Pennsylvania’s Al Schmidt is pleased about progress combating threats and misinformation — but disappointed state legislators haven’t enabled faster counting of mail ballots.
Rachel Maddow looks at another new rule passed by the Trump-supporting members of Georgia's state election board, and how it's designed to complicate vote counting and muddy the integrity of the election in a way that Donald Trump could exploit to discuss.
Attempts by conservatives to purge state voter rolls ahead of the November election, including from Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, are ramping up, prompting concern from the Justice Department that those efforts might violate federal rules governing how states can manage their lists of registered voters.
Some state averages started later in 2024 because of a lack of sufficient early polling. Source: Averages by The New York Times; polls collected by FiveThirtyEight and The Times. Nate CohnChief political analyst Despite a strong debate performance,
Georgia's MAGA-dominated election board has made a last-minute rule that could throw the election into chaos by requiring hand-counting ballots. How this could help Donald Trump win Georgia even if he loses the popular vote there is explained by Joy Reid and her panel.
Election officials have planned for months — years — for November’s election. Last-minute changes and ongoing uncertainty threaten to undermine that.
The board, with a new right-wing majority, is set to consider new election rules just 45 days before the election.
Georgia 's State Election Board on Friday voted to approve a new rule that requires poll workers to count the number of paper ballots by hand after voting is completed, a change that critics worry could delay the reporting of election night results.
Trump majority on the battleground state's election board approved the move, which critics from both parties warn could lead to delays in reporting results.