“An impassioned effort by some Arizona Senate Republicans to ban the use of ballot drop boxes failed,” the AP reports.

“About 90% of Arizona voters cast early ballots, either through the mail, at early voting sites or by using drop boxes put in place by county election officials. Those boxes are most important in the week before an election, when there is doubt a mail-in ballot will reach the local election department in time.”

“Former Detroit police Chief James Craig (R) and businessman Perry Johnson (R), two of the top candidates for the Republican nomination for governor, didn’t submit enough valid petition signatures to make the ballot,” the Detroit News reports.

“Coloradans have elected just one Republican governor in the last 50 years. A current GOP candidate for governor has an idea that could change that: stop counting each vote equally,” KUSA reports.

“Former Parker Mayor Greg Lopez, who holds the top line on the 2022 Republican primary ballot, says Colorado should create an electoral college system for electing candidates to statewide office.”

“A former Republican minority leader of the Colorado legislature is among the recipients of a trove of sensitive voting data leaked by a county official working with an activist seeking to prove President Donald Trump’s false stolen-election claims,” Reuters reports.

A former elections supervisor in rural Coffee County, Georgia, has told the Washington Post that she opened her offices to a businessman active in the election-denier movement to help investigate results she did not trust in the weeks after President Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat.

Florida Secretary of State Laurel Lee (R) is resigning, seven months before the November elections, WKMG reports.

Lee’s resignation does not specifically say why she is resigning.

“The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has told a lower appeals court to take another look at the controversial illegal voting conviction of Crystal Mason, who was given a five-year prison sentence for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election while she was on supervised release for a federal conviction,” the Texas Tribune reports.

“For the second year in a row, a judge has ruled that GOP Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters and Deputy Clerk Belinda Knisley are barred from overseeing an election — this time, the June primaries and November general election,” the Denver Post reports.

“Peters, an election denier who is seeking the Republican nomination for secretary of state, is also facing multiple investigations surrounding allegations of an election equipment security breach and campaign finance violations, including 10 criminal counts from a grand jury indictment.”

U.S. Senate candidate Jake Bequette’s (R) first name was misspelled on ballots in two Arkansas counties, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports.

Early voting for the state’s May 24 primary election began Monday.

“Prosecutors in Georgia investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election have interviewed several individuals who served as fake GOP electors from the state,” CNN reports.

“Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ office appears to be trying to determine whether the pro-Trump electors in Georgia had any knowledge that their actions may have been a component of a broader and potentially illegal plot to pressure election officials and overturn Joe Biden’s victory.”

“When Josh Zygielbaum left the Marine Corps more than ten years ago, he thought he would never have to wear body armor again,” ABC News reports.

“But now Zygielbaum is back to wearing a bulletproof vest as a Colorado county clerk — one of the many extreme measures he says he’s been forced to take as the state has emerged as a battleground in the shadowy world of election conspiracies.”

“GOP ward leaders voted to oust one of their own Saturday, hours after an Inquirer story highlighted his role in diverting dozens of mail ballots for Republican voters in South Philadelphia to a P.O. box under his control, raising concerns of a potential ‘ballot harvesting’ scheme,” the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

A state administrative judge ruled that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) “should be allowed to run for another term in office despite a push to remove her from the ballot,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

The decision “is a blow to Greene’s critics, who sought to block her on grounds she violated a 14th Amendment clause that bars members of Congress from serving if they tried to overthrow the government.”

“The Michigan State Police has expanded its investigation into whether third parties gained unauthorized access to voting machine data after the 2020 election, and is now examining potential breaches in at least one new county,” CNN reports.

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Anchorage Daily News: “Alaska has a robust and successful registration process. Anyone who applies for a Permanent Fund dividend — and in Alaska, that’s almost everyone — is automatically registered to vote unless they’re ineligible or opt out.”

“Between 1990 and 2019, Alaska had the highest gross migration rate of any state, and the state continues to stay at or near the top of the list for mobility.”

“State law allows people to stay registered when they move away, as long as they have an ‘intent of returning’ to Alaska and don’t register to vote anywhere else.”

New York Senate Democrats introduced legislation that would remove former Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin’s (D) name from the June primary ballot following his recent indictment on federal corruption charges, the Albany Times Union reports.