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It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.

The decision is a major victory for citizen-led democracy in Montana, where the state constitution expressly reserves the powers of initiative and referendum to the people. It also delivers a…

The involvement of the two lawyers in a state where President Donald Trump challenged the 2020 election results adds to concerns that the administration’s monitoring program for the fall — which it ha...

The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.

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DOJ's planned effort represents an extraordinary expansion of federal election monitoring. It has already sparked confrontations with state officials and concerns about voter intimidation.

The Supreme Court sent two redistricting cases out of Washington back to a lower court for new proceedings in light of its Louisiana v. Callais decision, which gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Ac...

Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.

We’re waiting for a federal court to rule on a third prong of Trump’s voter suppression scheme — one you might not have heard much about.

The mail voting measure led to nearly 3,000 mail ballots getting rejected in the Nov. 2025 election, in a state where 80% of voters vote absentee.

Despite his request for a federal investigation into ERIC, the board's executive director appeared to know very little about the organization during a meeting earlier this week.

The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic…

The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.

The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...

“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.

The ruling means Kansas election officials must continue counting ballots postmarked by Election Day and received within the following three days, including in the upcoming November elections.