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New from me for Votebeat: Arabic is the third-most common language spoken in Michigan. But because it's not included in a tiny federal law, voters who speak it rarely get the services that could help them vote.

This isn’t to praise or lambast ranked-choice voting. It’s just that after years of covering elections and voting, I’ve seen how educating voters on even minor changes can be a big challenge.

Beset by internal turmoil, financial woes and a record campaign finance fine, a Stacey Abrams-founded organization that helped reshape Georgia politics is now fighting for survival. #gapol ajc.com/politics/2025/…

This opens a huge loophole for even more money in politics- and gives donors tax breaks for supporting political candidates: I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/… via @NYTimes

Come work with me! Votebeat is hiring a managing editor. Open for questions if you have any about the newsroom or Civic News Company overall. workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default…

Under Trump, the The FEC has lost a quorum on three different occasions — in 2019, 2020, and this year — totaling about 17 months. Dave Levinthal investigates the current status of the quorum-less FEC for NOTUS notus.org/policy/fec-quo…

There's still confusion as voters in Maricopa County continue to check their mail and find two different letters about a problem with their voter registration. Please pass around: People getting these letters DO need to take action before voting. Full story in next tweet 🧵.

Election news: A voting system from Hart InterCivic is the first to obtain certification under VVSG 2.0, the most updated standards, per Election Asst. Comm.'s website. Others are in the testing process. More on the EAC's guidelines from me in this from June 30: votebeat.org/2025/06/30/tru…

In a letter to the PA Department of State, obtained by Votebeat, the DOJ is asking the state to provide details on its voter roll maintenance and security activities. The letter, which the DOJ says is part of a nationwide effort, is the latest in a series of requests DOJ has sent

New: Following “concerns from DOJ” Abbott calls on Texas lawmakers to redraw congressional maps in special session. We’re trying to start to unpack those concerns here - votebeat.org/texas/2025/07/…

Wolf just doxxed Superman

Some more relevant info from Natalia Contreras here: votebeat.org/texas/2025/07/…

The MI Department of State put out a report crediting their work for the fact that voter turnout was up last year, one of only a few states to pull that off between 2020 — which had generationally high turnout — and 2024. But pinpointing a specific cause is not that simple.

Breaking: Cochise County is asking its insurer to cover $300K in legal bills for the indicted supervisor who faces two felonies after voting to delay the certification of the '22 midterm election results. Full story in next tweet in🧵.

Cochise County wants the counties' insurance pool to cover $300,000 in legal bills for a county supervisor charged with trying to delay certification of the 2022 midterm election results. FULL STORY: votebeat.org/arizona/2025/0…

JUST IN: Latest in Maricopa County elections fight. In response to lawsuit from Recorder Heap, supervisors file a counterclaim asking court to declare that supervisors have discretion to delegate election tasks, and supervisors have custody of IT resources/systems/personnel...

New from me: After two big Republican tax laws, the top capital-gains rate remains exactly where it was on Jan. 1, 2013. But lawmakers have been thinning out the cap gains base, including in the big beautiful bill. Link below

Key quote: "The parties have provided more evidence of discriminatory intent than we have space, or need, to address here." Texas v. U.S., 887 F.Supp.2d 133, 161, n. 32 (D.D.C. 2012). #txlege