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Chris Deaton

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Chris Deaton is the Editor of Declare. He was a legislative and communications aide to multiple Republican members of Congress, the Managing Editor and later Editor of Red Alert Politics, and Deputy Online Editor of The Weekly Standard, during which he was a regular guest on Fox News, CNN, and talk radio. He has since been a political and editorial consultant focused on providing underrepresented conservative perspectives to institutions and projects focused on the country’s civic health and government reform.

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Administration

In Big Mail-Voting States, Officials Stress Ballot Options

As the Postal Service reforms its mail distribution, and after a year when its role in elections was in federal court, mail balloting has trust issues.
By Chris Deaton
Administration

Voter Roll Mistakes Happen, Whether in Louisiana or Jersey, or Texas or Oregon …

While dissimilar in nature, list management lapses sometimes crop up in states. Their randomness points to human and software errors generally — not a problem with noncitizen voting or another particular issue.
By Chris Deaton
Policy

Election Legislation Remains Stuck As Congress Breaks for Midterms

The Senate reached an inevitable end point, after a legislative year of bluster about the SAVE America Act from its boosters and one last failed vote on a voter ID measure.
By Chris Deaton
Policy

Mail Ballot Rule Won’t Apply to Midterms, Supreme Court Decides

Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurred with a majority of six other justices, writing specifically about his concerns of the timing of the rule with Election Day just weeks away.
By Chris Deaton
Administration

Top GOP Election Officials Alert Supreme Court to Implementation Challenges of Mail Voting Rule

‘Election officials know that late changes almost always lead to unforeseen consequences,’ the group wrote, asking the court to not allow the rule to apply to this year’s Midterms.
By Chris Deaton
Administration, Trust in Elections

A Reminder of Noncitizen Voting Numbers As the ‘Hunt’ Is On

There’s already a lot of factual background to the Trump administration’s increase of investigative resources two months from Election Day. It tells a story the gist of which is unlikely to change.
By Chris Deaton
Administration

Bringing You Up to Speed on Trump EO, Mail Ballot Rule

The USPS issued a final rule in late August, and the Supreme Court overruled a lower court in a related case one business day later. But the developments are hardly decisive about elections this November.
By Chris Deaton
Administration

Gabriel Sterling, Who Helped Conduct Georgia’s Noncitizen Vote Investigations, Has Questions about Census Analysis

“I am intrigued, but left with many questions” — six, in fact.
By Chris Deaton
Policy

Elections Continue UnSAVEd

What’s next for election policy and discourse, after Congress adjourns until mid-September with the president’s top legislative priority stuck.
By Chris Deaton
Trust in Elections

As National Debates Rage, State Election Officials Stick Up for Local Power

Secretaries of State volunteered their thoughts about local control of election administration during a biannual meeting.
By Chris Deaton, Miranda Combs
Administration

Trump Fires Election Commissioners, in Move More Symbolic Than Significant

The president’s removal of two Election Assistance Commission members left a technical support agency vacant but is likely to have little effect on the 2026 Midterms.
By Chris Deaton
Trust in Elections

Read About Declare’s New Election Integrity Map

We’re giving the term ‘election integrity’ some criteria and a 50-state tool to track them, striving to be as fair and accurate as possible.
By Chris Deaton, Stephen Richer