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County and state election operations, poll worker training, oaths, and certification processes.
Forty-one percent of Michigan city and township leaders say nine-day early voting has hurt election administration, a University of Michigan survey found. Ratings divide by town size, budget stress and party, and officials describe the costs only in their written comments.
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Supreme Court lets states screen voters against DHS's SAVE database, over three dissents and lower-court findings that its data is inaccurate. Each state decides whether to use it, so eligible voters' exposure depends on which states opt in before the midterms.
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The US Supreme Court's refusal to force Missouri's 2025 map into the midterms held only as long as it took a district judge in the same state to rule the other way, on identical legal arguments.
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Brookings' Elena Patel estimates the Postal Service's one-truck rural schedule could add 43,000 to 55,000 mail-ballot rejections in November. It builds on this year's primaries in three states and puts the heaviest risk on rural Western voters.
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Monday evening's order in USPS v. California stops the late-August mail-ballot rules that election officials said they could not implement in time, and officers from both parties say the 2026 cycle now proceeds unchanged.
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Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence faults the implementation calendar and allows that the final USPS regulation may be lawful. The rule the Postal Service already finalized stays available for a cycle with more lead time.
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Delaware County amended its election worker oath to cover bets and wagers. It is the first concrete sign that liquid election markets manufacture insider-risk controls where none existed.
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