A judge determined that using a federal data tool for verifying voters’ citizenship status was beyond its lawful purpose. But the existence of such a mechanism might fill a need.

The election lawyer and Declare contributor explains how Justice Barrett “said a lot without saying a lot” in her majority opinion in Watson v. Republican National Committee.

Declare Talks with one of its newest contributors, the Executive Director of We the Veterans, about making big splashes to recruit poll workers and the implications of a recent Supreme Court decision.

Declare’s Miranda Combs does a Q&A with leaders of veterans groups that signed an amicus brief in Watson v. RNC, about their concerns prior to the decision and issues facing military voters more broadly.

Declare Talks with Stephen Richer

The likely Republican nominee for governor in the nation’s most populous state is balancing frank criticism of California’s election rules with honesty about the results.

Lessons for how states can increase confidence while still being careful, accurate, and fair.

The chief election official in one of America’s biggest college towns talks about the task of communicating to voters.

Inaccurate characterizations of a very real error obscure what the public should know about how it gets fixed.

Declare tours a county of around 57,000 residents with the local election official responsible for organizing their primary election.

America’s top Postal Service expert cuts through the noise found on social media — answering earnest questions, and providing historical context and the facts.

With the latest round being attempted after a Supreme Court decision, there’s a question of who this actually is supposed to benefit. Some recent polling suggests that the voters don’t believe it’s them.

A 2024 law that did away with a method for counting votes didn’t create a necessary process for replacing it. Now against an implementation deadline with no solution, officials are uncertain — but the lesson is clear.

Kentucky’s Michael Adams talks to Declare about his experience with voter rolls and the Justice Department, federalism in elections, and more.

The Postal Service responded “quickly” to a concern of election clerks that Republican members of Congress took to the agency, but doubts remain about the implications of the apparently simple issue.

Former Kentucky secretary of state Trey Grayson talks about federalism and the shoe finding the other foot, in response to President Trump’s executive order on elections.

The reasons vary, from bureaucratic competence, to presidential authority, to how many Americans are ‘comfortable’ with a national voter registry.

The SAVE America Act is described as too big an instrument for too small an issue, by those who’ve run the election process at county-level.

A suit between the RNC and Mississippi will determine the fate of mail ballot rules in at least 14 states. Declare reports from outside the Supreme Court.

Primary season in the Magnolia State is concluding, but the calendar quickly turns to a mail ballot issue before the high court that involves their state’s leadership and could affect the general election across the U.S.