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President Donald Trump’s new executive order on elections would tie up millions of everyday Americans who vote by mail in tangles of red tape, experts in election administration said. And that’s assuming government officials could even implement it in time for the upcoming midterm elections.
A federal appeals court ruled that Arkansas cannot enforce a restrictive voter registration rule requiring a handwritten signature to register to vote.
Arizona voters notched sweeping, back-to-back victories after the state Supreme Court declined to hear three separate challenges backed by Republicans and right-wing groups — leaving in place key safeguards for mail-in voting, election administration and certification.
The “defects” cited by the FBI to obtain the affidavit for the raid were in fact nothing more than glaring misunderstandings of the process, minor inconsistencies, and normal human errors with no significant impact.
The case is just the latest lawsuit the RNC has filed in recent years to gain access to state voter rolls.
Oklahoma announced it agreed to turn over its full voter rolls to the Trump Justice Department — including sensitive personal data the state had previously refused to provide.
The group also claimed that the 2024 election in the county had nearly 34,000 more votes counted than cast. The county’s registrar has said the group misunderstood the data it was looking at.
Mullin said during a March 18 confirmation hearing for his nomination, that he wouldn’t rule out sending ICE agents to the polls during midterms.
A top U.S. general said Thursday that armed troops shouldn’t be “anywhere near” polling sites during elections while testifying at a Senate Armed Services Committee panel.
In the first week of Senate debate over the SAVE America Act, Republicans laid bare their anti-voting agenda — not a serious policy discussion, but a spiraling mix of conspiracy theories, culture war grievances and increasingly extreme rhetoric as the bill’s path to passage all but disappears.