National: Supreme Court faces new criticism for changing redistricting law close to 2026 elections | Lawrence Hurley/NBC

The Supreme Court has frequently admonished judges not to interfere in election cases when the process is already underway, but it is now being accused of doing exactly that in recent decisions favoring Republicans in redistricting fights. The court’s ruling in a case from Louisiana that weakened the Voting Rights Act has set off a frenzy in some Republican-led states to draw new congressional maps that favor their party. The stakes are high ahead of this year’s midterm elections that will determine which party controls the House. The court released its ruling, centered on Louisiana’s map but with national implications, less than three weeks before that state’s congressional primary and after delaying action on the case for more than a year. Now, Louisiana and Alabama are moving back their primaries to reset their districts, and other states could follow. The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, further expedited the process by granting special requests filed by Louisiana and Alabama, allowing the states to move forward with new maps that will eliminate majority-Black districts held by Democrats. Read Article

National: The Election Deniers Are Winning – The universe of people pressing debunked theories is so broad that it’s a feature of the system | Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Shane Harris and Sarah Fitzpatrick/The Atlantic

Clay Parikh, a cybersecurity expert from Alabama, spent years as a bit player in the world of election denial. He wasn’t a star with his own media platform, like the MyPillow guy. But he still gained a modest following by circulating conspiracy theories about President Trump’s 2020 defeat, including that poll workers gave Trump supporters—but not other voters—felt-tip markers to fill out their ballots, rendering them invalid and unreadable by voting machines. More recently, he’s asserted that a group of federal lawmakers is covering up foreign election interference. “They’re all puppets,” he said on the Rumble-streamed Real AF Patriot show in January. “They’re bought and paid for; it’s just by who.” He claimed that because of “undeniable” evidence of malfeasance, justice was coming. On that last point, Parikh may actually be in a position to know. He is now pushing debunked election claims from within the systems he rails against as a special government employee in the Trump administration. The search-warrant affidavit that allowed the FBI to seize election materials in Georgia in January—an extraordinary intervention by federal law enforcement—cited an analysis by Parikh. Last fall, Parikh began a contract with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office that made him a player in the state’s process for certifying election equipment. He boasts of access to the Wyoming secretary of state, who, he said on Rumble, has invited him to participate in an online presentation with residents. And at 1:01 a.m. on Christmas Day, Trump made Parikh internet famous when he reposted a video of the 63-year-old testifying in court that election equipment could be infiltrated remotely. Read Article

Arizona: DOJ argues ruling that blocked voter data request would have undermined civil rights | Jonathan Shorman/Stateline

The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday suggested to a federal appeals court that upholding a lower court decision blocking the Trump administration’s access to sensitive voter data would weaken its ability to investigate racial discrimination in voting. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held oral arguments on whether to reverse a district court judge’s opinion that Michigan doesn’t have to provide the Justice Department with its unredacted voter list that contains dates of birth, driver’s license and partial Social Security numbers. At the core of the case is how federal courts should interpret the 1960 Civil Rights Act, which grants the U.S. attorney general broad access to documents and records that “come into the possession” of election officials. Congress passed the law to empower investigations into voting discrimination against Black citizens. A lawyer for the Trump administration on Wednesday sought to discredit the logic behind the district court judge’s decision. He said the decision would have hampered 1960s era investigations into discrimination against Black voters if it had been in place at that time. An assistant Michigan attorney general called that a major misreading of the law. Read Article

Connecticut: Voting by mail to be a universal option | Mark Pazniokas/CT Mirror

A divided Senate gave final passage Wednesday to legislation that lifts the last barriers to no-excuse absentee voting in Connecticut and will make casting ballots by mail a universal option in this year’s primaries and general election. Passage of the bill came on a 25-11 vote on the last day of the General Assembly’s annual session, a day of pomp, circumstance and exhaustion. The Senate worked overnight until 8 a.m. then returned Wednesday afternoon. Once signed by Gov. Ned Lamont, the measure, House Bill 5001, will repeal a law that denies absentee ballots to any voter who cannot attest to being unable to vote in person due to sickness, disability, absence, military service, religious conflicts or being an elections worker. Read Article

Georgia Governor calls June special session over redistricting, ballot QR codes | Maya Homan and Alander Rocha/Georgia Recorder

Georgia lawmakers will reconvene in June for a special session to redraw the state’s political maps, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Wednesday. The move comes in the wake of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that weakened key protections under the Voting Rights Act. Lawmakers will also be tasked with addressing an upcoming deadline to change the state’s current election system, which relies on a ballot QR code to count votes. Under a state law passed in 2024, QR codes cannot be used for the official ballot count after July 1. Kemp broke with many other Republican-led states in the South when he announced that the state would not pursue redistricting ahead of the 2026 general election. Other states, like Alabama and Tennessee, have rushed to break up Black-majority districts since the ruling. Read Article

Michigan: Department of Justice demands voter registration lists at appeals court | Kevin Koeninger/Courthouse News Service

State election officials must provide unredacted, electronic versions of voter registration lists to the federal government to comply with the Civil Rights Act and maintain election integrity, the federal government argued Wednesday at the Sixth Circuit. Michigan’s Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson found herself in the crosshairs of the federal government in August 2025 after she refused its request for the state’s unredacted voter registration list. According to officials at the Department of Justice, several “irregularities” — including lower than average voter removal and inadequate voter confirmation numbers — raised concerns Michigan might not be in compliance with the National Voter Registration Act. Benson handed over the public version of the registration list but denied the government an unredacted copy based on her interpretation of both federal laws. Read Article

Montana district court blocks law restricting voter registration hours, allows voter ID law | Micah Drew/Daily Montanan

A Montana district court has ordered a temporary halt on a new law aimed at restricting Election Day voter registration and tightening the hours voters can register in the days leading up to it, while upholding a new voter identification law. In a 22-page order on Friday, District Court Judge Adam Larsen granted a preliminary injunction against Senate Bill 490, a bill sponsored by Sen. Mike Cuffe, R-Eureka. With the ruling, the state’s existing rules stay in place, allowing voters to register to vote on Election Day as long as they are in line by the close of voting hours. “Unions like ours are organized around the fundamental right of every voice to be heard and every vote to count in our workplaces and society,” said Amanda Curtis, president of the Montana Federation of Public Employees, which brought the lawsuit against the state and Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen. “Montanans voted to protect same day voter registration a decade ago, and today MFPE members are proud to have defended this right from overreaching politicians.” Read Article

Pennsylvania won’t test internet-connected electronic pollbooks in 2026 primary | Carter Walker/Votebeat

The Pennsylvania Department of State is postponing a pilot program to connect electronic pollbooks — the devices election workers use to check voters in at the polls — to the internet. Counties were slated to test the function in the May 19 primary, but the department said last week that unresolved technical questions and low interest from counties led them to delay the pilot until at least next year. Only Philadelphia, Lebanon, and Delaware counties had signed up for the pilot, the department confirmed. “While the anticipated pilots are being postponed, the feedback and collaborative discussions have helped identify key technical and operational considerations that will support more informed decision-making in the future as DOS plans a more comprehensive feasibility review of full connectivity after the 2026 General Election,” said Ellen Lyon, a spokesperson for the department. Read Article

South Carolina: ‘Mismanagement’ by state treasurer contributed to cost overruns for voting machines, report finds | Jessica Holdman/SC Daily Gazette

Loan negotiations by the state treasurer’s office contributed to unplanned overages and sky-high financial penalties against the Election Commission for new voting machines, according to a report Thursday by South Carolina’s inspector general. In a statement, Treasurer Curtis Loftis denied that his office was at fault. He laid the blame squarely on the state’s former elections chief, who was fired last September and arrested a month later on charges of embezzlement and misconduct unrelated to the voting machine contract. The nearly year-long investigation found mismanagement in the office of the state’s top banker. Whether it represented misconduct is outside the inspector general’s purview, the report noted. The investigation, requested by a Senate chairman, followed his committee’s inquiry into a $1.8 billion accounting error in the state’s books. Read Article

Texas election officials face growing fatigue as back-to-back elections stretch staff, volunteers | Daisy Escatel and Ella Mitchell/KETK

As early voting begins Monday for Texas’ primary runoff elections, county election offices across the state are preparing for yet another round of voting in what has become an increasingly relentless election calendar. For some Texas counties, the May 27 primary runoff marks the third election since March, with additional runoff elections and potential constitutional amendment elections still ahead later this year. Election administrators say the nonstop cycle is pushing both full-time staff and volunteer poll workers to their limits. Texas voters have already participated in several elections in 2026, beginning with the March primary elections, followed by city, school and special elections in May. In many communities, races that failed to produce a majority winner have triggered runoff elections, requiring county offices to quickly reset and prepare all over again. Read Article

US Virgin Islands: Paper Ballot Bill Held Again After Clash Over Hand-Counting, Machine Trust and Nearly $50K Cost Estimate | Nelcia Charlemagne/The Virgin Islands Consortium

A proposal by Senator Franklin Johnson to allow voters to request hand-counted paper ballots was held in committee for a second time Wednesday, after elections officials maintained their opposition and lawmakers agreed that testifiers needed more time to review a late-delivered amendment. Introducing the measure, Senator Johnson stressed that the bill “does not end machine voting” and does not eliminate use of the DS200 tabulation machine. “This revised amendment says the paper ballot option is an addition to any voting method already allowed by law,” he explained. Under the proposal, a voter who chooses to use a paper ballot could request that it be counted by hand. Those ballots would be stored separately from ballots tabulated by the DS200 machine and would not be scanned. Senator Johnson said the amendment addresses concerns previously raised by Elections Supervisor Caroline Fawkes, including spoiled ballots, chain of custody, reconciliation and other issues. Read Article

Wisconsin: FBI sought to interview top Milwaukee County election official | Shaquille Brewster and Kyla Guilfoil/NBC

The FBI tried to interview one of the top elections officials in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, according to the county clerk’s office. An FBI agent visited the home of county Elections Director Michelle Hawley and left her business card, County Clerk George Christenson said in a statement Wednesday. “It is unfortunate that the FBI chose to visit the private residence of Milwaukee County’s Elections Director rather than contact the Election Commission’s office directly,” Christenson said. “No dedicated public servant should be subjected to that type of intrusion simply for carrying out her responsibilities with integrity and professionalism.” Christenson said the county will follow up to determine the nature of the visit but added that “the 2020 Presidential Election was fair and transparent, and its results are accurate. This has been proven repeatedly over the last six years by the post-election canvass, the Presidential Election Recount, State court-based challenge, Federal court-based challenge, the forensic audit by the Wisconsin’s Legislative Audit Bureau, and two additional independent audits,” he said. “Continuing to relitigate settled questions does not strengthen public confidence in elections but it undermines it.” Read Article

Wyoming: Hand-count push fails in Weston County | Alexis Barker/Wyoming Tribune Eagle

In a split vote, the Board of Weston County Commissioners voted against a proposal to implement hand-counted elections for the 2026 primary and general elections after a lengthy discussion focused on election integrity, staffing concerns and the current instability within the county clerk’s office. Members of the Weston County Republican Party’s election integrity committee returned to the commissioners’ chambers this month seeking a final decision on their proposal to eliminate voting machines in favor of hand-counting ballots. The committee first approached the board on April 21. Committee members argued that the county had the legal authority to move away from electronic tabulators and urged commissioners to act quickly in order to recruit and train election judges before statutory deadlines. Read Article

National: US cyber team hasn’t been activated yet to protect midterm elections from foreign meddling | Sean Lyngaas/CNN

For the first election cycle in years, US military and intelligence officials have not yet activated a specialized team dedicated to detecting and thwarting foreign threats to elections, according to comments from those agencies to Congress and CNN, alarming some lawmakers and former officials who have served on the team. A failure to activate the team would be a “major national security mistake and I hope that they will correct it in the weeks to come,” Senator Angus King of Maine, an independent who sits on the armed services committee, told CNN. For every general and midterm election since the 2020 election, the Election Security Group (ESG) has been a hub for officials from the National Security Agency, the code-breaking and signals intelligence agency, and US Cyber Command, the military’s hackers, to share intelligence and launch counter attacks against trolls from Russia, Iran and elsewhere who were trying to undermine US elections. Read Article

National: Why red states are pushing back on Trump administration’s request for voter data | Cy Neff/The Guardian

The Department of Justice’s quest to secure sensitive voter data is finding opposition in typically friendly territory – several staunchly conservative states. As of 1 April, the Department of Justice has sued 30 states and the District of Columbia for failing to turn over full copies of their voter registration lists. The push has hit repeated roadblocks, including legal defeats in California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island, Arizona and Michigan. But the justice department is also running into obstacles in some of America’s reddest states, with Trump strongholds Utah, West Virginia, Georgia, Kentucky and Idaho all refusing to hand over the requested data. In their objections, the Republican-controlled states cite their constitutionally guaranteed authority over election administration, as well as concerns over data security, privacy laws and the questionable legal grounds of the department’s request. Read Article

National: Trump keeps saying the quiet part out loud on changes to the 2026 election | Aaron Blake/CNN

President Donald Trump doesn’t need any invitation — or any evidence, really — to claim that an election is “rigged,” as he’s done many times over the last 11 years. But just imagine for a second that, when his foes did something that Trump claimed amounted to rigging an election, they announced it by saying, “This is going to help us win elections!” Because that’s what the president has now done, over and over again. As he’s pushed a number of executive and legislative actions in recent months — from nixing the Senate filibuster, to requiring voter ID and proof of citizenship, to eliminating mail ballots — he’s repeatedly pitched them as ideas that will help Republicans win the 2026 midterm elections. Read Article

National: Tracking the DOJ’s effort to get U.S. voter registration data | Gary Grumbach/NBC

The Justice Department is asking states to agree to what they call a “confidential memorandum of understanding,” which would require states to include voter names, dates of birth, residential addresses, state driver’s licenses and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers. The DOJ says that after the states hand over the data, they’ll alert the officials to any “voter list maintenance issues, insufficiencies, inadequacies, deficiencies, anomalies, or concerns, the Justice Department found when testing, assessing and analyzing” the state’s voter registration lists. Notably, six Republican-leaning states have refused to turn over their data: Idaho, Utah, West Virginia, Kentucky and Georgia. And not every state that has handed over their data has agreed to sign the agreements; Iowa, Mississippi, South Dakota and Tennessee did not. Across the country, seven federal judges in seven states have dismissed the DOJ’s litigation, with one judge in Rhode Island calling it a “fishing expedition.” The DOJ has appealed three of those rulings. The rest of the lawsuits are ongoing in courtrooms from coast to coast. Read Article

National: Dozens of election-denying candidates could control voting | Miles Parks/NPR

Lost in the shuffle of the 2026 midterms — the unprecedented mid-decade redistricting, President Trump's sagging favorability numbers and Democrats' hopes of retaking the House and potentially the Senate — is an election story that could have implications for 2028 and beyond. In 23 states, including five presidential swing states, candidates who have denied election results are running for offices that will have a direct role in certifying future elections. That is according to a new analysis, shared exclusively with NPR ahead of its release, by States United Action, a nonprofit that seeks to protect elections and has been tracking candidate positions on the validity of election results since 2022. Read Article

National: How AI Can Help (and Hurt) Election Officials | Carl Smith/Governing

On his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mused that ChatGPT might already be “more powerful than any human who has ever lived.” Cause for celebration in some contexts, perhaps — but not if those hoping to disrupt electoral processes have ready access to such tools. Researchers say AI capabilities have doubled every seven months since 2019. By this metric, AI is more 675 times “better” today than it was during the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. This doesn’t necessarily mean new ways to interfere with elections, says Mike Moser, a consultant for the Election Security Exchange. The risks aren’t new, he says, but AI advancement, particularly the development of large language models, exacerbates them. Moser describes it as the “industrialization” of malicious actors. “It lowers the barriers for those that don’t have the scale or the sophistication to do their own coding,” he says, “Or it helps them do faster reconnaissance and research.” A study by Stanford researchers found that messages on policy issues generated by AI were seen as “more logical, better informed and less angry” than those authored by humans. Izzy Gainsburg, associate director of Stanford’s AI for Public Benefit Lab, sees a bigger long-term concern. Read Article

Opinion: John Roberts Believes in an America That Doesn’t Exist | Jamelle Bouie/The New York Times

“Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield,” President Lyndon Johnson declared as he signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965. “This act flows from a clear and simple wrong,” he continued. “Millions of Americans are denied the right to vote because of their color. This law will ensure them the right to vote.” And so it did. The Voting Rights Act put the final nail in the coffin of American apartheid and opened the door to something that looked worthy of the name democracy. It brought a flowering of political participation, not just in the states of the former Confederacy but throughout the country, as disadvantaged and disenfranchised Americans took advantage of new rules and protections to fight for and win political power. Latinos, Native Americans and other ethnic and linguistic minorities all won greater access and influence under the voting right act and its subsequent amendments and reauthorizations. Read Article

Alaska Governor introduces new elections bill days after vetoing last version | Mari Kanagy/Anchorage Daily News

After vetoing the Legislature’s election reform bill last week, Gov. Mike Dunleavy requested a do-over with a largely similar elections bill Thursday. It includes a new signature verification process and delays implementation past the November general election. But lawmakers said they don’t have the time or political will to pass the governor’s new version, with less than two weeks left in the regular session. “There’s simply not time left in the session to entertain another bill that the governor’s office has put forward, which, to me, is almost a gratuitous effort to try to salvage what I clearly would describe as a very questionable decision to veto the bill in the first place,” said House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, a Dillingham independent. The vetoed Senate Bill 64 would have made broad reforms to the state’s election system, representing years of negotiations and priorities from both sides of the aisle in the Legislature. Read Article

Arizona: Judge strikes down rule requiring counties to aid voters who go to wrong polling place | Sasha Hupka/Votebeat

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes can’t force election officials to provide a way for voters who show up at the wrong polling place to cast a valid ballot, according to a new court decision striking down a key provision of the state’s election rulebook. In 2023, Fontes wrote a policy into the state’s election procedures manual directing counties that assign voters to polling places to allow out-of-precinct voters to cast their ballots on accessible voting devices, which state and federal law requires must be available at every polling place for voters with disabilities. Before that, voters had no way to cast a valid ballot if they showed up at the wrong polling location. Weeks before the 2024 election, Fontes, a Democrat, sued Pinal County, a bright-red jurisdiction sandwiched between Phoenix and Tucson, for failing to comply with the new policy. A Pinal County Superior Court judge ruled that the county was violating state law by not following the rule, but declined to force it to comply in that election. Later, the Arizona Supreme Court similarly ruled that it was far too close to the election to compel the county to change course. Since then, the two sides have continued to fight the issue in court. Read Article

Why California Wants Faster Election Results | Guy Marzorati/KQED

Gov. Gavin Newsom sent a letter to election officials in California’s 58 counties this week with a simple request: count votes faster. Newsom and state lawmakers have spent years building a vote-by-mail system that maximizes convenience and accessibility for California voters. The tradeoff: a longer vote count that President Donald Trump and Republicans have seized on to spread false claims of voter fraud. “We must acknowledge that the longer the voting count takes, the more mis- and disinformation spreads,” Newsom wrote. “That means we must do all that we can to tabulate votes quickly and accurately. Time is of the essence in preventing election lies from taking hold.” More than 80% of California voters cast ballots by mail in the November 2024 election. Unlike in-person voting, where verification happens upfront, mail-in ballots often arrive in bulk just before or after Election Day. This surge creates a backlog of ballots that must be inspected and have their signatures verified before they can be counted. Read Article

Georgia: Trump Administration Demands Names of 2020 Election Workers | Nick Corasanti, Richard Fausset and Alan Feuer/The New York Times

The Justice Department has demanded the identities of every worker who staffed the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., according to court records, escalating an ongoing federal investigation of the 2020 vote in Georgia’s most populous county that relies on false and debunked claims. The demand targets employees of Fulton County elections as well as volunteer poll workers, who likely numbered in the thousands during the 2020 election, according to court records. The demand, which came via a federal grand jury subpoena, appears to be the latest effort by President Trump and his administration to use the investigative power of the federal government to pursue false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. With midterm voting underway in many states, including Georgia, the effort risks further undermining public confidence and sowing chaos among voters. Read Article

Georgia: Judge denies Fulton County’s request for return of 2020 ballots seized in FBI raid | Caleb Groves/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the U.S. Department of Justice does not have to return 2020 election ballots seized by FBI agents to Fulton County. It is the latest twist in the bitter fight between Fulton County and the Trump administration over the county’s 2020 election records. Fulton could appeal the ruling to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The ruling is a substantial blow for Fulton officials as it may have been the county’s best shot at reclaiming the election documents. Fulton County Commission Chair Robb Pitts said he agrees that the affidavit was troubling, but adamantly opposed Boulee’s ruling. He said the county would pursue all available legal options and called the culmination of the DOJ’s efforts to probe the 2020 election a coordinated effort aimed at harassing and intimidating the county. Read Article

Michigan: Judge dismisses felony charges in Michigan election tampering case | Bridge Michigan

A Hillsdale County judge on Thursday dismissed felony charges against a former election clerk and attorney accused of allowing unauthorized access to voting equipment following the 2020 presidential election. A lower court made an “error of law” and “abused its discretion” when it ordered Stephanie Scott and Stefanie Lambert stand trial on related felony charges, Circuit Court Judge Sara Lisznyai wrote in an eight-page ruling. Scott was serving as Adams Township Clerk in 2021 when she refused to turn over a missing tabulator amid a quest to prove the prior year’s presidential election was rigged against Donald Trump. Lambert, of metro Detroit, served as her attorney at the time. Read Article

North Carolina elections board hired a lawyer who was also suing it | Lynn Bonner/NC Newsline

State elections director Sam Hayes hired one of North Carolina Republicans’ go-to lawyers to defend the state Board of Elections in a lawsuit this year, even though that lawyer was representing clients with active lawsuits against the board in four other cases in state and federal court. Phil Strach represents Republican legislators, the Republican National Committee and the state Republican party in redistricting and election cases. As Hayes sought to hire Strach, Strach asked Hayes to sign a waiver acknowledging that his firm was representing board adversaries in other cases. “Your consent signifies a waiver of any and all conflicts on behalf of other Firm clients which may exist in present unrelated matters or could arise in future unrelated matters due to this representation,” Strach’s January 30 letter said. “You agree to not use our representation in the New Engagement as a ground for seeking our disqualification in such matters,” Strach’s letter said. Read Article

South Dakota: New requirement for combined state, local elections brings dizzying array of ballot variations | Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight

A new South Dakota law intended to make voting easier is doing the opposite for some of the people running elections. The new law requires cities and schools to hold their elections with the statewide primary in June or the general election in November, rather than on separate dates. Lawmakers hope the change will increase turnout, but it has some county auditors producing a staggering number of ballot variations in the interest of voter convenience. Minnehaha County Auditor Leah Anderson told South Dakota Searchlight her office is printing 324 different types of ballots, known as ballot styles, ahead of the June election. Other county auditors reported a range from a dozen to more than 100. Read Article

Utah: ‘Fear sells. Facts are boring,’ Lt. Gov. Henderson defends election security | Lori Prichard/KSL

Utah’s top elections official, Lt. Governor Deidre Henderson, said maintaining trust in voting has become one of the more difficult parts of her job, as misinformation, new laws and legal challenges collide. Henderson, who is responsible for overseeing elections in the state, said public confidence is increasingly being tested despite what she describes as a secure and well-managed system. “Fear sells. Facts are boring,” Henderson said. “And that has been the biggest challenge of my office.” Henderson pointed to the rapid spread of misinformation as a major factor. In reality, she said, “rigging” an election is incredibly difficult. “It’s very hard to manipulate that kind of system to affect a change in an election outcome,” she said. “But it’s easy to take little pieces of information here or there and create false narratives out of it.” Read Article

Virginia rejoins voter-registration data-sharing group after controversial exit | Colin Wood/StateScoop

Nearly three years after leaving the Electronic Registration Information Center, Virginia has renewed its membership with the nonprofit that allows states to share voter registration data to ensure only those allowed to vote may do so. Abigail Spanberger, Virginia’s governor, announced Thursday that the state has rejoined ERIC, as its 27th member, after the state pulled out in 2023 under the direction of former Gov. Glenn Youngkin. In an executive order in March, Spanberger said not participating in ERIC had made it “more difficult for Virginia’s election administrators to obtain information to help maintain Virginia’s voter rolls and otherwise engage in routine voter list maintenance,” such as identifying voters who’d moved to other states. In a press release on Thursday, Steven Koski, Virginia’s elections commissioner, claimed that rejoining ERIC will provide “a key source of information that will bolster our comprehensive voter list maintenance processes.” Read Article