Voting

Elections officials say it wouldn’t be difficult to transition back to a hard Election Day deadline, which was in place until 2022.

A California sheriff running for governor has seized more than half a million ballots cast in a November special election from county election officials, saying he's investigating a ballot count discrepancy.

At a news conference Friday, Sen. Ron Wyden and Secretary of State Tobias Read said they would defend mail-in voting and the state’s election integrity.

Shasta County supervisors declined to defend a ballot measure restricting mail voting. An appeals court stay now leaves open the possibility it could reach the June ballot.

The Wednesday call with election officials featured a prominent election conspiracist urging states to add voter data to a national database.

Separate lawsuits by Democratic state attorneys general and by Oregon and Washington, which rely heavily on mailed ballots, have blocked various portions of Trump’s order.

A federal judge tentatively ruled Wednesday that Oregon does not have to hand over personally identifiable data of more than 3 million Oregon voters to the federal government.

State lawmakers are already taking legislative steps to “Trump-proof” California’s elections, starting with a bill designed to keep President Donald Trump off of California’s ballot in 2028.

The two northwestern states were the first to vote entirely by mail

The proposals come after revelations that hundreds of possible noncitizens were registered to vote in error.

Without the original “trigger clause,” Prop 50 will still go into effect.

Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read previously called for Christy McCormick to resign.