Carrie Levine

Carrie Levine

Editor-in-Chief, Votebeat

Carrie Levine is Votebeat's Editor-in-Chief. She was previously a senior reporter for the Center for Public Integrity, where she covered voting access, money in politics and influence. Before that, she was research director at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a nonpartisan watchdog group. She previously reported and edited for Legal Times and the National Law Journal, the Charlotte Observer. A graduate of Boston University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she is based in Washington, D.C.

A majority of justices declined to allow the U.S. Postal Service to put new restrictions in place for November.

Election officials worry about the effects prediction markets could have on the 2026 elections.

The ruling leaves the order in place, but allows opponents to challenge it again if federal agencies act.

The Trump-aligned former county clerk had been convicted for helping to breach her own county’s election systems.

Last-minute redistricting is forcing primaries to be rescheduled and confusing voters, while implementation of Trump’s mail-voting executive order is up in the air.

The ruling struck down Louisiana’s congressional map, but with primaries looming, most states don’t have time to redraw maps before the 2026 elections.

Even should it pass court muster, Trump’s recent directive on mail voting doesn’t specify how the lists it mandates would be created.

Much of Trump’s first executive order on elections has been blocked in court. This one, too, is likely to be legally challenged.

The court’s ruling could overturn laws giving grace periods for mail ballots in 14 states and DC.