Carrie Levine

6 days ago | votebeat.org | Carrie Levine

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter to get the latest. What happened? A federal judge said she planned to rule by April 24 on a request to stop parts of President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order on elections from being enforced or implemented. What’s the dispute?

3 weeks ago | newsfromthestates.com | Carrie Levine

This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. It’s 2025. Do you know where your birth certificate is? How about your passport? If Republican officials get their way, more Americans will need to know the answers to those questions before they could register to vote.

3 weeks ago | votebeat.org | Alexander Shur |Natalia Contreras |Carter Walker |Carrie Levine

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Wisconsin’s free newsletter here. It is too soon to definitively say whether Madison’s April 1 election went off without any problems. But city and county election officials told Votebeat that they were confident that new absentee ballot procedures put in place after 193 ballots went uncounted in November would prevent another major error.

3 weeks ago | votebeat.org | Natalia Contreras |Alexander Shur |Carter Walker |Carrie Levine

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Texas’ free newsletter here. In a quick vote after little debate, the Texas Senate approved a bill that would require voters to provide proof of citizenship before registering, and would restrict them to voting in congressional races only if they do not. The bill, a Republican legislative priority, still needs approval in the state House before it can become law.

3 weeks ago | votebeat.org | Alexander Shur |Carter Walker |Carrie Levine |Jen Fifield

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Wisconsin’s free newsletter here. Denise Jess walked into a Madison polling place on Saturday to vote early in person, and encountered a familiar barrier: an absentee ballot envelope with a blank space for writing in her name, birthdate, and address. Jess, who is blind, chuckled along with her wife, who accompanied her to the polls.