President Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday.

Mamdani’s election can indeed be said to have been skillfully “engineered,” and progressives elsewhere are taking note.

Election Day is Nov. 4, and Texans are going to be voting on 17 constitutional amendments that cover property taxes, disciplining judges and more. Early voting continues through Oct. 31. Alicia Pierce, communications director for the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, joined the Standard to discuss the rights voters have at the polls.

The Republican Party, and President Donald Trump, want to prevent states from counting mailed ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but received later.

The new rules limit how registrations can be challenged and lengthen the number of years before an inactive registration can be removed from the voter rolls.

New York election law says each polling place is required to have at least one police or peace officer from the time it opens until it closes for the day. Involving police in the voting process in the city goes back more than a century, several election law experts told Gothamist.