Election Officials & Workers
State law allows registered voters to vouch that others live in their precinct. Here’s how it actually works.
Officials left their central count facility without exporting results from five of its nine tabulators, delaying the city’s results by about 90 minutes.
Election officials worry about the effects prediction markets could have on the 2026 elections.
Stacy Menke, previously the city’s deputy clerk, is serving as interim clerk for the August election.
Antrim County Clerk Victoria Bishop still faces a number of other controversies.
Election officials said the monitors were polite and unobtrusive, just as they have been in past years.
Kolodin, an election attorney and state lawmaker, has described existing election systems as dysfunctional and alleged fraud in prior elections.
At this year’s summer meeting of the National Association of Secretaries of State, state election officials compared notes, and federal officials weren’t there.
Howden’s appointment follows weeks of speculation over who would take over running Texas’ elections before the November midterms.
The minutely detailed agreement could resolve a longstanding dispute between top officials. Its first test will be the high-stakes general election.
The state and city are seeking to better understand how an error happened twice — and prevent it from recurring in future elections.
The agency can still perform many day-to-day functions, but without commissioners it cannot make key policy decisions.
The move leaves the federal agency with no commissioners as Trump seeks to reshape voting rules.
Gina Swoboda and Alex Kolodin agree on many election policies, but they would take vastly different approaches to the job.
The case threatened to send election officials scrambling by moving up mail ballot receipt deadlines in several states.
Some lawmakers pressured the Texas Secretary of State’s Office to fix problems with the state-wide voter registration system ahead of the midterm election.
The lower court’s decision, which is now on hold, had ordered the board of supervisors to transfer certain election powers to Recorder Justin Heap.
Republican Victoria Bishop says she has a mandate to clean the county’s voter rolls, but the state has warned her repeatedly not to do so.
The incident is the latest example of how county officials’ ongoing dispute over election control could sow chaos in next month’s primary.
Some local officials say a new chief state election official this summer could complicate preparations at a busy time.