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10 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: October 25, 2026.
MIT's Charles Stewart says the surge reflects heavy campaign spending and enthusiasm, not necessarily higher overall turnout, with Maine and Iowa showing unusual early activity.
NPR explains why results that look instant in some states take weeks elsewhere, and why election officials fear a fresh wave of conspiracy theories in the midterms.
The suit asks a federal court to bar California from counting mail ballots from suspected noncitizens; the state calls the department's voter-roll claims unsubstantiated.
Postal Service cuts to pickups and processing mean some envelopes aren't stamped the day they're mailed, and officials are urging voters to use drop boxes or election offices instead.
The attorney general said the Supreme Court's mail-ballot ruling changes nothing about the DOJ's election work, citing 11 illegal-voting charges in ten days. 'We're prosecutors, not regulators,' he said of AI.
WatchAn unsigned, one-paragraph order Monday left in place a Massachusetts judge's injunction against the USPS rule born of Trump's March executive order. Twenty-three states and D.C. had sued, and Justice Kavanaugh wrote that election officials 'do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections.'
Judge Indira Talwani said compliance was practically impossible in two months and that disenfranchisement would be practically inevitable. The Justice Department went to the Supreme Court.
The emergency application landed Thursday afternoon, one day before midterm ballots begin going out. The challengers have until 10 a.m. Tuesday to respond.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ruled the president's bid to build federal voter rolls and restrict mail-in voting unconstitutional, writing that 'the Constitution does not grant the President any specific powers over elections.'
The president is using slow ballot counts in California to renew efforts to cast doubt on election outcomes despite lack of evidence of widespread fraud.