Vote Watch

Texas officials sent tens of thousands of delayed voter registration applications to county election officials this week after discovering an error, sparking a scramble to process them weeks out from the midterms.

Officials in Tarrant County, the third most-populous in Texas, approved a plan to reduce the number of polling locations by 92 compared to the 2022 elections.

An executive order from Trump, which is stymied in the courts, required the Postal Service to rapidly build a complex system to vet mail ballots.

State officials are pushing back on the Department of Homeland Security’s claims that it found tens of thousands of noncitizens on their voter rolls, asking the department to explain how it arrived at its conclusion.

Billionaire Elon Musk likely broke Wisconsin law when he promised to hand out $1 million checks to voters in the 2025 state Supreme Court election, a bipartisan panel has found. The Wisconsin Elections Commission last week referred two complaints to the Brown County district attorney’s office, which can choose to bring criminal charges over violating the state law against election bribery.

President Donald Trump and his administration have falsely claimed that noncitizen voting is a widespread problem plaguing U.S. elections.

U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan said that use of the database, known as SAVE, risked disenfranchising eligible voters ahead of the midterm elections.

A perfect storm of conditions in California has led to an increasingly loud chorus of unfounded voter fraud claims over the past week from President Donald Trump and his allies, alarming election experts who warn it could be a preview of what’s to come in this fall’s midterms