If you're wondering whether midterm general elections  affect the president… yes, they definitely do. Here’s how!

First, let’s be clear on definitions: 
  • A “midterm” election is defined as an election that takes place halfway through the 4-year Presidential term.
  • Expressed in another way: the midterm elections are held in the “middle of the 4-year term”, that is two years after the 4-year Presidential term has begun.
The Board of U.S. Vote Foundation issues this urgent and unequivocal statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Watson v. RNC. We urge the Supreme Court, along with every state election official, legislator, and stakeholder, to remember that voting options like mail-in and absentee ballots exist because people’s lives do not pause on Election Day. People work, serve, travel, seek medical care, and fulfill duties to their families and communities. Voting must travel with them. We caution against attempts to frame this case as simply a matter of administrative burden, postal timing, or the number of voters affected. These are distractions. The purpose of this effort is clear: it is to disenfranchise American citizens.
U.S. Vote Foundation and its Overseas Vote initiative respectfully submit this comment in strong opposition to the petition filed by the America First Legal Foundation requesting that the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration. The petition now before the EAC seeks to impose new documentary proof-of-citizenship requirements on voter registration. This proposal is unnecessary, unsupported by evidence, and would create serious new risks and barriers for UOCAVA voters. Requiring voters to transmit copies of citizenship documents such as passports introduces major security and logistical problems. There is no secure, standardized, or federally certified system for U.S. voters to upload or transmit these sensitive identification documents, nor for election officials to verify them safely.

Who Gets Your Vote and What Do They Do?

Election Season: What’s at Stake?

As the upcoming election approaches, voters across the country are preparing to cast their ballots for a variety of elected officials. While presidential races often attract the most attention, other positions—like state and municipal level officials—hold critical roles in shaping our government and everyday lives.

“Early voting” is a form of voting in which all eligible voters of a state have the chance to cast ballots before Election Day without needing an excuse or a ballot application. Usually this is over the course of several days or weeks, but it can vary by state.

Civics Crash Course Lesson 7

While advocating for the ratification of the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton asserted that the judiciary was “beyond comparison the weakest” as measured against the executive and legislative branches. After the Constitution was adopted, many of the leading statesmen of that era considered it more prestigious to serve in state legislatures rather than on the Supreme Court. How, then, did the Supreme Court achieve the clout and influence it has today?

Response to Threatened Federal Executive Order to Curtail Voting by Mail U.S. Vote Foundation and our Overseas Vote and US.VOTE initiatives strongly condemn the recent presidential threats to restrict or eliminate voting by mail through executive order. Such an action would be unconstitutional, unprecedented, and an attack on the rights of millions of American voters, including our military and overseas citizens. Voting by mail is a well-established, secure, and reliable method of casting a ballot. It is used successfully in every state and territory of the United States, with some states conducting their elections entirely by mail.
PROVE Act would suppress the votes of U.S. citizens abroad. A coalition of leading organizations representing Americans living overseas — U.S. Vote Foundation and its Overseas Vote initiative, the Association of Americans Resident Overseas, and American Citizens Abroad — today issued a strong joint statement opposing the Proving Residency for Overseas Voter Eligibility Act, H.R. 4851 (“PROVE Act”). If enacted, the PROVE Act would impose an arbitrary proof of “current” U.S. residence requirement on non-military overseas voters or, alternatively, an arbitrary Washington D.C. residency, disenfranchising the vast majority of U.S. citizens abroad.
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