RNC v. Fairfax County Electoral Board
An anti-voting lawsuit challenging Fairfax County’s policies surrounding the eligibility of voters suspected to be noncitizens. BackgroundThe Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit against the Fairfax County Electoral Board claiming that its Election Officer Training Notebook does not expressly require officers to challenge the eligibility of voters who present a Driver Privilege Card (DPC), a […]
Just months before the 2026 midterms, election officials from across the country gathered this week to meet with a key federal voting panel, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC).
Election officials across the country this week voiced concerns that the Trump administration is blocking appointments to a key federal committee that helps create standards for voting equipment used in U.S. elections.
North Carolina election officials admitted they have no evidence that noncitizens on the voter rolls are a widespread problem — even as they move forward with plans to share voter data with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read (D) again called on a top federal election official to resign over her inflammatory comments against Democrats last year, saying she should not be involved in election initiatives that are “supposed to be bipartisan.”
When a California sheriff seized 650,000 ballots from last year’s redistricting referendum, it raised an alarming question about what was previously almost a nightmare scenario: What must election officials do if law enforcement orders them to hand over ballots?
The North Carolina State Board of Elections’s Republican majority voted to move forward with using a federal immigration database to check the state’s voter rolls — an escalation in the board’s ongoing effort to scrutinize voter rolls that could put eligible voters at risk.
At a House Administration Committee hearing Thursday, Republicans repeatedly raised hypothetical specters of coordinated voter fraud while state election officials gently reiterated, again and again, that elections and voter registration rolls are already safe, secure, and accurate.
Pennsylvania is one of the only states that does not allow officials to begin processing mail ballots before Election Day — a restriction that has long delayed vote counts and contributed to confusion around election results.
Christy McCormick, the Republican vice-chair of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), told Democracy Docket Tuesday that she is under “investigation” for her inflammatory comments against Democrats last year.
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