Politics Nov 10 Supreme Court will decide whether states can count late-arriving mail ballots, a Trump target ahead of midterms By Mark Sherman, Associated Press
Nation Aug 23 Watch 6:18 Does Trump have the power to end mail-in voting? Legal scholar weighs in With control of Congress at stake in the 2026 midterm elections, Trump is doubling down on efforts to end mail-in voting. In the 2024 election, nearly 30% of Americans who voted cast their ballots by mail. Despite a multimillion-dollar Republican… By John Yang, Harry Zahn
Politics Aug 18 Fact-checking Trump’s claim the U.S. is the ‘only country’ that uses mail-in voting President Donald Trump vowed to take action against voting by mail, which he said makes the United States an outlier. By Amy Sherman, PolitiFact
Politics Nov 02 Rejecting GOP plea, Supreme Court lets Pennsylvania count contested provisional ballots The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania as the presidential campaigns vie in the final days before the election in the nation’s biggest battleground… By Mike Catalini, Michael Rubinkam, Marc Levy, Associated Press
Politics Sep 25 Election rules are changing in several states, even with voting set to begin It can be a challenge to keep track of these 11th-hour changes, so here's a quick guide. By Ali Swenson, Associated Press
Jul 21 Watch 5:19 A look ahead at election laws as the Democratic Party picks a new nominee By John Yang Democratic Party officials will now have to negotiate state election laws, just six weeks from when the first mail-in ballots go out to voters in North Carolina. For more, John Yang speaks with Rick Hasen, a professor at UCLA Law… Continue watching
Oct 27 It’s normal not to know the official results on election night. Here’s why By Christina A. Cassidy, Associated Press In 2020, Trump proclaimed that the lack of final results on election night was an indicator of something nefarious. He used it to assert without evidence that the election was stolen. In reality, results released on election night are unofficial… Continue reading
Aug 02 Pennsylvania Supreme Court upholds state’s 2019 mail-in voting expansion By Mark Scolforo, Marc Levy, Associated Press A wide expansion of mail-in voting in Pennsylvania has survived a legal challenge brought by some of the same Republican state representatives who voted for the legislation nearly three years ago. Continue reading
May 17 Printing error affects mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania county By Geoff Mulvihill, Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press Officials in Lancaster County say a commercial printer sent ballots to voters containing a code that makes them unreadable by scanning machines. Continue reading
Mar 17 WATCH: House holds hearing on ensuring free and fair access to voting in Texas By Associated Press Texas threw out mail votes at an abnormally high rate during the nation's first primary of 2022, rejecting nearly 23,000 ballots outright under tougher voting rules that are part of a broad campaign by Republicans to reshape American elections. Continue reading