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| Oct 2, 2026 | Trump administration’s quiet move makes it harder for some US citizens abroad to vote, lawsuit says | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI
The Democratic National Committee on Thursday filed a lawsuit alleging that President Donald Trump’s administration secretly changed a postcard used by U.S. citizens overseas i... |
| Sep 24, 2026 | Elections Staff Earn Federal Election Administration Certification | Six Election Services staff members recently earned the U.S. Election Assistance Commission's (EAC) Certificate of Federal Professional Training, a national credential for election professionals dedicated to expanding their knowledge, skill... |
| Sep 1, 2026 | USPS Mail Ballot Portal’s Zero-Tolerance Scan Rule Ignores Its Own Inspector General’s Error Data | By Shannon Harwood
Published: Sep 01 2026, 11:37 AM EDT
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| Aug 12, 2026 | Democrats' battle between progressive and moderate in Wisconsin governor's race too close to call | Democratic socialist Francesca Hong and moderate David Crowley were locked in a tighter-than-expected battle for Wisconsin's closely watched Democratic gubernatorial primary election on Tuesday (Aug 12), in a key test for the appeal of prog... |
| Aug 10, 2026 | NDAA-Certified Royal Navy Cameras Sent Signals to China for Five Months | By Daniel Butler
Published: Aug 10 2026, 11:01 AM EDT
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| Aug 7, 2026 | County Election Board Joins National Poll Worker Recruitment Day | CARTERET COUNTY, N.C. (August 7, 2026) – The Carteret County Board of Elections is asking local residents to help with elections by serving at local voting sites. The County is teaming up with the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) t... |
| Jul 11, 2026 | U.S. Futures: Economic Currents, Political Shifts, and AI's Grip | The U.S. landscape is dynamic. Economic buoyancy contrasts with underlying softness. Artificial intelligence propels stock market gains. Yet, broader GDP growth remains modest. The Federal Reserve navigates inflation and interest rate polic... |
| Jul 10, 2026 | Trump purges Election Assistance Commission members, months before midterms | President Donald Trump ousted the three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission.
Democrats blasted Trump’s gutting of the EAC, an independent federal agency that helps administer election funds, calling it just the latest ex... |
| Jul 10, 2026 | Donald Trump ousts election commission members in latest push to reshape US voting process | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By BILL BARROW
President Donald Trump has ousted members of a bipartisan federal election commission that resisted his efforts to require would-be voters to document their U.S. citizenship before r... |
| Mar 19, 2026 | Safeguarding Elections: The SAVE America Act and Its Constitutional Showdown | The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, known as the SAVE America Act, sparks national debate. It seeks to impose new federal requirements on American voters. Proponents champion election integrity. Opponents warn of massive voter dis... |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Everything to know about the SAVE America Act voter ID bill | The SAVE America Act is a controversial proposal pushed by Trump and supported by hard-line and mainstream Republicans.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., promised a vote on the bill this week, and drawn-out debate is expected.
Demo... |
| Mar 16, 2026 | SAVE Act has no basis in the Constitution – and ignores precedent that only states decide who gets to vote (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By John J. Martin
The Republican-led House of Representatives voted Feb. 11, 2026 to approve the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act – or SAVE America Act. The bill would require individuals t... |
| Mar 11, 2026 | FACT FOCUS: The Trump administration is falsely claiming Jimmy Carter was against mail-in voting | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MELISSA GOLDIN
The Trump administration is using a 20-year-old report to misrepresent former President Jimmy Carter’s views on mail-in and absentee ballots as it pushes for federal legislation t... |
| Jun 14, 2025 | US judge blocks Trump election order, says states can count late mail-in ballots | BOSTON: A federal judge on Friday (Jun 13) blocked key elements of US President Donald Trump's executive order overhauling federal elections, ruling that several provisions likely violated the Constitution and intruded on state powers to re... |
| Jun 6, 2025 | Federal vs. state power at issue in a hearing over Trump’s election overhaul executive order | Trump’s election directive was part of a flurry of executive orders he has issued in the opening months of his second term, many of which have drawn swift legal challenges. It follows years of him falsely claiming that his loss to Democrat ... |
| May 21, 2025 | The Battle Over Ballots: Decoding the QR Code Controversy | In the realm of American democracy, ballots are the sacred vessels of voter choice. Yet, a new storm brews over the use of QR codes on these ballots. This controversy is not just about technology; it’s about trust, transparency, and the ver... |
| May 19, 2025 | Trump order targets barcodes on ballots. They’ve long been a source of misinformation | Colorado’s secretary of state, Democrat Jena Griswold, decided in 2019 to stop using ballots with QR codes, saying at the time that voters “should have the utmost confidence that their vote will count.” Amanda Gonzalez, the elections clerk ... |
| Apr 24, 2025 | Judge halts parts of Trump’s overhaul of US elections, including proof-of-citizenship requirement | Accordingly, she granted a preliminary injunction to stop the citizenship requirement from moving forward while the lawsuit plays out.
The judge also blocked part of the Republican president’s order requiring public assistance enrollees to ... |
| Apr 24, 2025 | US election officials question agency about Trump’s order overhauling election operations | The meeting was largely an opportunity for election officials to ask the four EAC commissioners about Trump’s executive order and share their concerns about its effects on election administration and voting.
“I can see on your faces there’s... |
| Apr 17, 2025 | Federal judge will hear arguments as groups try to block Trump’s executive order on elections | The plaintiffs also argue the order violates the Constitution, which says that states — not the president — get to decide the “times, places and manner” of how elections are run. The Constitution’s so-called Elections Clause also gives Cong... |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship | Republicans have defended that measure as necessary to restore public confidence in elections. Voting in federal elections by noncitizens is already illegal and can result in felony charges and deportation.
Voting rights groups have express... |
| Oct 25, 2024 | The Legal Battlefield: Trump, Smith, and the RNC's New Strategy | In the high-stakes game of American politics, the courtroom has become a battleground. Former President Donald Trump is once again in the crosshairs of legal scrutiny. His recent declaration to fire special counsel Jack Smith “within 2 seco... |
| Oct 24, 2024 | National Politics | The RNC is rebuilding its legal operation after Trump allies’ failed effort to undo the 2020 race | “What we have seen in court over the course of the last six months and as we’ve ramped up to these 130-plus lawsuits is a testament to making sure that we’re working with the states and working with the courts to get a really truly, respons... |
| Oct 22, 2024 | Barriers at the Polls Continue to Discourage Disabled Americans from Voting in November’s Presidential Election | Despite long-standing federal protections, disabled voters continue to struggle to take part in the election process.
People are people first. We all have the right to vote, and that should never be denied to anyone based on their disabilit... |
| Oct 18, 2024 | National Politics | How one swing-state county has escaped election conspiracies | Pennsylvania may rank among the most contested states in the bitterest national election in recent U.S. history. But Mercer County — through some combination of its history, culture and grassroots efforts to bolster voter trust — has thus f... |
| Oct 14, 2024 | National Politics | Republican lawsuits target rules for overseas voters, but those ballots are already sent | Who are these voters?
Congress passed a law in 1986 that was signed by then-President Ronald Reagan requiring states to allow certain groups of citizens to register and vote absentee in federal elections. Known as the Uniformed and Overseas... |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Justice Department Works to Ensure Equal Access to the Ballot on National Voter Registration Day and Beyond | When signing the Voting Rights Act in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson called on leaders to register voters and to use the courts if necessary to defend the right.
Today, hundreds of organizations and thousands of volunteers will help hund... |
| Sep 9, 2024 | USAGov's guide to voting in 2024 | WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Whether you're a seasoned voter or a first timer, it's important to keep track of key deadlines and requirements before Election Day. Prepare well ahead of November 5 with this official guide from U... |
| Jul 30, 2024 | National Politics | Wanted: Poll workers. Must love democracy | “Serving as a poll worker is the single most impactful, nonpartisan way that any individual person can engage in the elections this year,” said Marta Hanson, the national program manager for Power the Polls, one of the leading nonpartisan g... |
| Jun 6, 2024 | Senate Rules Committee Advances Bills to Address Harmful AI in Elections | On May 15, 2024, the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules & Administration marked up and advanced three bills addressing the role of AI in elections: the Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act, the AI Transparency in Elections Act, and ... |
| Jun 5, 2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Elizabeth Kopple: What volunteering as a poll worker taught me about politics | Everything about the work surprised me. The entire process had become digitized, with procedures in place to keep the voting data secure. Each evening, the team printed the voting reports, counted all the ballots (voted, provisional, condit... |
| Aug 31, 2023 | Which Disability Issues Will Disabled Voters Raise In The 2024 Elections? | 2024 Election Issuesgetty |
| Oct 30, 2022 | Election deniers could win vital races in the midterms. Experts worry that some could refuse to certify the 2024 election if the GOP candidate loses. | Arizona Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake. AP Photo/Matt York
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Election deniers are running in key battleground states during the 2022 midterms.
Kari Lake and Mark Finchem are going for two positions that could influence ... |
| Aug 15, 2022 | The Republican Women of Baltimore County & the Patriot Club of America Request an Audit of the 2022 General Election | Findings of numerous voting anomalies* in the 2020 Presidential Election equate to major voting roll clean up need ahead of 2022 General Election POTOMAC, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES, August 15, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- THE REPUBLICAN WOMEN o... |
| Aug 12, 2022 | Warner asks Citizens to Volunteer now to be a Poll Worker for November 8 General Election | Charleston, W.Va. – In preparation for the state's November 8th General Election, WV Secretary of State Mac Warner is asking registered voters to consider becoming a poll worker in their home county.
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission ... |
| Apr 27, 2022 | An Online Resource For Understanding Disability ‘By The Numbers’ | Disability Statistics getty |
| Apr 16, 2022 | LaRose Takes Important Step to Boost Accuracy of Ohio Voter Rolls and Keep Elections Secure | Ohio is the gold standard of election administration, and in 2020, more Ohioans voted in the presidential election than in any election in state history. Such access to the ballot is only possible thanks to the security protocols in place t... |
| Sep 20, 2021 | Democrats’ ‘bold’ new attempt at bipartisan voting rights reform is failing to win over Manchin’s GOP allies | Martin Luther King III hugs Cliff Albright, executive director of Black Voters Matter, as he arrives to speak at a rally for voting rights, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
Senate Democrats w... |
| Jul 30, 2021 | Officials outline a looming election funding crisis and hope Democrats will pay for critical upgrades in their high-stakes budget package | In this Oct. 28, 2016, file photo election judges look over ballots during a media tour of the Denver Elections Division headquarters, in Denver AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File
Election officials and advocates want Congress to invest big su... |
| Mar 26, 2021 | Georgia Has Enacted Sweeping Changes to Its Voting Law. Here's Why Voting Rights Advocates Are Worried | Georgia enacted a sweeping overhaul of its election law on Thursday, making it the first 2020 battleground state to introduce new voting restrictions as Republicans have put forth similar bills in dozens of state legislatures across the cou... |
| Feb 21, 2021 | 2020 Election Most Accessible In Years But More Help Required For Some Disabilities | Voters at polling place.getty |
| Nov 19, 2020 | Georgia’s top election official pushes back on baseless fraud claims by Trump and the GOP, accuses Doug Collins of doing ‘nothing when he was a Congressman’ for voting reform | Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks during a news conference on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020, Brynn Anderson/AP
When President-elect Joe Biden won Georgia, President Donald Trump and top Republicans condemned the state’s top el... |
| Oct 30, 2020 | Cyber Command's Role in Election Defense: Important, But Not a Panacea | As Election Day 2020 draws near, there has been a wave of reporting about adversarial use of cyberspace to attempt to interfere—again—in a U.S. election. A few weeks ago, there were reports that both U.S. Cyber Command and Microsoft—purport... |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Mail Voting Litigation in 2020, Part IV: Verifying Mail Ballots | This post is the fourth of a five-part series on litigation about mail voting during the 2020 general election. This series is part of Lawfare's collaboration with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project.
The first three parts of this se... |
| Oct 28, 2020 | Mail Voting Litigation in 2020, Part II: Submission of Mail-In Ballots | This post is the second of a five-part series on litigation about mail voting during the 2020 general election. This series is part of Lawfare's collaboration with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project.
As the coronavirus pandemic has ... |
| Oct 26, 2020 | How To Vote Safely With The Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic | Wearing a face mask while going to polling locations is one important way to reduce the risk of ... [+] Covid-19 coronavirus transmission while voting. Here artist and actress Annika Connor urges people to vote in the 2020 elections. (Photo... |
| Oct 24, 2020 | As Covid-19 Drives Up Election Costs For Strapped Counties, 2,500 Jurisdictions Apply For Zuckerberg Funded Grants | WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES - 2020/10/22: A view of an official Mail-in ballot for the ... [+] 2020 general election. Mail-in Ballots have gone out and they are being returned. (Photo by Aimee Dilger/SOPA Images/LightRocket vi... |
| Oct 20, 2020 | How To Cast Your Vote Against Election Scams | getty |
| Oct 19, 2020 | Election Observation: Rules and Laws | Lawfare is partnering with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project to produce a series on election integrity in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. The Healthy Elections Project aims to assist election officials and the public as the na... |
| Oct 8, 2020 | Why Election Night Is Likely Not To See A Declared Winner | GLEN BURNIE, MD - OCTOBER 07: Signage for ballots with errors is seen in a warehouse at the Anne ... [+] Arundel County Board of Elections headquarters on October 7, 2020 in Glen Burnie, Maryland. The ballot canvas for mail-in and absentee ... |
| Sep 18, 2020 | New Mexico’s 2020 Primary in the Wake of the Coronavirus | Lawfare is partnering with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project to produce a series on election integrity in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. The Healthy Elections Project aims to assist election officials and the public as the na... |
| Sep 15, 2020 | Stressed About the Election? Here’s How to Become a Poll Worker | Registration, education and action. We're supporting voting in partnership with iamavoter.com, a nonpartisan movement encouraging voting, and civic engagement.
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While many Americans will likely vote by mail this election due to th... |
| Sep 15, 2020 | The 2020 Minnesota Primary in the Wake of the Coronavirus | Lawfare is partnering with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project to produce a series on election integrity in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. The Healthy Elections Project aims to assist election officials and the public as the na... |
| Sep 11, 2020 | Facebook will give employees paid time off to work at polling places on Election Day amid national poll worker shortages | Facebook will give its employees paid time off if they sign up to work at polling places on Election Day, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday.
Facebook users in the US who are over 18 will also be sent a notification about how they can sig... |
| Sep 4, 2020 | Voatz Calls for Restrictions on Independent Cybersecurity Research in Supreme Court Brief | Blockchain voting startup Voatz argued that bug bounty programs concerning cybersecurity should be operated under strict supervision in a "friend of the court" brief before the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS).
Voatz we... |
| Sep 1, 2020 | Twitter is making it easier for users to get accurate voter registration information ahead of November's presidential election | Twitter said Monday it is making it easier for users to find accurate voter registration information as the 2020 presidential election draws near.
When users search for keywords related to voter registration, a blurb will appear offering to... |
| Aug 27, 2020 | The Rise of Ballot Drop Boxes Due to the Coronavirus | Lawfare is partnering with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project to produce a series on election integrity in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. The Healthy Elections Project aims to assist election officials and the public as the na... |
| Aug 14, 2020 | Texas 2020 Elections: Preparations and Considerations | Lawfare is partnering with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project to produce a series on election integrity in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. The Healthy Elections Project aims to assist election officials and the public as the na... |
| Aug 4, 2020 | Nation's top election administrator concerned about absent poll workers, long lines, lax federal funding and low voter registration numbers | Residents wait in long line to vote in a presidential primary election outside the Riverside High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on April 7, 2020. Photo by Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images
President Donald Trump predicts the 2020 vot... |
| Apr 17, 2020 | Election Modifications to Avoid During the COVID-19 Pandemic | As we approach the presidential election this November, election officials are developing plans to deal with the unique risks posed by the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. I have written about how states have grappled with past elect... |
| Feb 28, 2020 | States and Cities Could Use Billions of Unspent DHS Grants to #Protect2020 | Federal and state officials recently told a Senate Committee that state and local governments need additional cybersecurity resources. Their testimony follows the gatherings of the nation’s state secretaries of state and election directors ... |
| Jan 31, 2020 | Election Security Faces First Major Test In Iowa | Getty |
| Nov 6, 2018 | Voting Device Manufacturer Encourages Users To Use (And Re-Use) Easily-Guessed Passwords | As Election Day 2K18 rolls on, the good news continues to roll in, he said in his most Professor Farnsworth voice. It’s never good news, not if we’re talking voting machine security. Kim Zetter, writing for Motherboard, has obtained a manua... |
| Nov 6, 2018 | The ugly truth about voting security: States won’t fix it | Enlarge / ATLANTA, GA - NOVEMBER 06: Sloane (no last name given), 2, waits between her father's legs as he and other voters cast their ballots at a polling station set up at Grady High School for the mid-term elections on November 6, 2018 i... |
| Nov 5, 2018 | Voting Machine Manual Instructed Election Officials to Use Weak Passwords | States and counties have had two years since the 2016 presidential election to educate themselves about security best practices and to fix security vulnerabilities in their election systems and processes. But despite widespread concerns abo... |
| Jul 26, 2018 | 2 days of the most advanced election security training just went down — at a West Virginia Holiday Inn | MORGANTOWN, West Virginia — A Holiday Inn in Morgantown, West Virginia, was the site of some of the nation’s most advanced cybersecurity preparations this week.
That’s where nearly all of the state’s 55 county clerks gathered on Monday and ... |
| Jul 24, 2018 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Defending Against Deep Fakes with Lifelogs, Watermarks … and Tatts? | In our 227th episode of The Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker interviews Bobby Chesney (@BobbyChesney), who recently co-authored a paper with Danielle Citron (@DanielleCitron) titled, “Deep Fakes: A Looming Challenge for Privacy, Democracy, a... |
| Jul 18, 2018 | Russian indictments show that the US needs federal oversight of election security | Adam Eichen Contributor
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| Feb 7, 2017 | House moves to eliminate commission overseeing voting system security | Amid allegations at the highest levels that all is not right with America’s voting system, it seems strange that legislation would be proposed that eliminates an organization created specifically to maintain that voting system’s security. B... |
| Nov 2, 2016 | The tech that could change voting in America | It’s been impossible to escape the US presidential election this year. Eye-popping revelations are commonplace, tensions are high, and November 8th is taking its sweet time getting here. To ease our nerves momentarily, let’s focus on one as... |
| Jul 13, 2016 | Electronic voting may be risky, but what about vote counting? | By Robert Merkel
Several advantages of online voting were identified in a recent post by Conversation columnist and software researcher David Glance who backed the introduction of such a scheme in Australia.
He is correct that an online vot... |
| Sep 23, 2015 | Everyone Counts Gets $20M Vote of Confidence for Electoral Tech | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
San Diego-based Everyone Counts, founded to provide secure, software-as-a-service voting systems that eliminate the need for outdated voting machines or paper ballots, has rai... |
| Nov 4, 2014 | The Backbone Of American Elections: Pen And Paper | Chris Kelly Contributor
Editor’s note: Chris Kelly is a Silicon Valley attorney and served as the first Chief Privacy Officer, General Counsel, and Head of Global Public Policy for Facebook, which he left in 2009 to seek the Democratic nomi... |
| Leaked documents show White House blocked government website used to recruit election workers during the pandemic | Two parts of the federal government fought during the summer over approval for a website designed to recruit election poll workers, according to emails obtained by Insider. Associated Press/Brynn Anderson
Government emails and documents exc... |
| ‘We’re going to hang you’: DOJ cracks down on threats to election workers ahead of high-stakes midterms | The Department of Justice has reported a string of violent threats against election workers ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm elections.
Threats against election workers and officials have increased since the 2020 presidential election.
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