CNN: “After years of baselessly casting vote by mail as a fraud magnet, Trump in March issued an executive order that would push USPS far beyond delivering ballots — and into the business of deciding who gets one.”

“That order has raised alarms inside the Postal Service over whether it can or should take on such a complicated and controversial role, especially when it may need help from Trump and Republicans to steady its finances.”

“The Electoral College — our nation’s bizarre system that hands a few narrowly-divided states the privilege to choose our presidents — has been entrenched for two centuries,” Vox reports.  “But a long-game effort from reformers, which has played out quietly in blue states across the country over the past 20 years, has gotten it surprisingly close to toppling.” “And a blue wave in the 2026 midterms could finish the job.”

New York Times: “The Justice Department has demanded the identities of every worker who staffed the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., according to court records, escalating an ongoing federal investigation of the 2020 vote in Georgia’s most populous county that relies on false and debunked claims.”

“The demand targets employees of Fulton County elections as well as volunteer poll workers, who likely numbered in the thousands during the 2020 election, according to court records.”

CNN: “For decades, it’s generally been assumed that any mass purges of voter rolls had to be completed at least 90 days out from an election.”

“But Republicans and the Trump administration are now testing the scope of the federal law that imposes that ban on “systematic” removal programs within three months of an election, as President Donald Trump pushes for more aggressive reviews of voter rolls for non-citizens and other ineligible voters.”

California Democratic chair Rusty Hicks says he wants to get rid of the state’s idiosyncratic “open primary”, calling it a failure that risks pitting a crowded field of Democratic candidates against each other to the point where a Republican can be elected governor of one of the bluest states in the U.S., The Guardian reports.

Said Hicks: “The current system we have does not work. It needs to be revised or repealed.”

Reuters uncovered “a broader‑than‑previously known Trump administration effort to gain federal control over elections.”

“In Ohio, federal investigators have collected voter records in at least six counties… In Nevada, the FBI sought voter information from the secretary of state’s office… In Colorado, a senior Trump administration cybersecurity official approached a county clerk to seek access to voting machines…”

“Rather than seek a sweeping federal takeover of elections, the administration appears to be testing constitutional limits one state and one county at a time.”

“Michigan officials are pushing back on a demand from the Trump administration that the state provide election materials — including ballots, ballot receipts and ballot envelopes — to prove election fraud did not occur in November 2024,” the New York Times reports.

“The Department of Justice, in a letter last week addressed to the Wayne County clerk, threatened a court order if the records weren’t produced in a timely fashion.”

“Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill Monday that adds the state to the National Popular Vote Compact, an agreement among states to award their presidential electoral votes to the nationwide popular vote winner,” NPR reports.

“With Virginia, the total number of states signed on to the interstate compact is now 18, plus the District of Columbia, for a total of 222 electoral votes.”

“The compact doesn’t go into effect, though, until there are enough states signed up to reach the required 270 electoral votes to elect a president.”

CBS News: “Officials from 23 Democratic states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to block President Trump’s latest executive order that aims to restrict mail voting, arguing the directive unconstitutionally attempts to interfere with states’ administration of elections.”

CNN: “Democrats compared President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to overhaul elections to George Orwell’s 1984, in one of three lawsuits now challenging Tuesday’s executive order, which instructs the US Postal Service to determine who does and doesn’t receive a mail ballot.”

“Democratic congressional leaders and organizations, as well as two separate coalitions of voter advocacy groups, each filed lawsuits – prompting a sense of deja vu, as those Trump opponents previously brought successful legal challenges that halted parts of a March 2025 Trump executive order that sought to boost proof of citizenship requirements.”

Rick Hasen: “That certainly seems true of President Donald Trump’s second executive order on elections, issued on Tuesday. The order purports, among other things, to direct the United States Department of Homeland Security to create a list of all U.S. citizens over 18, to supply that list to states, and for the United States Postal Service to refuse to accept mailed-in ballots from voters unless that voter’s name appears on a list of the state’s eligible voters that it has given USPS months before the election…”

“The order will face multiple court challenges and likely will be found unconstitutional by courts. Even if courts did not intervene before November, the multiple rulemakings and new procedures for DHS, USPS, and state and local election officials envisioned by the order would be impossible to implement before November’s elections. Indeed, the order is so underwhelming that it suggests Trump’s real purpose was not its implementation but to create more confusion and litigation around elections, further undermining voter confidence in the integrity of American elections.”

President Trump on Tuesday is expected to sign an executive order cracking down on mail-in voting, CNBC reports.

The Daily Caller reports the executive order would require the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to compile a list of verified U.S. citizens in each state who are eligible to vote. 

New York Times: “Given the complexity of election laws and the difficult task of educating voters in an election year, some election administrators are not waiting for the court to rule to begin planning for a world where all ballots must arrive by Election Day.”

Politico: “The chair of the House committee overseeing elections is circulating a list of proposals to include in a budget reconciliation bill as Senate Republicans and the White House move to rev up the party-line process to pass pieces of a contentious GOP voting bill in the coming months.”

President Trump voted in Tuesday’s state House special election by mail even as he suggested on Monday that “mail-in voting means mail-in cheating,” CNN reports.

Said Trump: “You know, brought to my attention today that we’re the only country that does mail-in voting. Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating. I call it mail-in cheating, and we got to do something about it all.”