July 14, 2026  ·  Reboot 2028 PAC

What's Critical for 2026: Election Integrity

Every midterm year gets called "the most important election of our lifetime." This one has a specific, concrete case for it: the 2026 midterms are happening under conditions of federal intervention in election administration that are new territory for the modern era.

A mid-decade redistricting arms race

Redistricting normally happens once a decade, after the census. In 2025, that norm broke down. Seven states — California, Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Utah, and Virginia — redrew their congressional maps mid-decade, largely in response to a Texas push (endorsed by President Trump) to redraw districts for partisan advantage. Redrawing maps this late in the cycle doesn't just shift a few seats; it throws primaries already underway into disarray, confuses voters about which district they're in, and costs election offices real money to implement on short notice.

Federal reach into state-run elections

Elections in the U.S. are constitutionally run by states and municipalities, not the federal government. That norm is being tested too. The current administration has pursued Department of Justice requests for state voter file data and issued executive orders touching how ballots are handled, including directing the U.S. Postal Service not to deliver certain ballots. Combined with turnover in federal election-security roles and personnel changes that have put election skeptics into key oversight positions, the infrastructure that's quietly protected U.S. elections for the past decade is under more direct pressure than it's faced before.

Certification is the next fight

Vote counting used to be the boring part. Now certification — the formal, final step where results become official — is itself contested ground. Civil liberties organizations are responding at real scale: one coalition alone is deploying more than 100 paid staff and 3,000 volunteers to monitor ballot counting and certification this cycle, and is party to more than 80 lawsuits across two dozen states and Washington, D.C. over redistricting and mail-ballot restrictions.

What we're doing about it

This is exactly the kind of fight Reboot 2028 PAC exists for, because it isn't a partisan issue at its core — a rigged process is bad for whoever loses under it, and good norms protect everyone's vote equally, regardless of party. Concretely, we're pushing for state-level audit-before-certification procedures, opposing federal overreach into state election administration regardless of which party holds the White House, and calling out mid-decade gerrymandering whenever either party does it. See the full list on our Agenda page.

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