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News Articles: voting stories

People vote at a polling location in Queens during New York City's mayoral election on Nov. 4, 2025.

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  • Elections

Americans are split on wanting the National Guard to monitor voting, a new poll finds

Nearly half of Americans support the National Guard monitoring November's elections, potentially signaling an openness to the sort of nationalizing of elections that President Trump says he wants.

March 11, 2026
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By:
  • Miles Parks
Protesters hold signs saying "COUNT ME IN" at a 2019 rally against the Trump administration's push for a census citizenship question outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

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  • Politics

The next redistricting battle might be who is counted in state legislative districts

A Republican push to alter the census may lead to a radical shift in redistricting for state legislatures — drawing districts that don't take into account children and non-U.S. citizen adults.

March 11, 2026
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Then-Arizona state Senate President Karen Fann, right, is joined by then-Sen. Warren Petersen prior to a 2021 hearing on a review of the 2020 election results in Maricopa County.

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  • Elections

Top Arizona lawmaker says he's complied with a subpoena for 2020 election records

Arizona's state Senate president says he has complied with a subpoena he received last week seeking records from a flawed, Republican-led review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County.

March 09, 2026
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By:
  • Benjamin Swasey
A voter carries a ballot during early voting for New York City's mayoral election on Oct. 25, 2025.

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  • Elections

ICE won't be at polling places this year, a Trump DHS official promises

In a call with top state voting officials, a Department of Homeland Security official stated unequivocally that immigration agents would not be patrolling polling places during this year's midterms.

February 25, 2026
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By:
  • Miles Parks
The extraordinary mid-decade redistricting push has "eviscerated the competitive range of districts in which Americans have a real say over who controls Congress in November," says David Wasserman, senior elections analyst for the Cook Political Report.

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  • Elections

Only a fraction of House seats are competitive. Redistricting is driving that lower

Primary voters in a small number of districts play an outsized role in deciding who wins Congress. The Trump-initiated mid-decade redistricting is driving that number of competitive seats even lower.

February 22, 2026
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
People vote at a polling station in Pasadena, Calif., on Nov. 4, 2025.

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  • Elections

A Republican plan to overhaul voting is back. Here's what's new in the bill

A Republican voting overhaul is back on Capitol Hill — with an added photo identification provision and an altered name. Opponents say the legislation would disenfranchise millions of voters.

February 19, 2026
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By:
  • Benjamin Swasey

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  • Elections

How to register to vote in the 2026 primaries

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

February 16, 2026
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang,
  • Benjamin Swasey,
  • and 1 more
Democrats in the Virginia Senate, from left, Sen. Scott Surovell, Sen. Mamie Locke and Sen. Louise Lucas, speak last month as the legislature considered a redistricting plan aimed at countering Republican redistricting in other states.

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  • National

Virginia court allows Democrats' redistricting vote in their plan to counter to Trump

The ruling allows an April election where voters can let the legislature draw a new congressional map. It could help Democrats win more House seats. Republicans might still fight it in court.

February 13, 2026
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By:
  • Jahd Khalil
An FBI employee stands inside the Fulton County election hub, near Atlanta, as the FBI executes a search warrant for 2020 election materials, on Jan. 28.

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  • Elections

The FBI seizure of Georgia 2020 election ballots relies on debunked claims

An NPR review of the FBI affidavit used to seize 2020 election ballots from Georgia's Fulton County finds investigators omitted key findings from previous state inquiries into fraud claims.

February 11, 2026
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
California's Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks in Los Angeles during a 2025 campaign event on Proposition 50. Voters approved the ballot measure, allowing the state's Democratic leaders to temporarily replace the state's congressional map to help Democrats win five additional U.S. House seats.

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  • Elections

The Supreme Court lets California use its new, Democratic-friendly congressional map

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for California to use its new congressional map for this year's midterm election. Voters approved it as a Democratic counterresponse to Texas' new GOP-friendly map.

February 04, 2026
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang and
  • Nina Totenberg
2020 general election ballots are loaded by the FBI onto trucks at the Fulton County election center on Wednesday in Union City, near Atlanta.

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  • Law

The FBI executes a search warrant for 2020 election ballots in Georgia's Fulton County

The FBI on Wednesday executed a search warrant at the election center in Georgia's Fulton County, seeking ballots and other records from the 2020 election.

January 29, 2026
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon speaks to the media about early voting on Sept. 19, 2024.

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  • Politics

Minnesota officials rebuff DOJ's data demands after latest shooting by federal agents

Minnesota officials are rebuffing demands from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, as the state continues its clash with the Trump administration over the surge of federal immigration enforcement.

January 26, 2026
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By:
  • Miles Parks
A person enters a polling station to vote on Nov. 4, 2025, at First United Methodist Church in Pasadena, Calif.

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  • Elections

A federal judge dismisses the DOJ's effort to get voter data from California

The Trump administration has been dealt its first legal setback in its unprecedented effort to consolidate voter data traditionally held by states.

January 15, 2026
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By:
  • Miles Parks
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Illinois Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Bost — seen here with President Trump — has the legal standing to challenge a state law about mail ballots.

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  • Elections

Candidates have legal standing to challenge election laws, the Supreme Court rules

In a case related to Illinois state law about the return of mail ballots, the U.S. Supreme Court says political candidates have the legal standing to challenge election policies.

January 14, 2026
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus speak outside the U.S. Capitol in October after the Supreme Court heard arguments about the Voting Rights Act.

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  • Politics

A Supreme Court ruling could bring historic drop in Black representation in Congress

If the Supreme Court weakens Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, it could usher in the largest-ever drop in representation by Black members of Congress.

January 08, 2026
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
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