51+ min ago   (189+ words) The request came just hours after the lower court refused to pause its ruling. Two pro-voting groups filed the lawsuit last year challenging a new state law that would make it more difficult for residents to register to vote, particularly…...

50+ min ago   (753+ words) The Trump administration has quietly removed a key option from the federal form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots, eliminating a checkbox for U.S. citizens who were born and are living abroad. It’s the latest step in…...

42+ min ago   (496+ words) A union representing more than 200,000 postal workers alleged Tuesday that a “catastrophic wholesale non-delivery” of hundreds of thousands of mail ballots will likely occur if states are forced to comply with the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) new mail voting…...

2+ hour, 14+ min ago   (515+ words) Allowing the U.S. Postal Service to implement a new rule restricting mail voting at this stage “would be chaos,” Democratic attorneys general told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. “Whatever else may be said of USPS’ new rule, it would wreak havoc…...

3+ hour, 9+ min ago   (620+ words) Parts of the U.S. Postal Service’s mail voting rule still don’t exist while the Trump administration aggressively presses for it to be implemented. Meanwhile, mail voting is underway in several states. That has some experts issuing stark warnings that votes already…...

2+ hour, 44+ min ago   (659+ words) President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) wants a lower court order against the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) new mail voting rule lifted — even if it means voters would be disenfranchised as a result. The department made the alarming admission…...

3+ hour, 19+ min ago   (243+ words) Democracy Docket As they’ve sought to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order attacking mail voting, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) have maintained that the restrictions would not apply to U.S. citizens voting…...

3+ hour, 40+ min ago   (288+ words) Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’ (R) last-minute request injects even more chaos into an election process he has spent the last year attempting to undermine in order to deliver the gerrymandered map President Donald Trump demanded. The Missouri Supreme…...

3+ hour, 56+ min ago   (474+ words) In a win for voters, a federal judge Wednesday refused to let Ohio election officials enforce the state’s proof-of-citizenship voter registration law while the state appeals an earlier ruling blocking the restriction. The decision keeps the law unenforceable as a…...

5+ hour, 49+ min ago   (544+ words) The Missouri Supreme Court gave the state’s top election official until 1pm EST Wednesday to explain why he shouldn’t be held in contempt for violating the court’s Sept. 3 order preventing him from using a gerrymandered congressional map that will give Republicans…...