Justice Department reportedly hires a lawyer who pleaded guilty to hacking Florida election websites to monitor elections, as it plans 1,000 midterm monitors.
Former White House election security director Olsen, who sparked the FBI’s Fulton County ballot seizure, leaves Miami prosecutors running “grand conspiracy” probe of Trump foes, CNN reports.
Federal judge voids FEMA rule withholding 20% of states’ counterterrorism funds unless they plan a switch to hand-marked paper ballots and verify voters’ citizenship.
Supreme Court lets Homeland Security check voters’ citizenship against Social Security records before the midterms, reviving a database a judge ruled violates privacy law.
New Jersey Lt. Gov. Caldwell resigns a day after Gov. Sherrill’s ultimatum, and the state comptroller takes over his election-running secretary of state job.
For the third time this month, Supreme Court blocks Missouri’s House map meant to add a Republican seat, saying the election “has already started.”
Some Missouri county clerks tell absentee voters to wait if they can, as the Supreme Court weighs a third appeal over the Trump-backed House map.
California Supreme Court orders Riverside County Sheriff Bianco, a former Republican candidate for governor, to return 650,000 ballots he illegally seized.
Federal grand jury indicts Utah postal worker accused of dumping over 300 mail ballots in a church parking lot dumpster before June’s primary.
Federal appeals court reinstates Missouri’s Trump-backed map favoring Republicans in seven of eight House seats, delaying it a week as absentee voting begins.
Homeland Security memo lists counties with non-English ballots, including one the Voting Rights Act requires to translate, under “requirements for prosecution of voter related charges.”
Postmaster General Steiner says the Postal Service has stopped building the voter-screening system behind Trump’s mail-ballot order after the Supreme Court blocked it.
Trump calls his own Supreme Court appointees “not the people I interviewed” after the mail-ballot loss, but Attorney General Blanche says the administration will comply.
FBI Director Patel won’t rule out agents at Election Day polls or say whether 2020 was rigged, yelling at a senator pressing him on interference.
Missouri’s fired election-integrity director sues Secretary of State Hoskins, alleging staff planned a fake whistleblower complaint for a federal voting case and fired him after he testified.
DHS whistleblower says leaders ordered agents to enter state voter-record sites under false pretenses and clear five cases an hour hunting noncitizen voters before the midterms.
Supreme Court refuses to let Postal Service enforce Trump’s mail-ballot rule before November over two dissents, three weeks after clearing the executive order behind it.
Denver and three civil rights groups sue to bar armed ICE agents from polling places and ballot drop boxes in November, citing a Civil War-era law.
Supreme Court blocks Missouri’s Trump-encouraged congressional map for November as the state’s high court holds its election chief in contempt for telling counties to use it.
Justice Department warns 29 states and DC of criminal sanctions if they destroy 2024 election records, after repeated court losses over demands for their voter data.
Trump proposes excluding roughly 16 million undocumented and temporary immigrants from the 2030 census count that allots House seats, reviving his first-term citizenship question.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court for the second time in 3 days to unblock a Social Security-linked voter database a judge ruled “trampled” citizens’ privacy.
Trump administration returns to the Supreme Court a third time in 6 weeks over its mail-ballot restrictions, filing on a Sunday 2 days after North Carolina began mailing ballots.
North Carolina’s Republican-led elections board votes party-line to toss more mail ballots over errors it previously let slide, the same morning counties begin mailing ballots.
Justice Department sends Nevada 7 FBI subpoenas for voter data after judges tossed its lawsuit demanding the same files, one of 23 rejected.
Federal judge extends block on Trump’s Postal Service mail-voting order, ruling states can’t “pivot this late,” the same day North Carolina mails its first ballots.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to unblock Postal Service mail-ballot rules that 23 states are fighting, one day before North Carolina begins mailing ballots.
Maryland Supreme Court lets voters decide 5-2 a constitutional amendment easing congressional redistricting, Democrats’ bid for all 8 House seats in answer to Trump’s Texas map push.
Missouri Supreme Court unanimously blocks the Trump-backed congressional map for November, ruling it “has never been the law” until voters decide a 305,000-signature referendum.
ICE plans to pay up to $5 million to compile voter rolls and voting histories from all 50 states, after courts rejected DOJ’s demands for the same data.
Immigrant rights group CHIRLA sues Homeland Security to halt voter roll matching that claims 190,000 noncitizens registered in California, a figure it calls “almost certainly widely incorrect.”
Fort Worth’s Tarrant County commissioners cut 92 Election Day polling sites from 2022 levels on a 3-2 party line vote after 8 hours of mostly opposed testimony.
Postal Service whistleblower tells House Democrats the agency is secretly building a voter screening system, tested for 4 days, despite last week’s court block.
Wyoming’s Republican governor asks the state attorney general to investigate “aggressive” Justice Department election monitors who tried to inspect tabulators and interview voters during the primary.
Justice Department appeals a judge’s 14-day block on Postal Service rules letting it withhold mail ballots, one day after she found compliance “practically impossible” by November.
Maryland judge blocks the November redistricting ballot question, ruling Democrats missed their own July 1 certification deadline in the August special session.
24 states and DC sue to block the Postal Service mail-ballot rule 2 days after their Supreme Court loss, calling the required overhaul Herculean.
Judge lets Trump’s mail-ballot order proceed after Monday’s Supreme Court ruling, noting challengers have substantial arguments that could still reverse it.
ICE seeks a contractor to deliver voter registration and voting history files from all 50 states, citing fraud detection, 404 Media reports from procurement records.
Judge blocks Ohio’s proof-of-citizenship voter registration rule before the October 5 midterm deadline, won by 2 civic groups who sued the state.
La Crosse County prosecutor declines to charge Musk over his $1 million Wisconsin Supreme Court election offer, despite the elections commission finding probable cause.
Supreme Court lets Trump’s mail-ballot executive order proceed 6-3, lifting the block on a federal voter list and USPS delivery restrictions before the midterms.
USPS finalizes its rule refusing to deliver mail ballots from states that won’t share voter data with DHS, despite two injunctions blocking it.
Trump announces Stop the Steal advocate Ed Martin is leaving DOJ to fight legal battles in the midterm and 2028 elections.
Missouri judge rules citizens cannot force a referendum on the state’s gerrymandered congressional map, rejecting a petition signed by over 300,000 voters.
Trump votes by mail in Florida’s primary for the second time this year while calling mail voting cheating and ordering restrictions on it.
Voting rights coalition sues New Hampshire to restore school-issued IDs for registering and voting, arguing the repeal deliberately targets young voters.
Texas police arrest an activist for “tumultuous behavior” at 3 AM, a week after he said “bullshit” at a meeting over cutting polling places.
Nevada judge dismisses forgery charges against the state’s six 2020 fake electors a second time, ruling prosecutors failed to prove fraudulent intent.
Trump says “stranger things have happened” when asked about declaring a national emergency to impose voting restrictions the Senate refused to pass.