23+ hour, 32+ 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…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (394+ words) Access to the ballot in the 2026 midterm elections now sits in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices are fully briefed, and a ruling is expected imminently on whether to lift a block on a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) rule…...

1+ day, 21+ hour 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…...

3+ day, 18+ 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, 21+ 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, 22+ hour ago   (642+ words) After the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked Missouri from using a gerrymandered congressional map favoring the GOP during the midterms, far-right figures and election deniers had a full-blown meltdown on social media, raging against the Court’s conservative majority and effectively accusing…...

3+ day, 23+ 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…...

4+ day, 25+ min 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, 2+ 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…...

4+ day, 2+ 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…...