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Threat Tracker

Actions that could interfere with counting or certifying the vote, each with its sources. Tracked through January 6, 2027.

What the levels mean

Level 1
Conditions forming. Claims, legal moves, or orders that could be used to justify interfering. Nothing has been stopped yet.
Level 2
Interference underway, process holding. It has happened in one or a few places (a seizure, a refusal to certify, a court order), but voting, counting, or certification can still go ahead on schedule.
Level 3
Process blocked. Widespread or disruptive enough that voting, counting, or certification can’t go ahead on schedule, or eligible voters are kept from voting.

7 items

DateTypeJurisdictionSummaryLevel
CertificationMultiple statesVoting rights groups warn local officials may refuse to certify results to delay the conclusion of the November election. Protect Democracy says officials are likely to attempt refusal where they dislike the outcome. Current examples: Vickie Marquardt in Otero County, New Mexico, who refused in 2022 and will not rule out doing it again this fall, and Shasta County, California registrar Clint Curtis, who tried to stall the county declaration of the June primary before admitting his suspicions gave him no legal basis. Certification is a mandatory duty courts can compel. Open Source: Democracy Docket: how rogue counties could stall results and 2 moreLevel 1
FederalU.S. Department of JusticeSince May 2025 the Justice Department has demanded full, unredacted voter rolls, including driver license and partial Social Security numbers, from at least 44 states and DC. It has sued 24 states and DC for refusing, plus Fulton County, Georgia for 2020 election records. DOJ cites the Civil Rights Act of 1960, which requires it to state the basis and purpose of a request. Dismissing the California case, the court said DOJ representations elsewhere painted a starkly different picture from its stated purpose. Open Source: Brennan Center: DOJ voter data request tracker and 3 moreLevel 1
FederalU.S. Department of JusticeFederal election monitoring is long standing, run under both parties, and exists to enforce federal voting law. What we track here is scale and direction. By its last primary stop on September 9, DOJ said it had monitored polling sites in eleven states and hundreds of locations this primary season, against nine states in the 2022 midterms. DOJ says it will continue through the general but has not named November 3 jurisdictions. Context: the same division is suing 24 states over voter rolls, and CBS reported in March that the White House weighed defunding the civil rights observer program.

Latest: Sep 9, 2026: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, called the last stop of primary monitoring. DOJ reports eleven states and hundreds of locations.

Open Source: DOJ Voting Section: election monitoring releases and 3 more		Level 1
StateTarrant CountyCounty commissioners voted along party lines to cut polling locations for the November election, approving 224 Election Day sites and 47 early voting sites, down from 316 and 50 in the 2022 midterms. That is 92 fewer Election Day locations in the third most populous county in Texas. The vote followed an eight hour meeting with testimony from more than 100 speakers, most opposed, and a rally by 30 civic groups outside the courthouse. A year earlier the county cut nearly half its early voting locations ahead of the 2025 election. Open Source: Fort Worth Report: commissioners approve site cuts and 1 moreLevel 2
StateNorth Carolina State Board of ElectionsThe Republican majority on the state board voted along party lines to approve early voting plans eliminating Sunday voting in 10 counties that offered it in the last midterm. Across 13 counties where local boards deadlocked, the board dropped 16 Sunday early voting days, replacing some with longer Saturday hours. Lenoir County also lost Sunday voting. Board Democrats said Sunday hours serve shift workers, long commuters, and caregivers, and state data shows Sunday voting is disproportionately used by Black voters. Open Source: NC Newsline: board rejects most Sunday early voting hours and 2 moreLevel 2
StateGuilford CountyThe state board approved an early voting plan for Guilford County with no sites at UNC Greensboro or North Carolina A and T State University, despite repeated requests from students at both schools to keep campus sites used in 2024. The county board declined to include them in July, and because that vote was not unanimous the plan went to the state board. Guilford had 28 early voting sites in 2024 and 15 in 2022. The approved plan has 17. Open Source: WRAL: state board approves Guilford plan and 1 moreLevel 2
StateNorth Carolina State Board of ElectionsThe state board voted 3 to 2 along party lines to eliminate early voting sites on four college campuses for the 2026 primaries: Western Carolina University, UNC Greensboro, Elon University, and North Carolina A and T State University. Board members cited proximity, logistics, and parking. The plans reached the state board from a dozen counties whose local boards could not agree. Students rallied against the decisions. For the November general election the state board later restored the Western Carolina site, while Guilford County campus sites stayed off the plan. Open Source: BPR: state board closes WCU early voting site and 3 moreLevel 2