman of the House’s elections oversight committee recently revealed he would soon introduce legislation to ban states from counting mail-in ballots that were sent by Election Day but arrive after.
This week, Democracy Docket readers were first to learn about three important new developments in Republican voter suppression.