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Dominion, the voting tech company at the center of false 2020 claims, is sold
NPR Washington Desk, NPR
Dominion Voting Systems, the company at the center of false fraud claims about the 2020 election, has been acquired by an entity called Liberty Vote.
Oct 9, 2025, 9:32 PM

Supreme Court ruling could let GOP add 19 House seats and “clear the path for a one-party system”
Blaise Malley, Salon
Supreme Court case could wipe out all Democratic-held seats in some deep-red Southern states.
Oct 8, 2025, 5:40 PM

Maine Woman Discovers Election Ballots in Amazon Package
Steve Robinson, Themainewire.com
Hundreds of ballots found in Amazon shipment as Maine considers "Yes on One" Voter ID law to secure elections. Shenna Bellows on the hot seat.
Oct 2, 2025, 12:53 AM

Why Are Republicans Intent on Suppressing Their Own Voters?
Jacob Kenswil, Slate Magazine
Hint: It has a lot to do with Donald Trump’s delusions.
Sep 4, 2025, 9:45 AM

Trump administration blocks groups from voter registration at naturalization events
Ashley Lopez, NPR
Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced.
Sep 2, 2025, 7:16 PM

Trump to order voter ID for every vote, ‘no exceptions’
Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English
US president is seeking to overhaul country's electoral system, falsely claiming his 2020 loss was a result of fraud.
Aug 31, 2025, 5:08 AM

Trump says Voter ID must be part of every single vote amid plans to ban mail-in ballots
Express Web Desk, The Indian Express
Trump has long questioned the US electoral system and falsely claimed that the 2020 US presidential election was rigged and the result had widespread fraud.
Aug 31, 2025, 3:09 AM
Trump says he will order voter ID requirement for every vote
Reuters, Yahoo Entertainment
Trump has long questioned the U.S. electoral system and continues to falsely claim that his 2020 loss to Democratic President Joe Biden was the result of...
Aug 31, 2025, 2:02 AM
Georgia's Fulton County fined $10,000 a day for not appointing Republican election board nominees
KATE BRUMBACK, Yahoo Entertainment
The government of Georgia’s most populous county must pay $10,000 a day until it appoints two Republican nominees to its election board under a judge's...
Aug 27, 2025, 8:24 PM
NAACP sues Texas over new maps, calling them racially gerrymandered
Darryl Coote, UPI.com
The NAACP is suing Texas over its new congressional maps, calling them racially gerrymandered in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
Aug 27, 2025, 5:15 AM

Trump Claims ‘Huge Victory’ After Texas Passes New Voting Maps
Zachary Folk, Forbes Staff, Zachary Folk, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/, Forbes
Texas Republicans passed the map early on Saturday morning after a failed filibuster attempt from Democrats.
Aug 23, 2025, 7:43 PM
President Trump Targets Voting Machines, Mail-In Ballots; Seeks Watermark Paper Ballots
Yahoo Entertainment
Aug 23, 2025, 4:00 PM

DHS to states: Follow our voting rules or lose out on election security money
Miles Parks, NPR
The Trump administration has tied new requirements to election security grants. Some states told NPR they're passing on the grants as a result.
Aug 22, 2025, 9:00 AM

Voting officials are leaving their jobs at the highest rate in decades
Miles Parks, NPR
Some 2 in 5 of all the local officials who administered the 2020 election left their jobs before the 2024 cycle, new research has found.
Aug 20, 2025, 9:00 AM

Trump Claims He Was Asked For His License Plate At The Voting Booth
staff@jalopnik.com (Collin Woodard), Jalopnik
In a recent interview, Trump claimed that when he tried to vote, he was asked to provide his license plate number. Sure, thing. Whatever you say, Donald.
Aug 19, 2025, 12:40 PM

How Trump falsely claims US is the ‘only country’ that uses mail-in voting
Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English
Trump opposes postal voting, claiming inaccuracies, but many countries use the system.
Aug 19, 2025, 12:01 PM

Putin and Zelenskyy could meet. And, Trump wants to stop voting by mail
Brittney Melton, NPR
Trump says there are plans underway for Putin and Zelenskyy to meet to discuss an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine. And, Trump wants to stop states from voting by mail.
Aug 19, 2025, 11:17 AM
Trump’s remarkable statement against states’ rights
Analysis by Aaron Blake, CNN, CNN
Donald Trump’s intentions to get rid of mail ballots and voting machines made clear the president elected to lead the party of states’ rights has very little...
Aug 18, 2025, 9:55 PM
Trump vows to change how elections are run. The US Constitution doesn't give him that power
NICHOLAS RICCARDI and ALI SWENSON, Yahoo Entertainment
President Donald Trump on Monday vowed more changes to the way elections are conducted in the U.S., but based on the Constitution there is little to nothing ...
Aug 18, 2025, 8:24 PM

Trump Pledges Unconstitutional Order to Limit Mail-In Voting After Putin Chat
Nikkimccannramirez, Rolling Stone
The president demanded that states do what the federal government “tells them,” after announcing an executive order aimed at banning mail-in voting
Aug 18, 2025, 2:47 PM

Election workers fear threats and intimidation without feds' support in 2026
Jessica Lyons, Theregister.com
'Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst,' one tells The Reg Feature Bill Gates, an Arizona election official and former Maricopa County supervisor, says that the death threats started shortly after the 2020 presidential election.…
Aug 16, 2025, 4:16 PM
We need a populist, pro-democracy movement, not more gerrymandering
Ruth Conniff, Wisconsin Examiner
Voting rights activists continue to be divided over gerrymandering. Here in Wisconsin, members of the Fair Maps Coalition, who just recently succeeded in...
Aug 16, 2025, 3:00 PM
Jamelle Bouie on the Death of the Fourth American Republic
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
This is a great piece from Jamelle Bouie on the likely death of the Voting Rights Act and, zooming out, the end of an era in Ameri
Aug 6, 2025, 11:30 PM

60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threats
Hansi Lo Wang, NPR
Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the Supreme Court could curtail its remaining protections for minority voters.
Aug 6, 2025, 9:00 AM