Absentee Ballot Cure: How States Fix a Defective Mail Ballot
A mismatched signature or a missing field does not have to kill a mail ballot, but the fix runs on state deadlines that vary from two days to a week after the election.
Elections
Mechanics of federal government: appropriations, nominations, ethics rules, administrative procedure, shutdown deadlines and each branch's oversight tools.
Voter ID Laws by State: Four Categories and What Counts
State photo-ID rules split into strict and non-strict versions, and the documents each state accepts differ more than the labels suggest.
The Electoral Count Reform Act: What Congress Changed in 2022
The law rewrote the rules for counting electoral votes after January 6, 2021, narrowing the vice president's role and raising the bar for objections.