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The legislative hot sauce on Texas’s election audit bill

A mild new process for requesting reviews is paired with a spicy mandate that would be hard for the state to digest.

By Jessica Huseman

Why did this EAC commissioner talk to the senator behind Arizona’s audit?

By Jessica Huseman October 12

Texas’s audit doesn’t resemble a “full forensic audit”

By Jessica Huseman October 4

Memo proves that Trump campaign knew Dominion allegations were lies

By Jessica Huseman September 27

Pa. redistricting panel rolls back new policy to count incarcerated people in home districts, not state prisons

By Kate Huangpu September 22

The Fraud Squad takes Pennsylvania

By Jessica Huseman September 20

Why the need for election funding is so dire now

By Jessica Huseman September 13

Secretaries of State Implore Pelosi for Federal Election Funding

By Jessica Huseman September 10

Elections are still under attack—and no help is on the way

By Jessica Huseman September 7

When news media contribute to the misinformation hellscape

By Jessica Huseman August 21

The events of a bizarre week converge under one shadow

By Jessica Huseman August 14

Pa.’s political mapmakers finally have new census data. Now the hard work begins.

By Sarah Anne Hughes August 12

Why is Biden outraged about voting restrictions but not the filibuster?

By Jessica Huseman August 9

A stumble to the finish line for Arizona’s partisan audit

By Chad Lorenz July 31

The Texas election bill contains a new obstacle to voting that almost no one is talking about

By Jessica Huseman July 26

This is why you check with election administrators before you draft a bill

By Jessica Huseman July 24

How long can Texas Democrats stay together and stay away?

By Jessica Huseman July 17

Behind the scenes of the latest walkout by Texas Democrats over the GOP’s voting bill

By Jessica Huseman July 12

Texas embarks on a redo of its voting bill

By Jessica Huseman July 10

The fundamental disagreement over voting rights at SCOTUS—and everywhere

By Jessica Huseman July 3

Redistricting reform in Pa. is dead for now, advocates say. So what’s next?

By Marie Albiges July 1

Pennsylvania governor vetoes GOP-led election overhaul citing voter ID restrictions

By Marie Albiges June 30

State, local officials push Congress to include $20 billion for elections in infrastructure funding

By Jessica Huseman June 28

The next phase of the voting fight starts in Georgia

By Jessica Huseman June 26

As Pa. House advances doomed election overhaul, Senate GOP charts different course to voter ID, other changes

By Marie Albiges June 22

Texas Democrats have a message for congressional Democrats

By Jessica Huseman June 19

GOP’s major election overhaul advances in Pa. House as Democrats call it a ‘farce’

By Marie Albiges June 15

Will election administrators’ dreams finally come true?

By Jessica Huseman June 12

Pa. GOP proposes major election overhaul, including stricter voter ID and in-person early voting

By Marie Albiges June 10

We’re seeing who will and won’t confront the Big Lie

By Jessica Huseman June 5

Why Texas Democrats had to walk out—and what they could do next

By Jessica Huseman June 4

A look into the kitchen where restrictive voting laws are cooked up

By Jessica Huseman May 29

Mark Zuckerberg helped some Pa. counties survive the 2020 election. Right-wing lawmakers say that was unfair.

By Marie Albiges May 28

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