Although mail voting has become more common since the pandemic, some recent incidents have shaken the confidence of some voters in the system. Once again this week, the ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington were set ablazewhile in Miamia stash of sealed ballots fell from an election worker’s truck, fueling voter concern.

If you’ve already voted by mail, or plan to do so in the coming days, but are concerned about it reaching its final destination, your state may allow you to track the status of your vote online. Beyond reducing call volume to local election offices, these tracking systems can restore confidence in the voting process, said Amber McReynolds, a national elections expert.

Read here to learn how to track your ballot.

Nicole Wallace, on her MSNBC show “Deadline: White House”, made a public advocacy Friday evening to his former boss, former president George W. Bushto denounce former President Donald Trump before Election Day.

Wallace, who was White House communications director during the Bush administration, said she understands better than anyone that after his presidency, he prefers to express himself through his actions, his work with veterans and his presidential library.

But after Trump’s insults and the use of violent language about former Rep. Liz Cheneyhis vice president’s daughter, Wallace said she contacted his office to see if “anything would change his mind about remaining silent before the election.”

An adviser told him that Bush didn’t want to interfere in the election.

After airing some of Bush’s words about what Americans are doing to defend freedom in the face of threats, Wallace said: “We have a right to hope that those who have defended freedom and celebrated those who those protected will have one last chance. -a tiny change of heart in the final hours of this campaign.”

Texas’ top election official, Secretary of State Jane Nelson said the state would not allow federal observers into Texas polling places.

“Texans can have confidence in the strong actions the state is taking to ensure election integrity,” Nelson said in a statement. job on X, where she also posted her letter to the Department of Justice.

The Department of Justice enforces federal voting rights laws that protect the rights of all eligible citizens to access the ballot. The department regularly deploys its staff to monitor compliance with federal civil rights laws in U.S. elections.

The Department of Justice, as part of its enforcement of federal voting rights laws, regularly sends observers to ensure voting rights are respected. He announced Friday his intention to send observers to 86 jurisdictions in 27 states, including eight in Texas.

The United States Supreme Court on Friday refused to freeze a decision from Pennsylvania’s highest court that required election officials to count provisional ballots cast by people whose absentee ballots were invalid because they lacked required secrecy envelopes.

The judges’ order means election officials in this key battleground state must count provisional ballots submitted on Election Day by voters who returned defective ballots, either because they did not include no secrecy envelopes, either because they had not signed or dated the outer envelope.

Donald Trump held his final Wisconsin rally of the 2024 campaign Friday evening, returning to Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, site of the Republican convention, to deliver his closing message to the Badger State. In 2016, he narrowly won Wisconsin, but he lost the state’s 10 electoral votes to Joe Biden in 2020.

The rally was marred by microphone problems. People in the upper sections, at the back of the arena, couldn’t hear Trump, and he expressed frustration with the technical problems.

“I’m seething. I’m messing around with a stupid mic,” Trump said.

He then made rude gestures towards the microphone stand, complaining that it was too low. He held the microphone for the rest of the rally but repeatedly complained about its cumbersomeness. He also threatened not to pay the contractor.

“Do you want to see me knock people out backstage?” » asked Trump. “I’m not asking for much. The only thing I’m asking for is a good microphone. And this is the second time today that this has happened.”

He vaguely blamed campaign manager Susie Wiles for the microphone problem.

By Olivia Rinaldi and Katrina Kaufman

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris campaigned in the Milwaukee area Friday evening, ahead of the final weekend of the 2024 campaign. Harris did not deviate much from her standard speech in West Allis, Michigan, a suburb of Milwaukee. She urged people who have not yet voted to vote.

“No judgment, no judgment at all — but go ahead,” Harris said, before reviewing the list of her campaign promises and the litany of grievances against Trump.

Cardi B, who spoke shortly before Harris, told the crowd she had no plans to vote this year, but “Kamala Harris changed her mind.”

She called Trump a “bully” and said: “I can’t stand a bully, but just like Kamala, I stand up to him.” Cardi B has repeatedly said she was nervous about speaking at the rally. Women, she says, have to work 10 times harder than men “and yet people question us.”