The primary election on Tuesday in Texas marked the first statewide test of a sweeping law that added new restrictions to voting and that has threatened to keep some voters’ absentee ballots from being counted.

The former judge hired by Wisconsin Republicans to conduct an “investigation” into the 2020 election presented his “interim” findings on Tuesday and asserted that there were “significant grounds” for the state legislature to “decertify” the election — something that legal experts across Wisconsin and the country agree is not possible or appropriate.

Between 2014 and 2020, the Bren­nan Center released a series of analyses detail­ing the prob­lem of aging voting equip­ment in the United States. Those analyses relied signi­fic­antly on data provided by Veri­fied Voting. Today, our organ­iz­a­tions update those analyses with a look at the state of the nation’s voting systems ahead of the Novem­ber 2022 midterm elec­tions.

Between 2014 and 2020, the Bren­nan Center released a series of analyses detail­ing the prob­lem of aging voting equip­ment in the United States. Those analyses relied signi­fic­antly on data provided by Veri­fied Voting. Today, our organ­iz­a­tions update those analyses with a look at the state of the nation’s voting systems ahead of the Novem­ber 2022 midterm elec­tions.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ goal of election security reforms is proceeding in the legislature with its first hearing in the House Appropriations Committee Monday. The bill already cleared two Senate committees.

A Republican-led initiative that would bypass voters and skirt a veto by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will make it harder to vote or will secure elections, depending on which side of the aisle a person is on.

The nation's premier tool to protect voting rights is in mortal danger, threatened on multiple fronts by the Supreme Court and lower-ranking federal judges, scholars and civil rights advocates say.

North Carolina Republicans dropped a bombshell: a legal filing in the Supreme Court that if successful would not only restore the state legislature’s ability to engage in partisan gerrymandering and perhaps tip control of Congress, but would radically alter the power of state courts to rein in state legislatures that violate voting rights in federal elections.

Twenty-eight days, three forms, and several calls -- that's what Pam Gaskin says it took for her to finally be able to cast her ballot in Texas. The 74-year-old has voted by mail for nearly a decade, but this year, she says a typically easy process turned into a "nightmare."

Days before a new legislative map for North Dakota was set to be introduced in the state house, leaders of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and Spirit Lake Nation sent a letter to the governor and other state lawmakers urging them to rethink the proposal.

Civil rights and voting advocacy groups say a proposed resolution before the Washoe County Commission, which calls for using the National Guard at polling sites, is unconstitutional and is designed to disenfranchise voters.

They also warn more local efforts designed to restrict voting might surface ahead of the 2022 midterm election.

Thousands of Texans have had their absentee ballot applications denied as a result of regulations put in place under the state’s new election law, a jump in rejections that could force many older and disabled voters to either vote in person or not at all in primary elections early next month.