Detroit News: A Wayne County judge has denied a request Monday to change Detroit’s absentee voting processes ahead of Tuesday’s election, ruling that all of the claims advanced in a lawsuit filed by GOP Secretary of State candidate Kristina… Continue reading

In the Jacksonville racial gerrymandering case that Harvard Law School’s Election Law Clinic is litigating, the Eleventh Circuit just denied the city’s effort to stay the district court’s decision striking down seven city council districts. This means that Jacksonville will… Continue reading

On Election Night in 2012, I first noticed the phenomenon that I termed the “blue shift” and since 2020 has often been called “the red mirage.” While watching the returns coming in, I was attempting to calculate what… Continue reading

VoteBeat: After spending nearly a week in jail, Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips — leaders of Texas-based right-wing voting activist group True the Vote — have been released. They’d been held for contempt of court since Halloween, having repeatedly refused… Continue reading

Politico: Members of far-right social media sites Gab, Gettr and Truth Social who believe fraud was committed in the 2020 election have stated they intend to serve as official poll workers in their jurisdictions on Tuesday, according to a new… Continue reading

Detroit News: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the appeal of Michigan Republicans who had challenged the state’s new congressional map as drawn by the redistricting commission last year.The Republicans had argued that the congressional map unjustifiably deviated from… Continue reading

Release from All Voting is Local.

AJC: A Cobb County judge agreed to extend the absentee ballot return deadline during an emergency hearing Monday after Cobb Elections officials failed to send up to 1,036 ballots to voters in October, an initial investigation found.“We know it wasn’t… Continue reading

WaPo: The infographic spreading across the internet in the final days before Tuesday’s midterm elections is adorned with an American flag and resembles a public service announcement reminding people to vote.But the message is not merely to cast a ballot,… Continue reading

WaPo: Republican officials and candidates in at least three battleground states are pushing to disqualify thousands of mail ballots after urging their own supporters to vote on Election Day, in what critics are calling a concerted attempt at partisan… Continue reading

NYT: For the vast majority of the 40 million Americans who have already voted in the midterm elections, the process was smooth and unremarkable.But the broad view belies signs of strain: A court ordered armed activists to stop patrolling drop… Continue reading

AJC.

WaPo: Officials in a handful of closely contested states are warning that the winners of tight races may not be known on election night, raising the possibility of a delay that former president Donald Trump and his allies could exploit… Continue reading

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