NYT: For months, Republican leaders in Texas resisted calls by Democrats to allow widespread mail-in voting, more swayed by President Trump’s concerns about mail-ballot “fraud” than by the threat the coronavirus might pose at polling places.The pandemic would have run… Continue reading

The Macon Telegraph reports.

CNN: A group of civic-minded organizations have joined together to recruit thousands of volunteers to work the polls this November, as states grapple with how the coronavirus pandemic could affect voting in the fall. The nonprofit organizations and businesses… Continue reading

Nate Persily and Charles Stewart for The Atlantic.

New policy brief from Maria Carnovale of Duke.

Lexington Herald-Leader oped.

NYT reports.

AP reports.

AP reports.

The Texas Tribune reports.

Al.com reports.

Kim Zetter: The hourslong wait times that snarled the March 3 primary in Los Angeles County stemmed from malfunctions in the electronic tablets used to check in voters at the polls, according to an unpublicized county report that adds… Continue reading

AP: Faulty software or poorly calibrated vote-tabulation scanners used to count mailed-in ballots in this week’s chaotic Georgia primary may have prevented thousands of votes from being counted, election officials and voting integrity activists say.The issue was identified in… Continue reading