Texas Tribune: Election day has come and gone, but it remains unclear how many Texans were unable to vote after trying to cast ballots by mail under new Republican laws restricting that voting option.In the first test of new… Continue reading

Texas Tribune: Thousands of applications for mail-in ballots submitted by Texas voters have been delayed — and some voters may ultimately not receive ballots — because Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick‘s campaign instructed eligible voters to send requests for… Continue reading

Texas Tribune: A new Texas law that keeps local election officials from encouraging voters to request mail-in ballots likely violates the First Amendment, a federal judge ruled late Friday.Following a testy three-hour hearing earlier in the day, Federal District Judge… Continue reading

Patrick Marley for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

Mother Jones: States are not engaging in trying to suppress voters whatsoever,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declared last year.Facts on the ground in Georgia tell a different story. A new data analysis by Mother Jones shows that… Continue reading

AP: A statewide court on Friday declared that Pennsylvania’s expansive two-year-old mail-in voting law is unconstitutional, agreeing with challenges by Republicans who soured on mail-in voting after then-President Donald Trump began baselessly attacking it as rife with fraud in… Continue reading

Alexa Ura for Texas Tribune: Barely started down the path toward the first elections conducted under voting restrictions enacted last year by Republican lawmakers, Texas voters and local election officials have found themselves enveloped in a fog of errors,… Continue reading

New article from Adam Bonica, Jacob M. Grumbach, Charlotte Hill, & Hakeem Jefferson in Electoral Studies: The COVID-19 crisis has generated interest in all-mail voting (AMV) as a potential policy solution for avoiding in-person elections. However, the quality of… Continue reading