How could Trump interfere in the midterms? Here's what voting officials are watching

Miles Parks, NPR

Less than a year from the midterm elections, state and local voting officials from both major political parties are actively preparing for the possibility of interference by the Trump administration.

WATCH: Federal court blocks Texas from using new voting map

ABC News

A federal court blocked the use of a new congressional map that would likely flip five House seats in the state of Texas.

Democratic state election officials demand answers on Justice Department's requests for voter data

CLAIRE RUSH, Yahoo Entertainment

Ten Democratic secretaries of state asked the Trump administration Tuesday to provide more information about its wide-ranging efforts to seek statewide voter...

Texas appeals ruling that Trump-urged voting map is racial gerrymandering

Blaise Gainey, NPR

A federal court in El Paso ruled that the redistricting backed by Trump and Republicans to reshape the map for the 2026 midterms illegally weakened the voting power of minorities.

Details Of DHS Agreement Reveal Risks Of Trump Administration’s Use Of Social Security Data For Voter Citizenship Checks

Jen Fifield, Techdirt

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. This year, when states began using an expanded Department of Homeland Security system to check their voter rolls for noncitizens, it was supposed to validate the T…

Justice Department sues to block California US House map in clash that could tip control of Congress

ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Yahoo Entertainment

The Justice Department on Thursday sued to block new congressional district boundaries approved by California voters last week, joining a court battle that...

The Supreme Court will decide whether to toss out thousands of ballots

Ian Millhiser, Vox

The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear Watson v. Republican National Committee, a case claiming that, for many decades, states have been counting ballots that should have been tossed out entirely.  The premise of the GOP’s argument in Watson …

A reporter outlines Trump's options to subvert the 2026 midterm elections

Tonya Mosley, NPR

The Atlantic journalist David A. Graham describes how Trump could potentially use troops near polling places, pressure local election workers and have federal agents seize voting machines.

Trump claims California election was rigged. Is he correct?

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

White House claims mail-in voting fraud, but evidence and data misrepresentation disprove widespread election rigging.

Democrats hit back and a winning message - four US election night takeaways

BBC News

It was an encouraging night for the Democratic Party who scored some decisive wins. Here's what we learned.

America reacts to US election results

Reuters, Yahoo Entertainment

(Reuters) -U.S. politicians and interest groups reacted to Democratic wins in a trio of races on Tuesday, the first major elections since Donald Trump...

WATCH: Democrat Zohran Mamdani will win the NYC mayoral race, ABC News projects

ABC News

Mamdani is set to be the city's first Muslim mayor of south Asian descent.

Could Trump curb voters’ rights before 2026 US midterms?

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

President Trump seeks to change US voting mechanisms before next year's elections.

Maine and Texas consider Republican-backed election proposals on voter ID, noncitizen voting

PATRICK WHITTLE, Yahoo Entertainment

Maine and Texas are the latest states to become involved in a nationwide Republican push to enact strict voter ID laws and highlight the rare problem of...

Republicans encourage voters to cast mail ballots, despite Trump's attacks

Will McDuffie, ABC News

Republican activists are trying to rally voters behind the practice.

Trump’s “Election Observers” Are a Sign of Something Much Worse on the Horizon

Shirin Ali, Slate Magazine

None of the election monitors will have much to do. That doesn't mean they’re not damaging.

Maya Wiley: Trump administration deploys election monitors to blue states. But will it stop there?

Yahoo Entertainment

Election Shenanigans Are Coming

David A. Graham, The Atlantic

Americans don’t have to imagine what attempts to subvert an election could look like, because it’s already happening in North Carolina.

“Rigged and stolen”: Trump calls for ban on mail-in, early voting ahead of midterms

Alex Galbraith, Salon

The president urged his party to put an end to mail-in ballots and early voting before the midterms.

Day 1 of early voting in NYC's 2025 general election concludes

Christian Santana, Elizabeth Shwe, Gothamist

Early voting in New York City and New Jersey began on Saturday. Turnout far exceeded that of the first day of early voting in 2021, when the last mayoral election took place. [ more › ]

Early voting in NYC begins Saturday. Here's what you need to know.

Brigid Bergin, Ryan Kost, Gothamist

Time to get those stylish stickers. Info on when and where to vote, along with who is on the ballot. [ more › ]

US Justice Department to send election observers to California, New Jersey

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

Republicans in both states have requested the Trump administration monitor for 'irregularities' over Democratic outcry.

It sure looks like the Voting Rights Act is doomed

Ian Millhiser, Vox

Two things were obvious at Wednesday morning’s Supreme Court argument in Louisiana v. Callais, a case asking the Court to abolish longstanding safeguards against racially gerrymandered legislative maps. The first thing is that the Court will split along party…

John Roberts is slowly dismantling America

David Daley, Salon

Twenty years of the Roberts Court has wreaked shocking damage. Is the Voting Rights Act next?