Mail Voting
With less than two months until the midterms, the messy court battle is nearing a conclusion.
Election experts question whether it’s possible to comply with the Postal Service’s new mail ballot rules by November.
Monday’s Supreme Court ruling doesn’t end a messy legal fight over Trump’s efforts to restrict mail ballots for the midterms.
The 2027 removals will be the first under a state law that requires officials to remove voters from the list if they don’t cast their mail ballot for two consecutive general election cycles.
About 1,300 ballots were marked undeliverable in Navajo County during the July 21 primary. Votebeat gathered data and records to investigate.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rebuked a lower court’s 2025 ruling that struck down nine provisions of a sweeping election law related to voter assistance.
The ruling throws a new wrench in the president’s plans to involve the U.S. Postal Service in absentee voting this November.
The U.S. Postal Service has warned that time is growing short to make changes for the midterms.
A new lawsuit seeks to allow voters voters facing mail delays to cast provisional ballots in person
Absentee voters are most likely to be affected, but many will never find out about it.
The state and city are seeking to better understand how an error happened twice — and prevent it from recurring in future elections.
Federal officials are seeking to quickly stay a ruling blocking Trump’s executive order, even as another judge separately rules the Postal Service can’t proceed with carrying it out.
The case threatened to send election officials scrambling by moving up mail ballot receipt deadlines in several states.
The judge ruled that the federal government does not have the authority to create centralized lists of adult citizens or decide who can vote by mail.
The measure would require mail voters to provide ID, but it’s unclear exactly how that might work. If voters approve the change, lawmakers would have to figure out how to implement it.
The long vote-counting process comes under fire from Trump, but some say it’s a sign of success.
A new study from the University of Pennsylvania used the 2024 election to measure how effective ballot-curing policies are.
The feud between Justin Heap and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors looms large over the upcoming primary election.
Despite some mail ballot mixups, the state’s primary has been largely without issue so far.
The requirement has flipped on and off several times over the years.