States challenging the Trump administration’s mail-voting order are asking the Supreme Court to leave lower-court limits on implementation in place while the legal dispute continues ahead of the November 2026 midterm elections.
Yellowstone County organizers say a conflict between Montana statutes led them to use the wrong signature-gathering deadline. They are seeking guidance from the secretary of state before the initiative’s ballot status is decided.
Candidates for affected Louisiana House races must qualify Aug. 5-7 after Gov. Jeff Landry canceled the previously scheduled May 16 elections.
Campbell County designated its Rustburg offices for 2026 in-person early voting, with weekday hours from June 19 through Aug. 1.
Georgia lawmakers ended the 2026 regular session without resolving how the state will comply with a law barring barcode-based official vote tabulation after July 1.
Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejected a petition seeking a public vote on the state’s congressional districts, but a court could still order the referendum onto the ballot before the 2026 elections.
Bristol polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Aug. 11, while the city lists in-person absentee-voting hours for Aug. 7 through 9.
California announced a multistate lawsuit challenging federal conditions on public-safety funding, arguing that grants are being used to pressure states over election administration.
Secretary of State Chuck Gray issued a June 12 defense of Wyoming’s primary system as voters, candidates and parties prepare for the Aug. 18 primary.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore now leads the governors’ association as states prepare for fights over federal authority, elections, workforce policy and health.
The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division plans to monitor Detroit’s Aug. 4, 2026 primary election, one of three Michigan locations named in the federal effort.
Manchester’s City Clerk’s Office will stay open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesdays from Aug. 4 through Sept. 1 for voter registration and absentee-ballot requests before the Sept. 8 state primary.
Minneapolis Elections & Voter Services will conduct public tests of systems used to tabulate polling-place and absentee ballots before the Aug. 11 Minnesota State Primary.
Connecticut’s early-voting period for the Aug. 11, 2026 primary runs Aug. 3 through Aug. 9. Unaffiliated voters needed to register with a party by noon July 31 to take part during early voting.
Wyoming’s voter-registration period for the 2026 primary closes Aug. 3, according to the Secretary of State’s election calendar. The primary is scheduled for Aug. 18.
Spokane-area voters face Washington’s August 4 primary, which will narrow qualifying local and county contests under the state’s top-two system.
Pennsylvania joined a multistate lawsuit challenging federal conditions attached to 2026 Homeland Security Grant Program funding, including election-related and immigration-enforcement requirements.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced $1 million in grants for county boards of elections to recruit and train nearly 40,000 precinct election officials ahead of the November 2026 general election.
The Montana Supreme Court issued a July 10, 2026, decision on the state’s voter-identification law. Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen said the result supports election integrity, while key details of the ruling were not included in the available announcement.
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez said a federal court dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit seeking the state’s unredacted voter-registration rolls.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford and Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar said a federal court rejected challenged provisions of an executive order affecting state election administration, including a documentary-citizenship requirement for military and overseas voters.
California announced a multistate lawsuit challenging federal conditions attached to public-safety funding that the state says would pressure states to follow federal preferences in election administration.
