AvatarThe GuardianAvatarAvatarRepublicans are quietly rigging election maps to ensure permanent ruleverified_publisherThe Guardian - Guardian staff reporterThe past decade in Ohio shows how bad it can get – and how quickly. Despite the state’s voters often swinging Democratic, 75% of its congressional delegates are Republican
AvatarThe GuardianAvatarAvatarRepublicans in Arizona push measures to curtail citizen-led initiativesverified_publisherGuardian US - Guardian staff reporterThe option to bypass the legislature, which allowed for marijuana legalization and minimum wage increases, is under threat
AvatarThe GuardianAvatarAvatarKamala Harris says ‘everything on the line’ in midterm electionsverified_publisherGuardian US - Ed PilkingtonVice-president warns that the elections will determine whether ‘age-old sanctity’ of right to vote would be protected
AvatarThe GuardianAvatarAvatarNew Mexico official first politician removed over January 6 attackverified_publisherGuardian US - Sam LevineThis marks the first time since 1869 that a court removed an official for participating in an insurrection
AvatarThe GuardianAvatarAvatar‘The US could lose the right to vote’: top official’s democracy warningverified_publisherGuardian US - Lauren GambinoJena Griswold urges Americans to pay attention to crucial but often overlooked races for secretary of state
AvatarThe GuardianAvatarAvatarHe challenged his all-white city council in Alabama. Now he’s on itverified_publisherGuardian US - Sam LevineEric Calhoun, a Black resident who sued Pleasant Grove’s discriminatory voting system in 2018, was sworn in as council member on Monday
AvatarThe GuardianAvatarAvatarElection denialism remains powerful in Republican politicsverified_publisherGuardian US - Sam LevineRepublican nominees in Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania are on the verge of claiming offices where they would have enormous power over elections
AvatarThe GuardianAvatarAvatarHow the movement to undermine election results is spreading in the USverified_publisherGuardian US - Sam LevineFrom Texas volunteers reviewing 2020 primary ballots to objections against absentee drop boxes in Kansas, undermining confidence in elections is metastasizing
AvatarThe GuardianAvatarAvatarRepublicans keep gerrymandered maps – after they were struck down by courtverified_publisherGuardian US - Sam LevineOhio Republicans have maneuvered to keep districts in place for this fall’s election despite the state supreme court striking them down seven times this year
AvatarThe GuardianAvatarAvatarWhy a ‘spider crab’ is crawling to the top of a US ‘I voted’ sticker contestverified_publisherGuardian US - Sam LevineVoters in Ulster county, New York, may receive a sticker of Hudson Rowan’s design this November – and many say it’s ‘a fitting image’ of the political scene
AvatarThe GuardianAvatarAvatarCould the US supreme court give state legislatures unchecked election powers?verified_publisherGuardian US - Sam LevineAt Moore v Harper’s core is the independent state legislature theory, giving them free rein for setting federal elections rules
AvatarThe GuardianAvatarAvatarRepublicans seek to install ‘permanent election integrity infrastructure’ across USverified_publisherGuardian US - Sam LevineLeading election denier promoting local groups to ‘oversee’ elections and determine if officials are ‘friend or foe’