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The scheduling of federal elections in the United States is governed by the Constitution and statutes.
The prospect that the United States will simply have "no midterm elections" in 2026 is effectively vanishingly small: federal law provides no mechanism for a president to cancel or postpone congressio...
Federal election dates for President and Congress are fixed by federal statute—most notably the 1845 Presidential Election Day Act and later codifications in Title 2 and Title 3 of the U.S. Code—so on...
Congressional and presidential Election Day is a creature of federal statute: changing it requires Congress to pass a new law that alters the existing statutory dates controlling congressional electio...
-election-scheduling">Federal law requires election officers to retain and preserve "all records and papers" relating to acts requisite to voting for 22 months after any election in which federal offi...
in is illegal and documented to occur, but the best available reporting shows it is extremely rare in detectable numbers; claims that it is rampant are contradicted by multiple audits and expert analy...
States and courts justified election-timing and procedural changes in 2020 by pointing to existing state emergency powers, specific state statutes and regulations governing election administration, an...
The Constitution does not expressly give any single federal official the power to , and the primary legal architecture assigns administration of federal elections to the states under the while reservi...
Yes — American-Israeli dual citizens retain the right to vote in U.S. federal elections even while living in Israel; U.S. law grants voting rights on the basis of citizenship rather than physical resi...