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News · CT
A New Haven Register editorial says a high court decision removes an obstacle to broader voting access in Connecticut.
News · AK
Alaska courts are expanding text-message reminders intended to alert people about upcoming court hearings.
News · MO
The Missouri attorney general directed prediction markets to stop offering sports wagering without state authorization.
News · VT
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the federal government has no right to demand Vermont’s statewide voter registration list.
News · MT
The ruling stops Montana from applying its new election deepfake law to a conservative PAC that mailed AI-generated candidate images.
News · DE
The Delaware Supreme Court will consider a Republican challenge involving the state’s absentee voting rules.
News · NC
A divided panel upheld a law moving election board appointment power from the governor to the state auditor.
News · AZ
The justices kept a court order blocking a new Postal Service rule through Arizona’s Nov. 3 general election.
News · NC
The court ruled lawmakers did not violate the state constitution by moving elections board appointment authority to the state auditor.
News · NC
The decision reinforces State Auditor Dave Boliek’s control over appointments to North Carolina’s election boards.
News · ND
The Supreme Court blocked new federal mail-voting restrictions before November, a result welcomed by North Dakota Secretary of State Michael Howe.
News · KY
Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin is out of jail following action by a court of appeals in his case.
News · WI
Wisconsin clerks will use existing absentee-ballot procedures after the Supreme Court blocked new federal requirements for the midterms.
News · AZ
Challenges target measures on election rules, public-sector unions, transgender students, public funding and school vouchers.
News · KY
The Kentucky Court of Appeals ordered former Gov. Matt Bevin released from jail, a development not directly tied to an election or candidate race.
News · AZ
Mail voting will continue under existing procedures in Arizona, where three in four voters used it in the 2024 general election.
News · KS
A Johnson County judge struck the city’s claims against two petition organizers and classified the proposed ordinance as legislative.
News · MI
A federal court has left an injunction against proposed USPS mail-ballot lists and related rules in place.
News · NV
The justices rejected a Trump administration appeal that sought to disrupt Nevada’s existing process for mail ballots.
News · MI
The Supreme Court blocked federal mail-ballot restrictions as Michigan lawmakers began examining a citizenship petition’s rejection.
News · OH
The justices left in place a lower court ruling against required U.S. Postal Service screening of mail-in ballots.
News · ID
The court rejected Trump’s effort to restrict mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections, leaving election administration unchanged by that effort.
News · UT
The Supreme Court turned aside Trump’s requested mail-ballot restrictions ahead of the midterm elections.
News · VT
The Supreme Court left in place an injunction preventing new Postal Service rules for mail ballots ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
News · CO
Colorado can continue sending mail ballots to active registered voters under state law during the 2026 midterm election.
News · UT
Rubicon has filed another lawsuit against Utah Attorney General Derek Brown’s office over evidence tied to a billion case.
News · VT
Sarah Copeland Hanzas welcomed the court’s decision to block federal requirements for distributing and returning mail-in ballots.
News · UT
The court action creates a new legal dispute between a private landscaping company and the Utah Attorney General’s Office.
News · NE
The Omaha City Council acted on a Blackstone building settlement, a lower speed limit and SRO contracts.
News · NJ
The justices kept federal restrictions from taking effect as New Jersey prepares to send mail-in ballots for the November election.