Arkansas Gov. Sanders, a Republican, says she won’t let Justice Department monitors “improperly intimidate” voters in the state’s two largest counties, as DOJ sends 1,000 nationwide.
Trump offers $1 million rewards for voter-fraud tips leading to arrest and conviction, without saying who pays, eight days before the midterms.
Justice Department asks Washington state to set aside ballots from 400 suspected noncitizens, in a state that recorded 15 noncitizen votes in 43 years.
Appeals court tosses the Justice Department’s bid to set aside 20,000 California mail ballots it calls likely noncitizen votes, saying it gave the judge 15 hours.
North Carolina Republican Sen. Tillis says California is “guilty” of ballot harvesting when asked whether the Justice Department’s pre-election moves trouble him.
Two federal appeals judges, one a Trump appointee, question the Justice Department’s bid to set aside 20,000 California ballots it says went to likely noncitizens.
Common Cause and Alaska voters, with ACLU lawyers, ask to fight the Justice Department’s suit to block Alaska’s Senate certification, calling it baseless.
Trump votes early in person in Florida, saying he backed every Republican, 10 days before the midterms.
Colorado tells the Justice Department its Election Day monitors need state approval to enter Adams County’s nonpublic election spaces, in a swing House district.
Justice Department charges nine Pennsylvania residents with voting as noncitizens in the 2022 and 2024 elections, 11 days before the midterms.
Maricopa County Recorder Heap restores 25 citizens a federal database wrongly flagged as noncitizens, after Arizona’s attorney general and secretary of state sued.
Attorney General Blanche won’t rule out the Justice Department blocking election certification in a “doomsday scenario,” 12 days before the midterms.
Justice Department gives 57 California counties 48 hours to agree to help screen suspected noncitizen voters, warning officials who count their ballots of legal jeopardy.
Justice Department sues to stop Alaska certifying its Senate race if Republican Sen. Sullivan loses, at Trump’s order, over a same-named challenger.
Justice Department will send Election Day monitors to Indianapolis and Lake County, two heavily Democratic areas among Indiana’s 92 counties, without saying why.
Postal Service’s halved rural mail pickups doubled or tripled late-ballot rejections in this year’s primaries, a ProPublica analysis finds, hitting Trump-voting areas hardest.
Justice Department asks a judge who called its last voter-roll demand illegal to force California to set aside ballots from people on its suspected-noncitizen list.
Supreme Court bars student IDs at New Hampshire polls 12 days before the midterms, lifting a three-week-old order to avoid changing rules near an election.
Maricopa County’s election center locks down for 30 minutes over suspicious activity nearby, days after a white-powder letter reached Arizona’s secretary of state.
North Carolina mail ballot rejections rise to 3.1% under a Republican-led elections board rule tossing unsealed inner envelopes, after a judge declined to block it.
Judge bars Homeland Security Department agents from questioning likely citizens in nine states’ voter-fraud sweeps until polls close Nov. 3, finding union intimidation.
Wisconsin GOP governor nominee Rep. Tiffany says Zuckerberg’s election grants were one reason he backed overturning Trump’s 2020 loss, and vows to certify 2028.
Democratic leaders Schumer and Jeffries sue to block federal voter-fraud probes in California and Nevada, calling them a pretext to seize control of the midterms.
Supreme Court Justice Kagan says her conservative colleagues’ rulings on voting and campaign money made America more polarized and less democratic, two weeks before midterms.
Trump’s Homeland Security appointees asked its cybersecurity agency to secretly get and hack a voting machine for the White House, ProPublica reports.
Election offices in at least 32 states were targeted with suspicious letters two weeks before the midterms, WIRED finds, with five evacuated over white powder.
Trump again says New Mexico should “immediately” rename itself “New America,” saying it’s known for “crooked elections,” as both parties’ governor nominees reject the idea.
Justice Department charges 28 California green-card holders who registered to vote as citizens, and sues the state over a federal list of 20,000 suspected noncitizens.
No Kings movement shifts from street marches to early voting with 2,500-plus events in all 50 states, 17 days before Election Day.
Trump warns California election workers “will all go to jail” if they count ballots of voters the Justice Department flags as noncitizens.
Bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission votes 5-1 to tell clerks how to handle ICE, Homeland Security or FBI agents at polls, after clerks asked for guidance.
Justice Department sues California to set aside mail ballots from voters it calls likely noncitizens, as its 48-hour deadline lapses.
Voting groups sue Homeland Security Department over voter files from 47 states it combines with commercial data, alleging it breaks federal law.
Texas counties clear more than 500,000 voter registrations stuck for over a year by a Department of Public Safety software error.
Envelopes of suspicious white powder hit election offices in Louisiana and Oklahoma and Capitol Hill offices, with Ohio’s intercepted, three weeks before the midterms.
Appeals court weighs Trump’s power to keep National Guard in DC, after video showed troops stationed beside ballot drop boxes.
Justice Department gives California 48 hours to set aside mail ballots from voters it calls likely noncitizens or face suit, three weeks before Election Day.
Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal of sanctions against 2022 Arizona governor candidate Kari Lake’s lawyer for a “frivolous” suit against vote-counting machines.
Police arrest South Carolina Democratic state Rep. Rivers on a charge of pointing a gun at his primary opponent’s uncle outside a polling place.
Federal judge bars Justice Department from using an inaccurate citizenship database to strike voters, calling it a federal bid to “decide who gets to vote.”
ICE emails discuss loading voter roll data into ELITE, the Palantir-supported tool agents use to pick deportation targets, to investigate voter fraud.
Trump meets Tina Peters, the former Colorado county clerk convicted in an election equipment breach, to discuss federal involvement in midterms, a former Justice Department lawyer says.
NAACP launches a legal hub to take voter intimidation to court as the Justice Department plans 1,000-plus poll monitors.
ACLU trains volunteer poll observers across South Dakota as a “deterrent” after Trump says he doesn’t “rule anything out” on an election emergency.
New Mexico Senate Republicans post AI-generated images including a fake mugshot of the Senate’s top Democrat, drawing an ethics complaint for lacking the required disclaimer.
Trump calls Arizona’s Maricopa County “very, very dishonest” after vendor mails 3,126 ballots six days early, an error its Republican recorder says changes nothing for voters.
Trump urges Republicans to vote by mail to “swamp” Democrats, weeks after calling it a “Nation Destroying SCAM.”
Wyoming Supreme Court unanimously upholds a ban on switching parties within 96 days of a primary, aimed at Democrats and independents voting in GOP primaries.
Democrats sue Pentagon for dropping citizens who never lived in the US from overseas voter forms, as Republicans sue to block their votes.
White House budget office moves to ban federal grant money for voter registration drives, threatening grants Congress created in 2002 to help disabled Americans vote, ProPublica reports.