3+ day, 17+ 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…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (321+ words) The Indiana Supreme Court is set to decide whether a Republican state senator who bucked President Donald Trump’s demand for a gerrymandered map will keep his seat in a race that’s come down to a narrow three-vote margin. Despite threats…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1186+ words) Election Day is just under two months away. But voters still don’t know for certain whether they will be able to cast their ballots by mail. That question is now in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. Many observers…...

4+ day, 20+ hour 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…...

4+ day, 20+ hour 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…...

4+ day, 21+ 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, 23+ hour 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+ day, 23+ hour ago   (343+ words) By Jacob Knutson, Yunior Rivas The U.S. Postal Service’s internal watchdog confirmed Tuesday it is investigating allegations from a whistleblower who warned that the agency’s rushed implementation of President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting order could disrupt the midterms and prevent voters…...

6+ day, 20+ min ago   (131+ words) Democracy Docket The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to lift a lower court order and allow it to use a flawed federal immigration database to initiate voter registration purges. The petition marks the department’s latest rushed…...

6+ day, 1+ 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....