Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for our free newsletters here.Pennsylvania House Democrats are again pushing to allow counties time to process mail ballots before …
Georgia bill to strip QR codes from ballots would cost tens of millions of dollars
Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for our free newsletters here.Update, May 13, 2024: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed this bill, SB 189, on May 7 without releasing a …
Arizona may fund tool to allow candidates to verify election results, ballot by ballot
Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for our free newsletters here.Candidates for election in Arizona would potentially be able to verify the results in their race, bal…
With lawsuits and recount petitions rising, some Texas elections seem to go on forever
Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for our free newsletters here.It has been 15 months since Democrat DaSean Jones was sworn in as a Harris County criminal district c…
Snyder County’s new election director passes his first big test. Next comes November.
Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for our free newsletters here.Even before the sun was up on primary election day, Devin Rhoads was putting out fires.A precinct in …
Why we think spotlighting flaws in elections actually helps increase voter confidence
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Cornell University Students Establish Liberated Zone in Solidarity with Gaza, Call for Divestment
In a pre-dawn mobilization on April 25th, a group of around 30 students at Cornell University affiliated with the Coalition for Mutual Liberation (CML) set up a “liberated zone” encampment on campus, a sign of growing support for the movement…
Pennsylvania’s redesigned mail ballot envelopes trip up many voters who left date incomplete
Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for our free newsletters here.A design change Pennsylvania officials made to prevent voters from making a disqualifying error on th…
Fired head of U.S. election agency got unauthorized $31,000 raise, investigation finds
Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for our free newsletters here.Steven Frid, former executive director of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, obtained a substan…
Brazos elections officials shoulder new costs and burdens to appease skeptics
Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for our free newsletters here.In Brazos County, suspicions about elections burst into the open last fall, just weeks after a v…