Something strange happened in Juneau this summer. More than 3,000 Alaskans got a letter from the state asking a simple, almost old-fashioned question: are you a citizen? Normally that letter goes out to about 200 people a year — a quiet bit of housekeeping as Alaska checks its voter rolls against DMV records. This year
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New Jersey says it was a computer glitch. Harmeet Dhillon says: prove it. That’s the standoff now playing out between the Justice Department and Governor Mikie Sherrill, and it isn’t going away
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld state laws that let election officials count mail ballots arriving after Election Day, so long as they were postmarked by Election Day, turning back a Republican-backed
In Los Angeles this week, on the floor of a vast 144,000-square-foot ballot processing center, the work stations sat largely empty. Outside, the days passed. Inside, the ballots waited. This is California
There is a ritual to California’s elections now, and the ritual is patience. The polls close, the night ends, and the counting goes on — for days, sometimes weeks, in a state
