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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Four Republican-led states agreed to settle lawsuits against the federal government over access to voters’ citizenship data, ending a dispute that began with the Biden administration in advance of the 2024 presidential election. Officials in Florida, Indiana, Iowa and Ohio entered the settlement with the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem roughly a year after the states individually sued the agency under President Joe Biden. They had alleged the previous administration was withholding information about citizenship status that they needed to determine whether thousands of registered voters were actually eligible to cast a ballot. Hannah Fingerhut, Associated Press.
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Making vote-by-mail work
How election offices are modernizing their back offices
By: Steve Lund, technical product manager
U.S. Digital Response
Election officials managing vote-by-mail operations are stretched thin. Higher volumes, tighter timelines, increased public scrutiny, and most jurisdictions are managing it all with paper-based systems built for a different era. Yet modernizing these critical operations doesn’t require overhauling entire infrastructure. Across the country, election offices are utilizing strategic, data-driven improvements to their vote-by-mail workflows that can meaningfully improve voter access, strengthen security, and reduce staff burden.
U.S. Digital Response (USDR), a nonpartisan nonprofit focused on modernizing government digital services, has worked with election offices in Washington, Oregon, and beyond to identify and implement these kinds of improvements. The work demonstrates what’s possible when election officials partner with technical experts who understand both the technology landscape and the unique constraints of running elections
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