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Lawyers involved in the lawsuit to overturn the results of Michigans 2020 presidential election were required to complete legal training by Friday.

There have been multiple challenges to automatic voter registration implementation in Illinois and there are still opportunities to significantly improve AVR implementation. Even with those challenges, we wanted to measure the law’s effectiveness at Secretary of State facilities since implementation began in the summer of 2018. Our analysis shows that voter registration applications at Secretary of State facilities have increased markedly, by 37 percent, which translates to an additional 111,...

Karen Richard, Stark County Auditor and Treasurer, wears many hats and despite the growing responsibilities, said she is excited for challenges ahead.

Issued: 10:30am, Friday, 11th February 2022 The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room (Situation Room) has convened in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to observe the Area Council Elections in the FCT scheduled for Saturday, 12th February 2022. This election is the first election after the recently held Anambra State governorship election, which was mostly adjudged […]

Election workers are facing an unprecedented wave of personal threats as they ponder whether they to continue in their field ahead of 2022 midterms.

This years races for election administration positions will feature well-funded “stop the steal” candidates who appear ready to undermine elections to help their side win. These scenarios highlight a unique vulnerability of U.S. elections: the lack of safeguards against party or candidate loyalists holding important election posts.

In Vermont, lawmakers are considering bills to make it easier to prosecute people who threaten election officials. In Maine, proposed legislation would stiffen penalties for such intimidation. In Washington, state senators voted this month to make threatening election workers a felony.

Texas has refused to modernize and create an online voter registration system. As a result, communities across the state have less accurate voter rolls, and taxpayer money is wasted on paper.

“The idea that we still have a paper-based (voter registration) system is just absurd,” Travis County voter registrar Bruce Elfant says.

Between Jan. 1 and May 14, at least 14 states enacted 22 new bills that restrict access to the vote. Sixty-one bills are progressing through 18 state legislatures.