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How Trump ally Cleta Mitchell won a seat on the EAC advisory board

An unorthodox process at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, largely done in secret, led to the controversial bipartisan appointment.

By Jessica Huseman

New Texas secretary of state not focused on fraud, wants to “bring temperature down” on voting

By Jessica Huseman

How election administrators can protect elections by speaking up

By Jessica Huseman

Graphic of the Week: High Confidence in Virginia Election

By Francois Barrilleaux November 17

Police can’t stop the threats to election workers

By Jessica Huseman November 15

This election was a warning to New Jersey

By Jessica Huseman November 8

Squeakers in Virginia and N.J. show that some of America still trusts elections

By Jessica Huseman November 3

What a missing machine in Michigan can teach us about internal election admin threats

By Jessica Huseman October 31

The problems with Facebook’s attempts to manage election information

By Jessica Huseman October 29

Despite transparency vows, much of Pa.’s redistricting still takes place behind closed doors

By Kate Huangpu October 28

Graphic of the Week: Early voting takes off in Virginia

By Francois Barrilleaux October 25

Congress gives extra funding to the Pentagon but leaves elections vulnerable

By Jessica Huseman October 23

How the 2020 election sparked a new kind of journalism

By Michael Falero October 21

The legislative hot sauce on Texas’s election audit bill

By Jessica Huseman October 18

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

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