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.

President Trump Targets Voting Machines, Mail-In Ballots; Seeks Watermark Paper Ballots

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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 ...

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

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.…

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...

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

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.

Despite grand claims, a new report shows noncitizen voting hasn't materialized

Miles Parks, NPR

New research confirms what election experts have said all along: Noncitizen voting occasionally happens but in minuscule numbers, and not in any coordinated way.

A new Supreme Court case is an existential threat to the Voting Rights Act

Ian Millhiser, Vox

In mid-May, two Republicans on a federal appeals court declared that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — the landmark law that a Senate report once described as “the most successful civil rights statute in the history of the Nation” — is effectively null and void…

GOP Consultant Illegally Trying To Access Voting Equipment Ahead Of 2026 Elections

Conover Kennard, Crooksandliars.com

Jeff Small, a GOP consultant and former chief of staff to Rep. Lauren Boebert, who claimed to be calling on behalf of the White House, called ten county clerks in Colorado to request 3rd-party access to voting equipment. That's illegal, of course. This took p…

Democratic senators raise concerns about a new Trump citizenship data system

Jude Joffe-Block, NPR

After NPR reported on a Department of Homeland Security tool to check the citizenship of registered voters, three U.S. senators are expressing concern about accuracy, transparency and privacy.

Where the Voting Rights Act stands after the Supreme Court punts on a Louisiana case

Hansi Lo Wang, NPR

The Supreme Court delayed ruling on a Louisiana congressional redistricting case that some legal experts say could end up further weakening protections against maps that dilute minority voters' power.

Trump still would have won in 2024 even if everyone had turned out to vote, Pew finds

Domenico Montanaro, NPR

In 2024, 64% of the eligible-voting population turned out, the second highest in 120 years. New data show that even if all those voters who stayed home had voted, Trump would still be president today.

Zohran Mamdani Topples Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic Mayoral Primary

Solcyré Burga, Time

Cuomo, who long led polls in the Democratic primary, conceded Tuesday night before vote-counting was even finished.

How Ranked-Choice Voting in the New York City Mayoral Primary Works

Callum Sutherland, Time

Voters in the contentious Democratic primary are able to rank up to five candidates on their ballots rather than just picking a top choice.

The Myth of the Gen Z Red Wave

Jean M. Twenge, The Atlantic

The best available evidence suggests that the youth-vote shift in 2024 was more a one-off event than an ideological realignment.

Republicans reject ranked choice voting nationwide. Why?

Brigham Tomco, Deseret News

17 GOP states banned ranked choice voting. Utah could be next