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565 items of 1682 · updated Oct 29, 2026, 6:00 AM ET
NPR reports student voters studying outside their hometown have a right to choose where to register, and advocates say a Montana legal fight is a reminder of a misunderstanding of those rights.
Source: NPR (npr.org)
Latest action on IL HB 2431, ranked-choice voting: co-sponsor Rep. Sharon Chung added 2025-04-03.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org)
IL HB 1553 (Election Day Waiver) latest action on 2026-03-27: House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c), re-referred to Rules Committee.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
Two years after Hurricane Helene, North Carolina voters are frustrated with a slow recovery that could carry a political price, Grist reports.
Source: Grist (grist.org)
Republicans have spent an estimated $183 million on television ads focused on transgender-related attacks against Democrats in the final phase of this year's midterm elections
Source: ABC News (abcnews.com)
WV SB 531 establishes the First Amendment Preservation Act; latest action (2026-06-25): Chapter 153, Acts, Regular Session, 2026.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
WV HB 5275, providing the circumstances that a qualified voter is authorized to vote an absentee ballot by mail, latest action 2026-02-05: to House Judiciary.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
WV HB 4797 would create the Charlie Kirk Memorial First Amendment Freedom Act; latest action on 2026-01-23 was in the House.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
WI AB 1201, relating to the definition of political action committee for campaign finance purposes, failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
WI SB 597, allowing voters to automatically receive absentee ballots for every election and eliminating the indefinitely confined voter status, failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
WI SB 518, relating to polling place accessibility, failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
AK SB 64, an act relating to elections, voting, voter registration, election administration and campaign contributions; latest action 2026-05-12: (H) Minutes (HSTA).
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski endorsed Democratic candidate Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins over Trump-backed Bernadette Wilson in the Alaska governor's race a week before Election Day.
Source: NBC News (nbcnews.com)
President Trump and Texas Senate candidate James Talarico held dueling rallies in Texas one week before the midterm elections; Trump held rallies in Corpus Christi and Lubbock.
Source: The Hill (thehill.com)
Pennsylvania HB 37 amends the Pennsylvania Election Code on canvassing of absentee and mail-in ballots and election funding; it was referred to State Government on 2026-06-18.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
A federal judge deferred a ruling in the legal tangle between the Justice Department and California over targeting noncitizen voters and said the government already had a remedy.
Source: The New York Times (nytimes.com)
A lawsuit alleges nearly 3,000 Cobb County voters have not received mail ballots and want a judge to order the election board to overnight absentee ballots to make the Nov. 3 deadline.
Source: Democracy Docket (news alerts) (democracydocket.com)
The New York Times reports the Justice Department is stepping up moves on Comey and others as midterm elections near, and that court paperwork bears signs of urgency, typos and unorthodox tactics.
Source: The New York Times (nytimes.com)
With a week to go until the midterm elections, President Trump staged two campaign rallies in Texas on Tuesday; Talarico and Paxton hold dueling rallies in Texas.
Source: CBS News (cbsnews.com)
Axios reports Senate control could hang in limbo for weeks after Election Day thanks to tight races and state-specific voting rules.
Source: Axios (axios.com)