WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate is likely to take a procedural vote on Wednesday on whether to debate an overhaul of federal election law, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Monday as he urged Republicans not to block the measure.

It was just last year when Hood County, Texas, hired a new elections administrator. By any fair measure, local officials made a smart choice: Michele Carew was a 14-year veteran of elections administration at the county level; she'd already run an elections system in a different Texas county; and she was a respected professional in her field with impeccable credentials.

A Georgia judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit against members of Fulton County’s election board, ruling that the plaintiffs, who alleged that there were fraudulent mail-in ballots in the 2020 presidential election, lacked standing to sue.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The retired Wisconsin Supreme Court justice leading a Republican-ordered investigation into the 2020 presidential election said Tuesday that he plans to issue subpoenas to mayors in the state’s five largest and most Democratic cities.

A criminal investigation into Trump’s 2 January call prodding Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to “just find” him 11,780 votes to block Joe Biden’s win in the state is making headway. The Georgia district attorney running the inquiry is now also sharing information with the House committee investigating the 6 January attack on the Capitol in Washington DC.

HOWELL, MI — About 200 people came to a small park at Howell’s Lake Chemung Friday afternoon to sign a petition initiative signers said would give them and other Michigan residents concerned about election integrity “peace of mind.”

As the former president ponders another campaign, Trump supporters and some Republican lawmakers in pivotal states are trying to make it easier to challenge and perhaps overturn future elections, analysts say, setting the stage for a crisis of democracy after the votes are tabulated in November of 2024.

Arizona’s partisan election review concluded last month by finding more votes for Joe Biden in its flawed hand count of Maricopa County and without alleging any specific fraud. Despite these findings, the partisan review offered false and unvetted innuendo about “anomalies” in the 2020 election that were parroted by Donald Trump to claim that he had been vindicated in his lie that the election was stolen.

Officials say the biggest threat facing U.S. elections isn't Russian hacking or domestic voter fraud but disinformation and misinformation increasingly undermining the public’s perception of voting security.

Conspiracy theorists pushing misinformation about the 2020 elections took their allegations to Idaho, and Idaho officials pushed right back.

Top Gem State election administrators in Secretary of State Lawrence Denney’s (R) office said late Wednesday they had visited two counties to conduct a hand recount of last year’s presidential contest after hearing from readers of a website linked to MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell, widely discredited for spreading easily disprovable misinformation in recent months.

Former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who was tapped by Republican lawmakers to lead a review of Wisconsin’s 2020 election, issued this week what appear to be the first subpoenas in the tax dollar-funded probe.

The circuslike review of the 2020 vote commissioned by Arizona Republicans took another wild turn on Friday when veteran election experts charged that the very foundation of its findings — the results of a hand count of 2.1 million ballots — was based on numbers so unreliable that they appear to be guesswork rather than tabulations.