Our Constitution grants states control over the times, manner and places of elections—except where Congress makes its own federal elections rules. Who plays no role: the president.

A county in PA threw out some provisional ballots given to voters who forgot to sign the secrecy envelope on their mail-in ballots.
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Say you emigrate to the US and build a new life. Would you then risk it to vote for a candidate who had no obligation to represent you?

Non-citizen voting is beyond rare, and not just because citizenship status gets checked when you register to vote.

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The North Carolina constitution grants the governor the right to appoint members to its election board. Its General Assembly tried to decide that IT should be in charge of these appointments. Luckily, Wake County Superior Court disagreed.

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VA's the only state that permanently bans all people with felony convictions from voting. But a creative lawsuit, based on the law that readmitted VA to the Union after the Civil War, is challenging that ban! Read Matt Ford in the New Republic:

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Last year, Colorado became the 1st state to ensure at least six hours of in-person voting for eligible citizens held at local jails and detention centers!

Incarceration doesn't strip citizenship. It shouldn't block voting.

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Life finds a way—this tree pushed through pavement and even wrapped itself around a stop sign in L.A. #Nature doesn’t ask for permission.

[Marika Sparrow]