1+ day, 2+ hour 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, 10+ 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…...

2+ day, 17+ 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…...

3+ day, 21+ 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, 27+ min 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…...

4+ day, 1+ 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…...

4+ day, 1+ 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,…...

4+ day, 2+ 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, 3+ 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, 5+ 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…...