Courtney is a staff writer who writes about voting rights, redistricting and election litigation and produces the Daily Docket. She received bachelor’s degrees in journalism and government and politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Previously, she covered local news at MoCo360.
A judge in New York today ruled that a state law that aligns certain local elections with state and federal elections in even-numbered years violates the state constitution. Counties and towns with odd-year elections will keep their election schedules.
Purdue University in Indiana will not have an Election Day polling place this year. The Tippecanoe County Election Board decided not to hold one, even though the campus has had one during the last four presidential elections.
Hurricane Helene ravaged multiple southern states last week, leaving significant damage in its wake, with only a month until the 2024 election.
Tribal members in Montana sued state and county election officials Friday to get them to run polling places on the Fort Peck Reservation, as the current nearest locations are 20 to 30 miles away at county courthouses.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Georgia Democratic Party sued the State Election Board on Monday after three of its MAGA members approved a rule requiring poll workers to hand count all ballots, even after being tabulated by machines.
A North Carolina judge denied a request from the Republican National Committee (RNC) and North Carolina Republican Party to prohibit University of North Carolina Chapel Hill students and employees from using a digital form of in-person voter identification.
Only 23 states and Washington, D.C. offer same-day voter registration, which allows voters to register to vote and then cast a ballot on the same day. “Same-day registration makes voting more accessible and encourages voters to participate in democracy,” said Carolyn DeWitt, president and executive director of Rock the Vote. Studies have shown that this […]
As voting gets underway in the 2024 election, voters in many states must provide photo IDs to cast their ballots. For the next election, some voters may even have to show proof of citizenship.
The House passed a bill Wednesday to fund the government until December and removed the proof of citizenship requirement that was in a previous version of the legislation.
The Republican Party’s attempt to hand former President Donald Trump all of Nebraska’s electoral votes has failed after a state GOP legislator announced his opposition, causing Gov. Jim Pillen (R) to cede the issue on Tuesday.