Moody's Ballots by Election Day Act would bar states from counting any federal ballot that arrives after polls close, even one postmarked days early. Lee filed the House companion on September 3. The voter does everything right and the mail carrier decides.
H.Res. 1490 passed 220-192. It changes no law and spends no money. Its one concrete demand is the SAVE America Act, a proof-of-citizenship rule of the kind Kansas tried — where 31,089 people could not register, against 39 confirmed noncitizens the state found in the previous 14 years. 189 members with a page on this site voted yes.
Hours after a federal whistleblower told Congress the new Postal Service ballot system could 'derail the midterm elections,' Stutzman went on CNN, endorsed the rule, and would not drop a voter-roll number the government's own officials had privately walked back.
The GOP majority on the NC State Board of Elections killed Sunday hours in ten counties that had them in 2022, on 3-2 party-line votes. A former state Republican Party executive director, hired by the state auditor, had been calling county chairs urging exactly that.
A disclosure filed with Congress and released Sept. 1 says USPS 'discarded all best practices' racing to build Trump's mail-ballot system in time for a September 1 launch, and that if the rule survives court, potentially millions of voters may not get a ballot in time, or at all.
Texas' biggest swing county would go from 316 Election Day voting sites in 2022 to 224 this November. A civil rights coalition says many of the closures land in Black, Latino and Asian American neighborhoods.
At an August 13 rally in Columbus, a supporter asked Jackson to call Trump for federal troops because he feared Democrats would 'cheat.' Jackson didn't correct him. He said the governor would get the National Guard instead.
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Greg Abbott announced that Texas had removed more than a million people from its voter rolls.
Tony Gonzales resigned on April 14. Greg Abbott still has not called a special election, and the seat is not on track to be filled until January — a vacancy of roughly 260 days. A Democrat resigned the same day in California; voters there have already picked his replacement.
