17+ hour, 42+ min ago   (152+ words) Democracy Docket With just 52 days until Election Day, some states have already begun to send out mail ballots, but a pending ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict mail voting could put those and other…...

2+ day, 14+ 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…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (656+ words) As Missouri Supreme Court judges considered the extraordinary move of holding the state’s top election official in contempt, his attorney signaled on Thursday that he may continue to defy an order blocking a gerrymandered GOP map for the midterms. However,…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (366+ words) Thirty states facing U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) lawsuits over voter records have been ordered to preserve all 2024 election files under a “litigation hold” — or risk criminal sanctions. “The purpose of this letter is to notify you of your obligations to take…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (283+ words) A federal judge rejected a last-minute bid from Missouri’s top election official to avoid a state Supreme Court hearing Thursday morning on whether he is in contempt of court for ordering local officials to use a voting map the justices…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (216+ words) The decision means the gerrymander won’t be used in the 2026 midterms. Local election officials were caught in a bind after the Missouri Supreme Court blocked the gerrymandered map only for a federal district court to quickly issue a separate order…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (367+ words) Opponents of Missouri’s GOP gerrymander asked the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to temporarily block a district court order that has thrown elections into last-minute chaos, with local officials overdue to finalize ballots for the 2026 midterms. Missouri had a Sept. 8 deadline…...

3+ day, 17+ hour 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…...

3+ day, 19+ hour 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…...

3+ day, 20+ hour 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…...