Groups have altered or stopped voter outreach efforts, worried about criminal penalties.
The Trump administration is deploying an unprecedented 1,000 monitors to observe the midterms, but the monitors themselves are a normal feature of elections.
Republican Scott Petersen defeated the incumbent in the primary after questioning the security of the state’s voting equipment. His opponents say his proposals threaten voting access.
As of Thursday, voters had cast 344,000 in-person absentee ballots, compared with 224,000 at this point in 2022.
The Potter County Republican Party lawsuit argues, without providing proof, that voting machines could be vulnerable. Texas law already requires a portion of paper ballots to be hand counted.
The typically low-key process has come under scrutiny since Jan. 6 rioters sought to halt certification of the 2020 presidential election.
A state-by-state guide to poll-closing times and how fast ballots are counted.
The nationwide letters came a day after a federal judge warned that threats against election officials “must stop.”
Preventable failures led to a disastrous election in Apache County in 2024 — particularly on Navajo Nation, the country’s largest Native American reservation.
Groups have altered or stopped voter outreach efforts, worried about criminal penalties.
Americans are losing confidence in voting by mail after persistent Trump efforts to restrict the practice.
Last minute legal maneuvering by the Trump administration is more likely to confuse voters than succeed in court, experts say, but it could lay the groundwork for post-election challenges.
Votebeat and Spotlight PA attempted to verify the citizenship of 180 potential noncitizen voters in Chester County.
The two candidates offer strikingly different views and rhetoric on election administration.
From aging touchscreens to calibration problems, voting machine complaints are a familiar feature of elections. Here’s how officials investigate them.
The state’s Qualified Voter File slowed to a crawl during the August primary, making it difficult to register new voters or process absentee ballots.
Join Votebeat a week after Election Day to get the full breakdown on what happened and what it all means.
A guide to which top election offices could change hands.
The White House and California squared off in federal court over an unusual request to set aside ballots in an ongoing election.
The 25 voters were initially suspected of being noncitizens, but a county investigation found last month that they were actually citizens.
The charges are part of a Trump administration push ahead of Election Day.