Early Voting & Voter Turnout News

For Early Voting & Voter Turnout News, find information on when and how voters cast ballots, including early in-person voting, absentee and mail ballots, registration deadlines, and Election Day participation. Reporting also covers state voting procedures, participation data, and turnout trends.
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    Georgia Election Vendors Boast of Equipment as Lawmakers Prepare to Issue Report
    Summary ATLANTA—The Joint Election Equipment Specifications and Standards Committee held its sixth meeting at the State Capitol on Thursday morning, hearing from two vendors who made their pitches as to why their recommendations should be considered in the state’s next voting system. The committee is made up of two co-chairs, state Sen. Max Burns, R-Sylvania,…
    Rebecca Buis
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    Election Day Voters Will Determine Midterms Outcome, Poll Says
    The fight for control of Congress will come down to Election Day voter turnout, a new Cygnal poll has found.   “Democrats have banked their early votes,” Brent Buchanan, founder and CEO of Cygnal, said, “so this election now comes down to who shows up on Election Day.”   According to the company’s Oct. 23 and 24…
    Malia Loock
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    Early Voting Numbers Soar Across Virginia
    More than 870,000 Virginians had cast an early ballot in the 2026 midterm elections as of two weeks before Election Day. That represents more than a quarter of the total voting turnout in 2022, the last time there was a midterm election without a presidential campaign to drive up turnout. According to the Virginia Public…
    Rich Tucker
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    New Poll Shows Jackson, Bottoms in Standoff as Early Voting Surges Across the Peach State
    Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, a Democrat, are in a dead heat, according to a new poll by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The poll, conducted by the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs Survey Research Center, shows Jackson polling at 46%, while Bottoms follows closely behind…
    Rebecca Buis
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    What to Make of Ohio’s Early Voting Numbers
    With the midterms just under three weeks away, Ohio has nearly a month of early voting, spanning from Oct. 6 to Nov. 1 before Election Day. The Daily Signal spoke with Tony Schroeder, chairman of the Putnam County Republican Party, for his thoughts on what the preliminary data could mean for voter enthusiasm. Initial analysis…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Collins Gears Up as Early Voting Commences, Vance Visits Atlanta
    ATLANTA—On Wednesday morning, Rep. Mike Collins welcomed a campaign appearance by Vice President JD Vance, noting that Vance’s appearance, along with President Donald Trump’s upcoming appearance on Friday, show that Georgia is “in play.” Vance’s visit comes at a crucial point leading up to the midterm election, where Collins is battling Sen. Jon Ossoff in…
    Rebecca Buis
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    Rick Jackson Ignites Supporters at Georgia Rally as Early Voting Kicks Off
    On Monday evening, Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson spoke to supporters at a campaign rally in Grovetown, Georgia, just west of Augusta. Jackson was joined by Gov. Brian Kemp and first lady Marty Kemp as he made jabs against the record of his Democrat challenger, former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. Kemp was first to…
    Rebecca Buis
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    The Election Issue Few Pollsters Are Talking About
    Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, was once known as the birthplace of Henry Ford and home of Ford Motor Co.’s headquarters. Today it proudly boasts the title “Arab Capital of America,” with the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the United States. In 2023, it officially became the country’s first majority-Arab city, with about…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Former Mail Carrier Accused of Dumping Hundreds of Mail-In Ballots Ahead of Primary
    The Justice Department unsealed an indictment against a former U.S. Postal Service worker accusing him of tossing about 300 mail-in ballots into a dumpster ahead of the June Utah primary. Damon Matai Seei, 34, of Payson, Utah, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Sept. 16. The indictment was sealed. He was arrested and…
    Fred Lucas
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    Early Voting Underway in Virginia With Senate Race, 11 House Seats on Ballot
    As of Friday, early voting is underway in Virginia, and voters can cast ballots in person through Halloween ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms. Among other key races in the commonwealth, Democrat Sen. Mark Warner is seeking a fourth term against Republican Bert Mizusawa, a retired U.S. Army major general. In addition, all 11 congressional…
    Rich Tucker
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    Trump Slams Supreme Court Mail-In Voting Decision
    President Donald Trump slammed the Supreme Court for rejecting his bid to restrict mail-in ballots before the midterm elections. “Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules on Trump Mail-In Ballot Rules
    The Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s mail-in ballot rules to go into effect Monday, upholding a federal judge’s preliminary injunction blocking them. “The government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the district court’s preliminary injunction,” the court ruled in an unsigned order. The court ruled that “the equitable factors…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Administration Renews Supreme Court Bid to Limit Mail-in Voting
    WASHINGTON, Sept 6 (Reuters)—The Trump administration on Sunday renewed its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to allow a plan that could limit mail-in ballots ahead of November’s congressional elections, after a federal judge last week blocked those restrictions. Lawyers for the Trump administration filed an emergency application to the nation’s highest court to allow…
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    Trump Asks Supreme Court to Fast-Track Fight Over Mail-In Ballot Order
    Solicitor General John Sauer asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to expedite review of a court order blocking President Donald Trump’s mail-in ballot policy. In June, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of Massachusetts, a Barack Obama appointee, blocked Trump’s mail ballot order for 23 states challenging the policy. The president’s order prevents the U.S. Postal Service…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Mail-in Ballot Restrictions
    President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow implementation nationwide of his executive order aimed at tightening rules for mail-in voting ahead of the November midterm elections that will decide ‌control of Congress. In a filing, the Justice Department requested that the justices put on hold a judge’s ruling preventing the…
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    Trump Administration USPS Wins Key Court Fight Over Mail-In Ballot Oversight
    The Trump administration scored a partial court victory on election integrity in a case involving mail-in ballots and voter rolls. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday paused a lower court ruling against a U.S. Postal Service rule that conditioned delivery of mail-in ballots on…
    Fred Lucas
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    Early Voting Begins for the Late David Scott’s Congressional Post
    THE CENTER SQUARE— Early voting began Monday in Georgia’s 13th Congressional District to determine who will fill the last months of the late U.S. Rep. David Scott’s term.  Four Democrats and two Republicans are on the ticket, with the winner to be decided on July 28, according to the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office.  Among the…
    Kim Jarrett
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  • Clinton-Appointed Judge Blocks US Postal Service’s Proposed Restrictions on Mail-In Voting
    REUTERS—A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the U.S. Postal Service’s proposed restrictions on mail-in voting, finding that they violated a settlement with a leading civil rights group that required expedited mail-in ballot handling. The decision by Washington-based U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan marked the second defeat in the courts in as many weeks for U.S….
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    Gov. DeWine Vetoed Voter ID for Mail-In Ballots. What’s Next?
    On Wednesday night, Gov. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, vetoed House Bill 472, which in its final form included provisions requiring a photo ID for mail-in ballots. The fight for voter integrity does not appear to be over in the Buckeye State, however. In vetoing the bill, DeWine released a statement noting that the bill “would not…
    Rebecca Downs
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    US Judge Blocks Trump’s Mail-In Voting Executive Order
    BOSTON, June 25 (Reuters)—A federal judge in Boston on Thursday blocked implementation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to tighten rules ‌for mail-in voting, preventing it from taking effect ahead of November elections that will decide control of Congress. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani sided with a coalition of Democrat-led states that argued…
    Nate Raymond | David Shepardson
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