President Trump on Monday revoked an executive order by former President Joe Biden that calls for federal agencies to promote voter registration. The move comes after Republican officials ramped up efforts to turn the 2021 order into a partisan flash point ahead of the 2024 election. GOP officials claimed — with no substantial evidence — that through this order, the Biden administration overstepped its authority and tried to generate more Democratic voters. Federal laws, however, ban federal employees from favoring one political party over another when promoting voter registration.

A nonprofit voter registration organization founded by two-time Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has agreed to pay the largest fine ever assessed by the Georgia Ethics Commission. The commission's board voted Wednesday to approve a consent order calling for New Georgia Project and a separate fundraising arm to pay $300,000 for failing to disclose $4.2 million in contributions and $3.2 million in spending during the 2018 election cycle on behalf of Abrams' unsuccessful bid for governor.

The good news is that automatic voter registration — the process by which adult citizens are registered to vote when they interact with other state services like the DMV — is coming to New York. The bad news is that it was supposed to have come two years ago, were it not for what are frankly unsurprising delays from the rarely-speedy Board of Elections. We are now looking at an implementation in the second quarter of the new year, though it will vary based on each local agency implementing its...

The NAACP is urging the DOJ to investigate Georgia’s online voter registration removal practice after the state launched a website that allows individuals to cancel someone else’s voter registration without their knowledge. On July 29, Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger rolled out the Voter Registration Cancellation Portal, which allows people to cancel voter registrations when someone moves out of state or dies without notifying anyone. The launch of the site was a massive problem as a glitch in the rollout allowed people to access a voter’s date of birth,...

Constituents across California have been receiving text messages asking them to check their registration and providing links. "Our office would like the public to know that the Clerk-Recorder-Elections Office is not reaching out to constituents via text to update voter registrations," the office said in a news release.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – Data obtained by 8News shows that voter registration in Virginia is on the rise after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race for President and Vice President Kamala Harris announced her plans to seek the Democratic nomination for president. “Particularly Democrats are excited that there is a new face to the party, a new candidate that doesn’t have the age baggage that Joe Biden had,” 8News Political Analyst, Rich Meagher explained. Data from the Virginia Department of Elections shows that on Monday and Tuesday (7/22...

A key part of the election season lead-up has disappeared this summer across Florida, with voter registration by grassroots groups all but halted because of a new state law many say targets minorities and younger voters. The number of voters registered by so-called third-party organizations is down dramatically. Just over 7,000 voters have been enrolled through the end of June by these groups, compared with almost 60,000 during the 2020 presidential election year, state records show. The League of Women Voters of Florida, the NAACP, and dozens of community- and...