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News Articles: Elections

This combination of file photos shows Vice President Harris speaking during a campaign rally in Kalamazoo, Mich., on Oct. 26, and former President Donald Trump during a rally Oct. 22 in Greensboro, N.C.

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  • Politics

Harris and Trump are bringing their closing arguments to 2 key Southwest swing states

With five days left until Election Day, the candidates are expected to make a pitch to Latino voters in Arizona and Nevada — and talk about border security, one of the biggest issues for the campaign.

October 31, 2024
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo and
  • Tamara Keith
A crowd chants "Stop the count!" and pounds on the windows and doors after partisan election challengers were told that the capacity for election challengers had been met in the counting facility at what was then Detroit's TCF Center on Nov. 4, 2020.

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  • Elections

After a chaotic vote count in 2020, here's what Detroit will do differently this year

Four years ago, Trump supporters, motivated in part by false election fraud claims, loudly protested at a Detroit counting facility. Election officials are determined to avoid a repeat of the chaos.

October 31, 2024
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By:
  • Quinn Klinefelter
Ms. Meyers and her students begin to count the tallies after counting the ballots at Salt River Elementary School on October 22.

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  • Education

In this school’s election, it’s pizza vs. chicken nuggets, with democracy as the winner

At an Arizona tribal school, it's a fierce campaign to pick the top school lunch, as students learn about making their voice count

October 31, 2024
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By:
  • Jonaki Mehta
Callie Beale and her daughter Kit pose for a portrait near their home in Savannah.

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  • Politics

Delay in care can be deadly in pregnancy. Here's one mother's experience with Georgia's abortion law

“I should have been able to act without the government's interference in order to save my daughter's life,” said Savannah mother Callie Beale.

October 31, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
People wait in line to cast their votes during in New York on October 26, 2024. Online, social media users are floating unverified and false claims about voting that can quickly go viral.

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  • News

Debunking voter fraud conspiracy theories. And, presidential power over abortion

Conspiracy theories connected to voter fraud have increased on social media. And, how both presidential candidates, who have different views on abortion access, could implement their plans if elected.

October 31, 2024
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By:
  • Brittney Melton
Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 27 in New York City.

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  • Politics

Americans bet $100 million on Trump v. Harris, but at what cost?

Political prognosticators legally bet over $100 million on the 2024 presidential election, favoring Harris over Trump.

October 30, 2024
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By:
  • Luke Garrett
A man votes at a public library turned into an early voting polling station in Black Mountain, N.C., on Oct. 29.

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  • Elections

Voting officials face an 'uphill battle' to fight election lies

The deck is stacked against election officials online, maybe even more so than in 2020. Conspiracy theories can quickly get millions of views while debunks gather a fraction of the attention.

October 30, 2024
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By:
  • Shannon Bond and
  • Miles Parks
Vice President Harris takes the stage at a rally in Harrisburg, Pa., on Oct. 30, 2024.

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  • Politics

Harris will spend election night at Howard University, the HBCU that helped shape her

Harris is the first vice president to be an alum of a historically Black college, and if she wins, would make history as the first president to be an HBCU graduate.

October 30, 2024
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
Harris in GA

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  • Elections

Early voting among women voters in Georgia encourages Democrats, even as some polls favor Trump

Women are outvoting men by more than 10 points in Georgia, according to the Georgia Secretary of State's voter turnout data hub.

October 30, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
A voter puts their ballot in a drop box in Norwalk, Calif., during early voting in Los Angeles County. People who vote in the 2024 general election can track their ballots as they move through the system.

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  • Elections

Worried about your 2024 ballot being counted? These states let you track it online

“There's no need to panic,” an elections expert tells NPR. All but three states have free tracking sites that send updates to voters as their ballot goes through the system.

October 30, 2024
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
President Biden's use of the word "garbage" has prompted a political controversy in the waning days of the presidential campaign.

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  • Politics

Harris urged unity in her closing argument. Biden's 'garbage' line undercut that

It sounded like the president was calling Trump supporters "garbage." But the White House said he was talking about a joke made by a comedian at a Trump rally who disparaged Puerto Rico.

October 30, 2024
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
The U.S. Supreme Court put on hold a lower court order that stopped Virginia from purging its voter rolls.

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  • Law

Supreme Court allows Virginia to purge individuals from voter rolls

The U.S. Supreme Court put on hold a lower court order that stopped Virginia from purging its voter rolls. The order comes less than a week before Election Day.

October 30, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Ilana Dutton
Former First Lady Michelle Obama at the When We All Vote Rally in College Park on October 29, 2024. Sarah Kallis/GPB News

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  • Elections

Michelle Obama urges young voters to polls at Georgia rally in last days of presidential campaign

Former first lady Michelle Obama and celebrities from music, film and television urged young Georgians to exercise their right to vote on Tuesday night.

October 30, 2024
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
UNITE HERE canvasser Wernel Martinez crosses a street in the Philadelphia suburb of Norristown after a long day of knocking on voters' doors.

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  • Business

With much at stake, labor unions knock on millions of doors in final campaign push

With much at stake on Election Day, labor unions have deployed canvassers to knock on doors in swing states. With polling tight, the focus is on turning out the vote.

October 30, 2024
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Pastor Chad Harvey says he doesn't think his church is getting more political, but that politics is getting more spiritual.

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  • Politics

Why are some Evangelicals drawn to — and sticking by — Trump? This pastor weighs in

NPR sits down with North Carolina pastor Chad Harvey to talk about Donald Trump, religion and politics.

October 30, 2024
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  • Scott Detrow,
  • Kathryn Fink,
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