Following the 2024 United States presidential election, Republican Party officials took a variety of actions at the state and national level that target election infrastructure, including voting rights and election security.
Second Trump administration
Congress Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act
On January 3, 2025, Republican representative Chip Roy reintroduced the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act), which proposes to amend the National Voter Registration Act such that anyone who applies to register to vote in federal elections (or who updates their existing voter registration) must submit proof of citizenship. This proposal has been criticized by voting rights activists for potentially disenfranchising voters, such as approximately 69 million married women, any eligible voter who changes their name (such as for gender identity transition), and approximately 10% of voters who do not have immediate, if any, access to documents to prove their citizenship such as naturalized citizens, Native Americans and those with low income. The legislation had passed the United States House of Representatives on April 9, 220-208.
Proving Residency for Overseas Voter Eligibility Act
In August 2025, Representative Abe Hamadeh and four other Republicans proposed the Proving Residency for Overseas Voter Eligibility Act (PROVE Act), which would mandate overseas U.S. voters or their spouse, parent or guardian to have a "current residence" in the state in which they register. Otherwise, they would register in Washington, D.C. for voting in federal elections.
State and local government actions
Alabama In December 2023, the NAACP, Greater Birmingham Ministries, and Black voters in Montgomery, Alabama filed a lawsuit against Republican Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, arguing that five Alabama State Senate districts in Montgomery and Huntsville, Alabama unfairly split the Black voting population in those regions. The ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center also joined the lawsuit. In August 2025, federal judge Anna M. Manasco ruled that Alabama could not use the current map could not be used for a state Senate election, stating that the Montgomery districts violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, but that the Huntsville districts did not. Allen planned to file an appeal and to ask for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama to hold further judgment until Louisiana v. Callais was decided by the Supreme Court.
Alaska In April 2025, 11 American Samoans in Whittier, Alaska were charged by the state of Alaska with lying about U.S. citizenship and voter fraud. These charges were brought by Treg Taylor, the then-Republican Attorney General of Alaska. American Samoans do not have automatic U.S. citizenship and are instead U.S. nationals, so they do not have the right to vote in most elections or hold public office. One of the people charged said that she was told by election workers to check a box that she was a citizen, as there was no identification system for U.S. nationals. A defendant attorney says that many of those charged are citizens. Due to their status as U.S. nationals and aspects of Alaska state law, the eligibility of American Samoans to vote has been described as "confusing" and "contradictory".
California In April 2025, Clint Curtis was appointed as the county clerk and registrar of voters in Shasta County, California. Curtis is connected to Mike Lindell, Steve Bannon, and Michael Flynn; spread false claims of fraud during the 2020 election, and is registered as a Republican. The next month, Curtis fired the assistant county registrar of voters, a decision that was criticized across the political spectrum due to her extensive election experience.
Curtis initially planned to relocate the county election services to an unused retail building and add dozens of cameras to livestream ballot counting, but the Shasta County Board of Supervisors did not vote on his plan, rejecting it in effect. The California Secretary of State office warned that recording the ballot process risked voter privacy and election security.
Curtis supported voter identification requirements; promoted a secession movement; hired secessionists and members of the election denial movement; reduced the number of ballot drop boxes; supported replacing voting machines with paper ballots and universal hand counts, which voting activists criticized as vulnerable to errors; falsely accused the previous assistant registrar of election fraud; and blocked a local news outlet.
Georgia In September 2025, the Georgia Republican Party submitted a series of proposals to an election study committee, led by Republicans, in the Georgia state legislature. These proposals included ending early voting, absentee ballots, and automatic voter registration.
Voter roll purges In July 2025, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced plans to send cancellation notices to 477,883 registered voters who did not vote in 2022 or 2024. He later announced that his office would warn 218,951 registered voters who have not voted since 2019. He sent a letter to Congress urging them to update the National Voter Registration Act based on Georgia's election maintenance policies. He also lobbied for voter ID and forbidding ballot harvesting. Fair Fight Action accused Raffensperger's policies of being "voter suppression by administrative process" and launched a tool to help voters lookup if they are on the list to be purged.
Fulton County In May 2025, the Democratic majority of the Fulton County, Georgia Board of Commissioners voted against approving Julie Adams and Jason Frazier, who were nominated by the Fulton County Republican Party, disqualifying them due to their past actions. Adams refused to certify the 2024 primary elections and Frazier challenged thousands of voters in the county. The county GOP party sued to pressure the board to accept their nominees. The judge in the case supported the Republican Party's stance and ordered the board to appoint the two. When the board did not, the judge held the board in contempt and ordered them to pay a fine of $10,000 per day to the state, as well as the county GOP's legal fees, until they complied. This fine was put on hold while the board appealed.
Illinois In 2022, Mike Bost and two federal electors filed a lawsuit against the Illinois State Board of Elections, alleging that a state law, which allowed for the counting of mail-in ballots up to 14 days after an election, had violated federal law. Judicial Watch represented Bost in the case. In June 2025, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case during their next term starting in October 2025.
Louisiana In May 2025, Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry announced that the state would use a voter maintenance database from DOGE, which also included immigration status and death records information.
Maine During the 2025 Maine referendums, the Question 1 proposal, if implemented, would have mandated voter identification and significantly reduced absentee voting and ballot drop boxes. The initiative was supported by Dinner Table PAC, which promoted it by raising over $600,000, which was primarily donated by the Republican State Leadership Committee.
Missouri In 2025, the Missouri General Assembly used the previous question procedure to overturn two citizen initiatives that were passed during the 2024 election: one regarding mandatory paid sick leave and the other on abortion access. Republican members of the Freedom Caucus also expressed interest in reforming the citizen's initiative process, stating that they wanted to increase the difficulty of amending the Missouri state constitution.
In October 2025, after about 100,000 signatures were gathered for a referendum to oppose redistricting in Missouri, Republican Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins announced that signatures gathered before he approved the referendum were invalid, and that attempting to count them would be illegal. Republican Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway also submitted a lawsuit in federal court claiming that a referendum should not apply to Missouri's redistricting proposal. St. Louis Public Radio noted that Hanaway's lawsuit could affect similar referendums in Utah and California.
New York In the aftermath of the Republican primary in District 47 during the 2025 New York City Council election, at least seven potentially fraudulent ballots were found, three from dead voters and four who never previously voted in local primary elections. An additional 22 uncounted ballots were found from one district that, according to a lawyer for candidate Richie Barsamian, were all for Barsamian, the chairman of the Kings County GOP. The number of ballots that were possibly fraudulent was reportedly larger than the margin of victory.
In April 2025, Petros Krommidas, a Democratic candidate for the Nassau County Legislature in the 2025 Nassau County, New York legislature elections, disappeared at sea and is presumed dead by family, friends and colleagues. Nassau County Democrats attempted to replace him with a different candidate. In response, two Republican voters filed a lawsuit to prevent Krommidas from being replaced, claiming that he was only missing and not legally dead. A state judge sided with the plaintiffs and ordered for local election officials to keep Krommidas' name on the ballot. Democratic officials described these efforts as "cruel" and "heartless".
North Carolina In April 2025, the North Carolina Court of Appeals issued an anonymous ruling that Republican North Carolina State Auditor Dave Boliek was allowed to control the North Carolina State Board of Elections, removing power from the Democratic governor Josh Stein. This decision – which had only two sentences and did not include an explanation – would result in both the state and county boards of elections having a Republican majority. Stein speculated that this ruling was part of an attempt to overturn the 2024 North Carolina Supreme Court election. This change was made possible by the state Republican Party organizing a legislative session shortly after the 2024 election with the stated purpose of passing a bill for hurricane relief. Boliek would then appoint to the board the former president of the Civitas Institute, Francis De Luca, and former Republican state Senator Bob Rucho. In May 2025, the board then fired the executive director and replaced her with Sam Hayes, the general counsel to the Republican speaker of the North Carolina House, Destin Hall. Boliek also replaced the county election boards with 3-2 Democratic majorities with 3-2 Republican majorities.
In September 2025, Dallas Woodhouse, the former executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party, was appointed by Boliek to oversee all North Carolina county election boards. The appointment was announced in private and the role, election oversight liaison, was just established. In 2016, Woodhouse told members of county election boards to "make party line changes to early voting", including reducing hours at polling locations and removing polling locations at colleges. Woodhouse previously worked for American Majority, whose goal WRAL described as "to help Republicans and hurt Democrats in elections."
Also in September 2025, Democracy Docket reported that Hayes wrote to the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles to ask for full Social Security numbers to match to registered voters.