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Exclusive: Earlier this month, the Supreme Court blocked an executive order restricting voting by mail in ways that could have thrown the upcoming midterms into chaos. But the White House originally had far more disruptive plans, ProPublica has learned. 🧵
At an election science conference I went to in June, a panel was lit up by claims that USPS delays in primaries were causing more ballots to arrive late. Someone asked: Has anyone done research yet to see if USPS changes are tied to ballot rejections?
So @propublica did. 🧵
Postal Service leaders have also been emphasizing that voters should put their ballot in the mail more than a week before their states' deadline.
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USPS has instituted new policies of delaying postmarking of mail ballot and delivery.
ProPublica shows this has led more people's votes to be tossed, *&* that this is affecting disproportionately rural (red) counties with worse service to begin with.
propublica.org/article/mail-…
Visual representation of the judges that have shut down the Trump administration's demands for confidential voter data.
DOJ is 0 - 26, with four pending. Eight of the judges were appointed by Trump. via @peterelkind and Lucas Waldron @propublica. 🔗 in thread.
Scroll through timeline to see how judges - many appointed by Trump - eviscerated Trump's DOJ voter roll lawsuits, even as DOJ's argument for demanding the voter rolls changed over time: projects.propublica.org/trum…
In NV, DOJ said it found 16K noncitizen voters. When NV asked for a list, DOJ sent 185. NV checked those and found all of them were actually citizens.
In CA, DOJ first said it found 190K noncitizen voters. Now, it says 20K. Told CA officials they had 48 hours to check, then sued
.@USAttyEssayli for @USAO_LosAngeles to @FoxNews on the complaint against California over its voter list: “When we're telling them you have 20,000 non-citizens on the voter rolls, you're going to be diluting the votes of American citizens. Their response is, ‘It's too late; we already mailed the ballots.’ That's not how the law works, and we're going to go to court. This is a matter of law…All we are asking them to do is sequester the ballots.”
Our story uncovered the methods that DHS is using to try to identify noncitizen voters using public voter rolls, which insiders warned would produce an "ungodly" number of false positives: propublica.org/article/nonci…
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Breaking: More than 100 suspicious letters were sent to state election officials and other election-adjacent people (including a pollster) across the country. votebeat.org/national/2026/1…
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The Tohono O’odham Nation straddles the U.S.-Mexico border, and thousands of members live in Mexico.
The Trump administration’s 62-mile border wall would be an attack on tribal sovereignty, members and leaders say.
propublica.org/article/tohon…
Not going to try to influence your vote here, but also vote for Paper Trail @propublica vote.signalaward.com/PublicV…
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🚨 Reuters SCOOP
DOJ gave California 48 hours to match its voter rolls with a thumb drive that got dropped off on Tuesday with the names of suspected noncitizen voters.
DOJ says it may sue to throw out ballots if California misses the deadline.
reuters.com/world/us-justice…
This photo by @zaydee_s
"Homeless families told ProPublica that they had been removed from the waitlist for shelter because they stayed in a hotel."
Incredible and heartbreaking reporting by @nicolesantacruz @propublica propublica.org/article/maric…
