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Voter Registration

Voter registration process and requirements.

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Jan 24, 2026
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198 democrats voted aginst voter id

Yes — in the House vote on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, the final tally was 221–198 and voted against the measure, as shown in the official roll call and contemporary reporting...

Jan 24, 2026
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SAVE act

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act would amend the to require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship for and impose penalties and private enforcement mechanisms for noncompliance . Sup...

Jan 26, 2026
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How do voter turnout rates by age alter the political influence of Millennials versus Baby Boomers?

with age, giving outsized political clout relative to when older cohorts vote at higher rates; conversely, when Millennials and younger cohorts match Boomers’ turnout — as they sometimes have at compa...

Jan 25, 2026

How can voter turnout be improved for future elections?

requires a pragmatic portfolio: , widen convenient voting options, invest in nonpartisan mobilization, and rebuild —each step delivers incremental gains rather than a single silver‑bullet solution . E...

Jan 13, 2026

Can Washington DC residents vote in primaries and how do they participate?

Washington, D.C. residents can and do vote in primary elections, but how they participate depends on party registration status, the method of voting (mail, early in‑person, or Election Day), and a maj...

Jan 23, 2026

How many registered voters were there in California and how many ballots were cast in the 2024 presidential election?

Multiple analyses and state reporting agree that ballots cast in ’s were substantially lower than in : analysts estimate “a little over 16 million” Californians voted (PPIC) and other research groups ...

Jan 13, 2026

has Trump attempted changes that would violate the constitution

The record assembled by courts, legal groups and congressional Democrats shows repeated presidential actions that courts and scholars have found or argued to be unconstitutional—or that prompted legal...

Jan 9, 2026

How do county elections officials verify unique identifiers when a registrant provides no ID or SSN?

When a registrant provides no photo ID or Social Security number, county election officials rely on a patchwork of statutory backups — assigned unique voter identifiers, database matching and validati...

Feb 6, 2026

How would the SAVE Act change state voter registration systems and what would implementation costs be for local election offices?

The would impose federal proof-of-citizenship requirements on federal , mandate states to identify and remove noncitizens from rolls, and tie state lists to federal immigration/citizenship data source...

Feb 5, 2026

How many non citizens voted in the last election

There is no authoritative national tally showing “how many ” in the 2024 presidential election; available federal turnout data count citizens who voted (154 million voters) and exclude non‑citizens fr...

Feb 4, 2026

How did state-level documentary proof-of-citizenship laws in Arizona and Kansas affect voter registration rolls?

State-level documentary proof-of-citizenship () laws in and produced large, measurable disruptions to rolls: Kansas suspended or blocked tens of thousands of registrations while Arizona’s bifurcated s...

Feb 4, 2026

What evidence exists of noncitizen voting in federal elections, and how frequent are documented cases?

Available evidence shows isolated, documented instances of in federal elections but no proof of a widespread, coordinated phenomenon; federal and state audits find such cases are vanishingly rare rela...

Feb 3, 2026

Which states had the highest number of voter fraud prosecutions in the 2024 election?

Data compiled by researchers and reporting indicate that were scarce and geographically scattered rather than concentrated in a few large clusters; identified roughly 20 cases brought in 2024 (not all...

Feb 3, 2026

How do election audits and post-election investigations detect improper registrations or ballots?

and routine post‑election procedures detect improper registrations and ballots by combining statistical sampling of paper ballots with process checks of voter rolls and chain‑of‑custody records, and b...

Feb 1, 2026

133 million registered voters cast 159 million votes

The statement " cast 159 million votes" does not align with official post‑election data: federal surveys and election administrators put registered voters at roughly 170–174 million and ballots cast a...

Jan 30, 2026

What non-legal tactics have administrations used to influence election administration and how have states resisted them?

Administrations have used a suite of non-legal levers — coercive requests for sensitive state voter data, public threats and subpoenas, deployments of federal personnel near election operations, press...

Jan 26, 2026

What was the total number of voting age voters in massachusetts in the 2024 election?

The available reporting in this packet does not contain a single, explicit figure for “the total number of voting‑age voters in in the 2024 election”; instead, authoritative datasets that would contai...

Jan 19, 2026

How do I find my Texas State Representative using my address?

Finding a Texas State Representative from a street address is a straightforward process using official mapping and lookup tools: the Texas Legislature’s “Who Represents Me?” search on Texas Legislatur...

Jan 12, 2026

What role have 'new entrant' Republican voters (those who voted Democratic before 2020) played in Republican gains identified by recent surveys?

Recent surveys and registration analyses indicate that voters who switched their party registration from Democratic to Republican since 2020—what this piece calls "new entrant" Republicans—have helped...