WASHINGTON — Republicans in Tuesday's California gubernatorial recall election are already laying the groundwork to argue the election was stolen — even before a single ballot is reported or a victor declared, an increasingly common tactic in conservative circles.

State elections officials from across the country are pushing Congress to slip in tens of billions of dollars in election integrity spending into the budget.

The letter, addressed to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, also stresses that much of the funding needs to be accessible well before the 2022 election, for which primaries begin next spring.

A group of election security experts on Thursday called for a rigorous audit of the upcoming recall election for California’s governor after copies of systems used to run elections across the country were released publicly.

It’s a good thing that Donald Trump takes constructive criticism so well. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), one of Trump’s most loyal allies in Congress, has been caught on camera blaming the ex-president for his election defeat.

As Republicans continue to challenge the 2020 results, voting equipment is being compromised when partisan insiders and unvetted operatives gain access.

A federal report finds that in the run up to the 2020 presidential election U.S. states and territories had spent less than a third of the $805 million Congress had provided to shore up security for state and local election systems.

(CNN) The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, legislation that would strengthen the federal government's role in overseeing election law changes that could disenfranchise minority groups, passed the House on Tuesday -- a victory for Democrats who believe it is a necessary response to the erosion of election protections by the Supreme Court in recent years.

In the multifaceted history of Trump-era lunacy, few enterprises have displayed the unalloyed stupidity of the Arizona “audit,” in which conspiracy-minded nincompoops assembled in the desert to hold ballots under UV lights in search of the Watermark of the Beast (or something) and sniff around for bamboo fibers revealing the hidden Asian hand behind President Biden’s victory.

The top Republican in the Pennsylvania State Senate promised this week to carry out a broad review of the 2020 election results, a move that comes as G.O.P. lawmakers continue to sow doubts about the contest’s legitimacy by pushing to re-examine votes in battleground states like Arizona.

Across the U.S., states from Georgia to Kansas are enacting laws that would place restrictions on mail-in voting, add ID requirements and reduce the number of ballots people are allowed to submit on behalf of others, citing election security as their primary concern.

DENVER, Aug 17 (Reuters) - The FBI said on Tuesday that it has opened an investigation into the suspected security breach of voting equipment in a western Colorado county, which Colorado's secretary of state has said was allowed by the locally elected county clerk.

Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and two others entered a secure area of the Election Division in the dark of night days before a scheduled upgrade of the system in May and made two copies of a main computer hard drive in violation of security protocols, the Secretary of State’s Office announced Monday.