The Department of Justice is considering whether it can charge local or state election officials who don’t adhere to Trump administration standards on voting security. The Trump administration is reportedly driving the effort forward based on its skepticism about the security of the nation’s elections.

Such a path could drastically raise the stakes for federal investigations of state or county officials, bringing the department and the threat of criminalization into the election system.

That's false. There is nothing in the legislation that would allow Trump, or any future president, to stop an election from going forward.

It’s meant to offer clarity on things like who can observe elections, says what election observers can do, and creates a more streamlined set of instructions for election observers

Voting patterns among many demographic groups in 2024 were similar to those in 2020 and 2016, but Trump made gains among several key groups, a Pew Research Center analysis shows.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission on Monday published a new administrative rule guiding the conduct of election observers.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban in a 4-3 ruling, saying that it was superseded by a more recent state law criminalizing abortions only in cases when a fetus is viable outside the womb.

The last two elections for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which determined its ideological makeup, were the most expensive state court races in U.S. history.

Abortion providers in the state resumed the procedure in 2023 after a judge ruled that a more recent law superseded the 176-year-old ban.