Patrick Marley

• Democracy in America

Antrim County’s clerk planned to retire this year. Now she is now running a write-in campaign against a candidate who has promised to shake up elections.

• Post Reports

What Michael B. Moore’s congressional race tells us about gerrymandering, and how a Supreme Court decision affects the future of American democracy.

• Democracy in America

Kamala Harris wants to expand early voting, make it easier to register to vote, end partisan gerrymandering and require the disclosure of more political donors.

• National Security

Stefanie Lambert was barred from representing Patrick Byrne, a prominent funder of adherents of election misinformation, in a $1.6 billion lawsuit.

• Democracy in America

Tina Peters, a former county clerk, was accused of helping copy election information after Trump lost the 2020 presidential election.

• Democracy in America

Divisive, Trump-style politics came to Ottawa County. Then moderate Republicans and some Democrats mobilized and fought back.

• Elections

For decades, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit held that the Voting Rights Act allows voting districts that give Black and Hispanic voters the ability to elect candidates of their choice when they have common interests and can form coalitions.

• Democracy in America

Mark Zuckerberg is no longer helping to cover the cost of running elections, and grants to local governments will be far smaller this year.

• Democracy in America

Patrick Byrne, former CEO of Overstock, said officials would face “a piano wire and a blowtorch” if a case against a former Colorado elections official continues.