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The Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration has hired a new Elections Director to take over the county’s operations.

The state’s attorney general is suing after bogus 2020 claims continue to animate GOP election threats

The state’s attorney general is suing after bogus 2020 claims continue to animate GOP election threats

Former President Donald Trump is campaigning for re-election. Disinformation continues to run rampant on social media. Large portions of the country still doubt valid election results. Sound familiar? Signs point

A more efficient U.S. Postal Service can increase voter turnout in all states regardless of their mail voting laws, according to a Washington State University study. WSU researcher Michael Ritter analyzed election data from 2012 through 2020, when the pandemic encouraged many more people than usual to vote by mail. He found that in general more accessible mail voting laws, such as universal mail-in voting and no-excuse mail voting, increased the probability that individuals would vote. Restricti...

Barry C. Burden’s profile on The Conversation

Critics have cast the laws as a power grab by Texas’ Republican-led legislature, aimed at disrupting how elections are run in an increasingly blue part of a traditionally red state.

A nonpartisan organization that trains election workers from across the country is now being run by two liberal voting activists—one who previously worked for the nonprofit that distributed hundreds of millions of dollars of Mark Zuckerberg’s election grants during the 2020 elections. The grants were supposedly to “help” local governments run elections, but most of the money went to election offices in Democrat-run localities.

One of the co-CEOs of Election Center previously worked for group that doled out “Zuckerbucks” in the 2020 election.

In a video message, Cooper said these changes aim to disenfranchise young and nonwhite voters who are more likely to support Democrats.