Why a ‘spider crab’ is crawling to the top of a US ‘I voted’ sticker contest | The fight to vote

Voters in Ulster county, New York, may receive a sticker of Hudson Rowan's design this November - and many say it's a fitting image' of the political scene

Hello, and Happy Thursday,

One morning a few months ago, Ashley Dittus, a Democratic election commissioner in Ulster county, New York, came into work and saw that someone had sent in the first submission in a countywide contest for an I voted" sticker. She opened the email and was shocked. It was a moment I'll never forget," Dittus told me on Wednesday.

Grid published a deep dive into the Conservative Partnership Institute, a conservative non-profit, that has been leading a push to recruit election workers, among other efforts.

The Wisconsin supreme court ruled on Friday that ballot drop-boxes were illegal. Writing in dissent, three justices said the majority's rhetoric was downright dangerous to our democracy".

Election officials are worried about insider threats to voting systems