11+ hour, 54+ min ago   (340+ words) A federal appeals court formally put into effect a ruling allowing Mississippi to count mail ballots that arrive after Election Day. The order follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling that upheld the state’s five-day grace period for ballots postmarked by…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (343+ words) In a loss for voters, a federal judge dismissed a voting rights lawsuit challenging two Indiana laws that require certain people to provide proof of citizenship to register, or remain registered, to vote. U.S. District Judge Matthew Brookman, a nominee of…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (256+ words) The Justice Department called a federal judge’s block on key parts of President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order “baseless” as it seeks to put the restrictions in place before Election Day. “Every day that the district court’s injunction remains…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (627+ words) Over three dozen election officials — including several Republican secretaries of state — urged the Supreme Court Thursday to uphold a lower court ruling barring the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from forcing states to comply with sudden new mail voting regulations…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (272+ words) The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday denied the Justice Department’s latest effort to reinstate key parts of President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting order for this year’s pivotal midterm elections. The appeals court dismissed the Justice Department’s arguments that the…...

4+ day, 10+ hour 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…...

4+ day, 11+ hour 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…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (532+ words) By Brentin Mock, Alexandra Hutzler The U.S. Postal Service’s new mail voting rules overstep the authority granted to it by Congress, pro-voting groups argued in a brief asking a federal appeals court to keep the rule frozen before the upcoming elections....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (295+ words) The Trump administration pushed back on a federal judge’s finding that states cannot realistically comply with sweeping new U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail voting restrictions before the midterms, telling an appeals court that election officials’ concerns are overstated. In an…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (646+ words) A federal appeals court Friday rejected the Trump administration’s effort to immediately revive the use of a sweeping immigration database to check voter rolls, leaving in place a ruling that shut down a major piece of President Donald Trump’s anti-voting…...