Nevada Independent: The Trump campaign and its allies filed a lawsuit Friday challenging a Nevada law allowing elections officials to accept mail ballots for up to four business days after Election Day, as long as they are postmarked before polls… Continue reading

AP: Nearly two months after the election, a recount settled the outcome in a Northern California U.S. House primary contest, breaking a mathematically improbable tie for second place but also spotlighting the lengthy stretch it took count the votes. Most… Continue reading

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LAT: Alex Lopez doesn’t contest that Joe Biden was elected president in 2020. His concern lies with how those results came to be. “By the numbers? He absolutely won it. Ethically? Probably not,” said the 38-year-old Anaheim resident, who works… Continue reading

Jane Timm for NBC News: Election officials across the country are leaving their jobs at the highest rates in decades, according to new research shared first with NBC News, putting thousands of new officials in place to oversee a tense… Continue reading

Fort Worth Star-Telegram: The Tarrant County Election Board Tuesday approved an initiative to use pre-numbered ballots in the general election in November.  In a briefing to the county commissioners ahead of the board’s vote, Tarrant County Election Administrator Clint… Continue reading

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Wisconsin voters on Tuesday approved two referendums that change the state Constitution to prohibit clerks from using private grants to administer elections and add that only appointed election officials can perform tasks to conduct elections. With over 99%… Continue reading

Dennis Mema has posted this draft on SSRN (53 Pub. Con. L. J. 261 (2023)). Here is the abstract: The continuous and successful holding of elections stands as one of the foundational pillars of American democracy. In the two decades… Continue reading

You can find the majority opinion and the dissent at this link. The majority holds that the provision applies only to the question of who is eligible to vote, not whether an eligible voters’ votes are counted. The court… Continue reading

The Record: U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency will not identify the latest leaders of their joint election security task force, in part to shield them from the threats and harassment other election officials have received for merely… Continue reading

New explainer from the Bipartisan Policy Center, Issue One, and the R Street Institute.