Wisconsin judge orders state to start verifying all voters’ citizenship - Votebeat
The ruling doesn’t specify how state agencies should handle the task, but sets a target for completion: the next election, in February.| Votebeat
The ruling doesn’t specify how state agencies should handle the task, but sets a target for completion: the next election, in February.| Votebeat
In Washington County, officials chose not to notify voters that their ballots were being rejected. In a victory for voting rights groups, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled against that policy.| Votebeat
Michael Gableman, a former state Supreme Court justice, now finds himself facing punishment from the very court he served on.| Votebeat
Says one election administrator: “One day it works and we can get stuff done, and the next day it doesn’t and nothing gets done.”| Votebeat
Pennsylvania is one of the few states to perform a risk-limiting audit, and this year the state is conducting its first statewide, pre-certification audit| Votebeat
A longstanding state law allows officials to remove ballots at random to iron out discrepancies in tallies. “Every one of those ballots — it’s an American citizen’s hopes and dreams,” says one former clerk.| Votebeat
Justin Heap’s office initially claimed he had no text messages to share, and then said they got lost in a damaged phone.| Votebeat
“It takes leadership from both sides to have cooler heads and to actually look at what’s really happening,” says a Republican official in a predominantly Democratic city.| Votebeat
Everyone agrees that a “clean” voter list is good practice. But people differ on how aggressively election officials should work to remove potentially ineligible voters.| Votebeat
Recorder Justin Heap has started a public fight with supervisors to try to get more power, and has implied he might sue if they don’t listen.| Votebeat
Recorder Stephen Richer and others made a name for themselves defending elections, but the new leaders have some questions.| Votebeat
The competitiveness of races for county recorder — and the rhetoric accompanying them — shows just how much the role has changed over the past four years.| Votebeat
The state Supreme Court decision is a victory for Meagan Wolfe, who became a target for Republicans after President Donald Trump lost Wisconsin in 2020.| Votebeat
In Brookfield, residents said drop boxes would eliminate a barrier for voters with disabilities and older adults who can’t make it to city hall. Officials turned them down, saying drop boxes were unnecessary in a post-pandemic election.| Votebeat
Voters in the town of Summit had the wrong Assembly candidates on their ballot. A losing candidate wants something done about it.| Votebeat
A liberal and conservative candidate are vying to determine the court’s ideological balance, which could prove especially consequential for election law.| Votebeat
It’s up to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to call a special election, but she hasn’t done so, or explained why.| Votebeat
Similar rules in other states have created disenfranchised thousands of voters.| Votebeat
The change lines up with priorities expressed by Republican leaders to require people to prove citizenship when they register to vote.| Votebeat
One of them is a local clerk facing felony charges for his role in a scheme to overturn Michigan’s voting results in 2020.| Votebeat
The city clerk’s office discovered the uncounted ballots, but didn’t report them until it was too late. “They should have asked someone,” said Ann Jacobs, a Democrat on the Wisconsin Elections Commission.| Votebeat
The commission’s first ever investigation will seek to understand how such lapses can be prevented.| Votebeat
Election officials in Wisconsin’s capital still don’t have all the answers, but they vow the errors won’t happen again.| Votebeat
The Arizona county has a new building, new leaders, and new plans for getting it right.| Votebeat
Un error estatal en el seguimiento de la ciudadanía podría dejar fuera del registro electoral a residentes de larga trayectoria en Arizona, muchos de los cuales ni siquiera saben que hay un problema con su registro.| Votebeat
The number of “federal-only” voters in Arizona is relatively small. But where they live and who they are provides clues about the potential impact of new voter citizenship laws nationwide.| Votebeat
The state Supreme Court ruled that it would be too late — and unfair — to remove voters from the rolls for state and local elections.| Votebeat
Records obtained by Votebeat help explain what Maribeth Witzel-Behl was up to when the crisis erupted in her office: a baking staycation.| Votebeat
Also on the ballot: a state constitutional amendment about voter ID requirements, and various local contests and referendums.| Votebeat
Pennsylvania’s highest court told three counties to comply with the court’s previous rulings on accepting undated or misdated mail ballots in their November election results.| Votebeat
The new case doesn’t change rules for ballot rejections in November, though the state Supreme Court could still step in.| Votebeat
The decision, focusing on the lower court’s jurisdiction, could affect thousands of mail voters in November’s election.| Votebeat
An erroneous mailing has caused confusion, but voters who get a letter demanding proof of citizenship need to act to keep voting in state and local elections.| Votebeat
State law gives the public wide access to a trove of records that, in some cases, can be used to figure out exactly how someone voted.| Votebeat
Secretary of State Adrian Fontes believes providing a tool to search ballot images and voting records would “get rid of the election fraud nonsense.”| Votebeat
Even the Democratic secretary of state backs Republican Sen. Ken Bennett’s proposal to release digital copies of cast ballots to the public.| Votebeat
Election offices have been besieged by requests for an obscure document sometimes produced by ballot tabulators. But it won’t show the fraud activists hope it will.| Votebeat
Recorder Justin Heap says the supervisors have failed to negotiate, while they say they have tried.| Votebeat
Some election officials are worried that the change in recently passed legislation will eliminate a cherished three-day break for election workers.| Votebeat
Getting both measures to the ballot could be difficult because of laws around signing the same petition twice.| Votebeat
The election schedule has already been consolidated to four dates, saving communities money and helping school districts plan their budgets.| Votebeat
The House could vote again another day. If approved, voters in 2026 would decide whether they want future voters to have to show proof of citizenship when they register.| Votebeat
Lots of people have looked for noncitizens who’d be willing to risk prison or deportation for the sake of voting in an election. So far, they’ve found very few.| Votebeat
In Texas, Republicans are more likely than Democrats to lack documented proof of citizenship, a study found.| Votebeat
Haoxiang Gao, a University of Michigan student, didn’t show up for a probable-cause hearing. He is facing felony charges after allegedly casting a ballot despite not being a citizen.| Votebeat
Voting rights advocates worry that the legislation could make it harder to get more people on the rolls.| Votebeat
The president had asserted authority to regulate voting that the Constitution grants explicitly to Congress and the states. Said the court: “Executive regulatory authority over federal elections does not appear to have crossed the Framers’ minds.”| Votebeat
Republicans in Michigan have rallied around such a requirement, especially following the charges against a foreign student who allegedly cast a ballot that was counted in the November 2024 election.| Votebeat
Texas doesn’t require hand-counts to be audited. This bill would make it easier to do so.| Votebeat
The problem may affect some of the longtime residents caught up in a state error tracking citizenship — some of whom still don’t know there’s a problem with their record.| Votebeat
A multistate coalition says Trump is trying to usurp state authority over how elections work.| Votebeat
A review from the Secretary of State’s office found 15 people who may have cast ballots in the general election despite not being a citizen, officials confirmed Thursday.| Votebeat
With more checklists and physical checks, city officials are confident they won’t let ballots go missing again.| Votebeat
About 200,000 voters affected by a state error will need to present documents, or risk losing some of their voting rights.| Votebeat
His executive order targets a simple technology that helps speed up vote counting in some large cities. Getting rid of it could be costly.| Votebeat
In St. Clair Shores, 4 people cast both absentee and in-person ballots in this month’s primary. The local clerk’s team said the problem was flagged two different ways, and police are investigating.| Votebeat
The order could be used to justify canceling a future election, one Democratic official warned. “It’s very methodical, and very, very dangerous.”| Votebeat
Voters and election officials around the country should pay close attention to how the state’s new proof of citizenship law affects voters, because one way or another, they could be contending with similar requirements.| Votebeat
A liberal group’s complaint pegs the amount at $175,000 each.| Votebeat
The state Supreme Court’s reversals have emboldened activists to file more legal challenges, leaving local clerks and voters to deal with the fallout.| Votebeat
The chair of the Wisconsin Election Commission points to “profoundly bad decisions” by the clerk’s office. The city attorney will fill in and oversee the April 1 election.| Votebeat
The bill would apply to currently registered voters and create a separate “federal only” voter roll, like Arizona’s.| Votebeat
The Wisconsin Elections Commission said its investigation into Madison’s missing-ballot mess is still missing key information — specifically, what happened at the two polling places on Election Day.| Votebeat
Problems piled up in Pinal, Arizona: a “lean” office, an overstretched staff, ballot debacles, and disenfranchised voters.| Votebeat
Jocelyn Benson, responding to a known case of a noncitizen who voted in 2024, criticized the GOP-backed approach.| Votebeat
The agency’s support helped counties across the country navigate a flood of bomb threats on Election Day in 2024. But under Trump, about 130 of its employees have been fired.| Votebeat
A U.S. appeals court called provisions requiring citizenship proof for voting in federal elections “unlawful measures of voter suppression.”| Votebeat
Voters would need to prove U.S. citizenship before 2026, or see themselves removed from the rolls.| Votebeat
Rachelle Smit said her priorities include passing a constitutional amendment requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship.| Votebeat
The problem has carved a deeper divide between Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and Gov. Katie Hobbs.| Votebeat
Experts say the legislation would place too many burdens on both voters and election officials, for little gain. But Republicans continue to bring up noncitizen voting.| Votebeat
The cause was a mix of policy choices and system errors. Former county recorders who compiled the report recommended better communication between state agencies.| Votebeat
The Madison city clerk’s office says it reported the discovery of uncounted ballots to the county, but the Dane County clerk disputes that claim.| Votebeat
Voters will decide whether to put the state’s controversial voter ID policy in the constitution.| Votebeat
Arizona is unclear on whether the cast voter record is public information. And counties are citing voter privacy to withhold it.| Votebeat
Arizona discovered a longstanding problem in the way it tracks which voters have provided proof of citizenship. It will try to solve the problem in court.| Votebeat
In Maricopa County, public lashes out at supervisors and dismiss explanations of Election Day problems.| Votebeat
Two counties have postponed until the last minute, but election lawyers say the courts will force the certification by the deadline no matter what.| Votebeat
The ruling will be reexamined again during a court hearing set for September.| Votebeat
A Votebeat analysis of undated and incorrectly dated mail ballot data shows a disparity for who is more likely to have their ballot rejected and not counted.| Votebeat
Voters can’t be disenfranchised over ‘inconsequential paperwork errors,’ state judge says.| Votebeat
One voter told Votebeat on Friday he thought he was in the clear after the county prosecutor declined to pursue charges in August.| Votebeat
The state's motor-vehicle agency mislabeled many longtime residents as U.S. citizens, without obtaining proof. The state now says the error affected more than 218,000 voters.| Votebeat
Pinal County recorder says she underestimated the number of election day ballots that would need additional examination.| Votebeat
Some state and local races may not be called for days as candidates wait for results from Election Day and last-minute early ballots.| Votebeat
Municipalities around the country allow noncitizens to vote in some local elections. Supporters of the proposal say they don’t want that happening in Wisconsin.| Votebeat
A state grand jury has indicted Republican Cochise County Supervisors Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd with two felonies of conspiracy and election interferance.| Votebeat
About 32,000 Arizona voters who haven’t proved their citizenship may be subject to investigations and potential removal from rolls under the 2022 laws.| Votebeat
The three-judge panel said the state’s rule requiring a handwritten date on the envelope is not an improper barrier to voting.| Votebeat
Not every clerk has tried it yet, but those who have say it means faster results for the public.| Votebeat
Thousands of Pennsylvania voters each year have their ballots rejected because they failed to write the date on their ballot envelopes. A new lawsuit argues they shouldn’t have to.| Votebeat
Young college students are disproportionately affected, and potentially disenfranchised, by Arizona laws requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote.| Votebeat
The bill tightens timelines for resolving court cases and sets a strict deadline for certifying the election.| Votebeat
Conservative election activists are preparing to act on suspicions that Democratic voters will abuse the boxes to commit fraud.| Votebeat
After a setback at the federal level, voting rights groups are basing their case this time on a clause in the state constitution that affirms a right to vote. It may be their last remaining option.| Votebeat
As the Wisconsin Supreme Court considers whether to legalize them again, clerks explain how the ban has made elections more logistically complicated, for them and for voters.| Votebeat
20-what? An envelope redesign was meant to cut down on date errors, but now some voters are leaving the last two digits of the year blank.| Votebeat
Storms caused power outages in scattered polling places; otherwise voting was smooth amid low turnout| Votebeat
