“President Trump doubled down on his view that Republicans should ‘nationalize’ voting in the U.S., questioning whether certain states should continue running their own elections as spelled out in the Constitution,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Said Trump: “I want to see elections be honest, and if a state can’t run an election, I think the people behind me should do something about it.”

He added: “Take a look at Detroit…take a look at Philadelphia, take a look at Atlanta… The federal government should not allow that. The federal government should get involved. These are agents of the federal government to count the vote. If they can’t count the vote legally and honestly, then somebody else should take over.”

“Increasingly violent threats toward and harassment of public officials — from county clerks up to the president — are driving more and more of those figures out of their jobs, a particular concern among local election officials, who have struggled with attrition for years,” Politico reports.

“In the years since the 2020 election, roughly 50 percent of top local election officials across 11 western states have left their jobs since November 2020, according to a new report from Issue One, a bipartisan organization that tracks election issues and supports campaign finance reforms.”

“An official in Fulton County, Georgia, announced the county will file a lawsuit Monday over the FBI’s search and seizure of 2020 election records,” CNN reports.

“The FBI served a warrant last Wednesday at the Fulton County election office, near Atlanta, Georgia, taking 700 boxes of election materials as it probes alleged voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.”

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard visited the site of the FBI search of elections offices in Fulton County, Georgia, “giving her a highly unusual presence in domestic law enforcement that one former official called unprecedented,” Reuters reports.

FBI agents were executing a search warrant at the Fulton County elections office near Atlanta on Wednesday, the AP reports.

“For months, President Donald Trump’s administration has been trying to force Minnesota’s Democratic leaders to turn over detailed information about the state’s voters, including driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers,” the Washington Post reports.

“State officials have said no. Now, Attorney General Pam Bondi is repeating those demands in a letter that also references the federal government’s aggressive deployment of immigration agents to the streets of Minneapolis.”

CNN: Bondi’s injection of voter roll demands into Minneapolis ICE tensions draws claims of “ransom.”

Large majorities of Americans in both parties support requiring states to open up congressional primaries to all voters, according to a new Unite America poll.

Seven in 10 of registered voters polled want to open up primaries while only 20% oppose doing so.

Mother Jones: “Over the last six months, the Justice Department has demanded full, unredacted voter rolls from dozens of states in an effort to create the federal government’s first-ever national database of registered voters, accompanied by their private information: party affiliation, voting history, Social Security numbers, driver’s license information, even physical characteristics.”

“The largest city in Alaska is about to undertake an experiment that feels both inevitable and impossibly futuristic in an era of pervasive mistrust toward elections: allowing all voters to cast ballots from their smartphones,” the New York Times reports.