“Quite frankly, we’re best off when the federal government stays out of our elections.”

It’s a feature, not a glitch, that elections in this country are very decentralized, and that decentralized nature of elections administration has been a feature since the Founding.

Starting with a summer conference for America’s secretaries of state, three-plus months from the 2026 Midterms, Declare is spending time with chief election officials to get their insights on the election process.

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 Talks with Stephen Richer

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

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

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.

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.

13 GOP members of Congress wrote the Postmaster General this month, asking for the steps his agency is taking to ensure mail ballots are “processed, postmarked, and delivered in a timely manner.”

A cohort in Illinois is sounding the alarm based on what they say they learned during a call with the agency.

A look at the Illinois county clerks’ association, who met in January to discuss new guidance from the Postal Service that has implications for voters — and the trust they put in election officials.

For a news website that covers, broadly speaking, “the political process,” the word declare might bring to mind a couple of images. One is the most famous piece of writing committed to parchment in American history. The other is a person speaking up; “stating emphatically,” as one definition goes.