Election Laws
They’re suing for the right to cast absentee ballots electronically, but security concerns stand in the way.
Peggy Judd, facing felony charges over 2022 election actions, says she feels betrayed by people who promised help with legal defense.
Where is the first tally supposed to happen? Lawmakers scramble to clarify their intent.
Groups including the NAACP want the full 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on the issue. A decision is not expected before the April 23 primary.
Secretary Schmidt answers more of your questions from live event
Who would be allowed to transport ballots, fix machines, or help set up polling places? Clerks struggle for answers.
The decision means potentially tens of thousands of ballots could be rejected this year. Plaintiffs must decide whether an appeal makes sense.
Recount petitions may force courts to step in if the state can’t deliver on time.
The study seeks to account for the full effect of policy changes since the landmark Shelby County decision that gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act in 2013.
The checks by election officials are likely to disproportionately affect naturalized citizens, younger voters, and college students.
City and town clerks are begging state lawmakers to fix a new law enacted last month that will require their offices to be open at a time when they don’t provide any election services.
Pennsylvania uses a lottery to decide who gets top billing
We’ll cover the disputes over voting rules and how they affect voters and the local officials who run elections in this pivotal state.
How Arizona’s divided legislature united behind a solution that sets the primary for July 30 this year and changes how mail-in ballots are verified.
A new law aimed to increase voting access in rural counties. In South Texas it’s having the opposite effect.
In wide-ranging lawsuit over the new Elections Procedures Manual, Republican lawmakers allege the secretary of state can’t make rules for counties on certifying their elections.
The law, passed unanimously by Republicans, requires counties that offer countywide voting to increase the number of locations — a nearly impossible challenge in some areas.
The state’s voting rules and new laws have created an unforgiving timeline for the 2024 presidential election. But there’s many ways to compress the schedule to make it work.
Arizona’s governor and secretary of state say it’s fine not to consistently monitor ballot drop boxes. But Republicans say the law doesn’t bear that out, and the Elections Procedures Manual finalized in December doesn’t clarify.
Important developments will shape whether Trump appears on the ballot, the balance of political power in some states, and still-ongoing 2020 election investigations.