US supreme court rules Trump can proceed with crackdown on mail-in voting
Justices’ ruling comes after lower courts had blocked president’s election order ahead of November midtermsDonald Trump’s administration can proceed w...
Supreme Court pauses lower court ruling on Trump's mail voting order as hurdles loom
The Supreme Court paused a lower court's ruling that blocked key parts of Trump's order to limit voting by mail for the midterms. But U.S. Postal Serv...
Top US firms that backed Voting Rights Act donate to groups working to undermine it
Watchdog data shared with Guardian shows contributions to Republican Attorneys General Association and othersOver a dozen US companies that signed a 2...
US Postal Service rule tightens mail-in voting despite federal court orders
Rule would require states to provide federal government with information on voters in return for delivering ballotsThe US Postal Service prepared to p...
Experts raise alarms over Census Bureau report Trump is touting on noncitizen voting
A Trump-aligned think tank has ties to a highly unusual Census Bureau report that the president is using to renew false claims of widespread voting by...
Can a student ID be used for voting? More Republican-led states are banning it
New bans on using student IDs for voting in Indiana and New Hampshire have sparked lawsuits after creating the latest hurdles to the ballot box for th...
Victorian microparty MPs including Georgie Purcell to face re-election struggle after group voting tickets abolished
Voters will be required to number at least five parties above the line in order of preference after bill passed upper house 33 votes to fourFollow our...
Judge blocks Trump’s order aimed at using USPS to restrict mail-in voting
Ruling expands on earlier order that prevented implementation in 23 mostly Democratic-led statesSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailA fed...
A judge expands a block on U.S. Postal Service work on Trump's mail-in voting order
A federal judge expanded a block on a key part of President Trump's order to restrict mail-in voting for this fall's midterms, banning the Postal Serv...
Top Democrats simulate election threats as Trump continues assault on voting
Chuck Schumer and other senators took part in exercises in which legal experts laid out election disruption scenariosIn a Washington DC conference roo...
DoJ urges supreme court to allow Trump order targeting mail-in voting
Emergency appeal comes after court upheld ruling blocking president’s order ahead of November midtermsThe Trump administration has asked the supreme c...
Senate to begin voting on Trump intelligence nominee Jay Clayton – US politics live
The US president’s pick to be the country’s director of national intelligence is expected to be approved within days – but only after a tense confirma...
‘Our country is the mission’: more than 100 ex-Nasa astronauts launch new voting campaign
Astronauts for America liken effort to instill trust and faith back in constitution’s principles and democratic institutions to ‘making a course corre...
Election voting advice from AI chatbots ‘inaccurate and unreliable’
Research during Hungary election shows AI recommended parties not running and gave highly volatile answers to identical promptsAI chatbots provide ina...
After years of false claims on voting, Trump to give an address on election integrity
President Trump, who for years has sowed doubt about the security of American elections, is scheduled to give a primetime address Thursday night about...
US civil rights leaders plan march on Washington for voting protections
Rev Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III to lead August march after court rulings weakened voting rightsA coalition of civil rights leaders have ann...
Do you know where your birth certificate is? Journalist warns of new voting barriers
The rules of the midterms are being rewritten, from redistricting to campaign money. Mother Jones journalist Ari Berman explains why President Trump s...
US judge blocks Trump administration’s bid to restrict mail-in voting
Ruling comes amid drive by Republican administration to reshape rules around voting ahead of midtermsThe Trump administration’s plan to deny mail-in b...
Postal Service confirms proposal to restrict mail-in voting under Trump's order
A judge has blocked the U.S. Postal Service's proposals responding to President Trump's order, including not delivering ballots in states that don't t...
A federal judge in Boston has blocked parts of Trump's order to limit voting by mail
A federal judge in Boston has blocked parts of President Trump's executive order to limit voting by mail. The Trump administration is expected to appe...
Trump keeps sabotaging legislation over a voting bill. Here's what's in it
President Trump blew up what could have been a win for his party — and he did it to force lawmakers to pass an elections overhaul bill that has been a...
Will Texas' new top voting official be a 'disruptor'? Locals are preparing for it
Just ahead of closely contested midterms, Texas is about to get a new top voting official. Many locals there fear the frontrunner is a state lawmaker ...
Revealed: Brexit voting areas have seen faster growth in foreign workers since EU referendum
Guardian investigation also finds same areas experienced relative decline over same periodLeave-voting areas have seen faster relative growth in forei...
Georgia Republicans decline to redraw congressional map after voting rights decision
Lawmakers cite rushed timeline and public input despite pressure to redraw districts after supreme court opinionGeorgia Republicans declined to redraw...
