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News Articles: voting stories

President Trump signed an executive order to give him and other presidents greater power over independent regulatory agencies — entities Congress set up to be shielded from White House control.

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  • Politics

Trump wants more power over agencies. Experts worry about campaign finance regulators

President Trump's effort to "rein in" independent agencies is raising particular concern among those who follow the work of the Federal Election Commission, which enforces campaign finance laws.

February 20, 2025
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
Standing in front of the North Carolina Supreme Court in Raleigh on Jan. 14, Ted Corcoran reads a list of over 60,000 people who cast ballots in the November 2024 election but whose votes have been challenged by Republican court candidate Jefferson Griffin in his extremely close race with Democratic Justice Allison Riggs.

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  • Elections

A Republican court candidate in North Carolina wants to toss out thousands of votes

More than 80 days after Election Day, a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court remains unresolved. That's because the Republican candidate is contesting some 65,000 ballots.

January 30, 2025
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By:
  • Steve Harrison
A sign for voter registration stands in Columbia, S.C., in 2024.

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  • Elections

Trump revokes Biden's order for federal agencies to promote voter registration

President Trump has reversed an executive order by former President Joe Biden that calls for federal agencies to promote voter registration.

January 20, 2025
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Employees sort ballots in Los Angeles County on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024. California regularly takes weeks to count all of its general election ballots.

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  • Elections

A need for speed: Several states are looking for ways to count votes faster

Lawmakers in California and other states want to change vote-counting rules to speed up the process. One key question is whether counting can be sped up without sacrificing access to the ballot.

January 17, 2025
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
Cleta Mitchell, head of the Election Integrity Network, speaks during a May 2024 news conference outside the U.S. Capitol to introduce the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who's at left.

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  • Elections

Despite Trump's win, 'election integrity' activists still seek sweeping voting changes

Republican voters say they trust the 2024 election was administered well, yet pro-Trump conservatives are pushing some sweeping reforms to voting systems.

January 13, 2025
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By:
  • Miles Parks
Then-Vice President Mike Pence reads the final certification of Electoral College votes after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in 2021. A new law clarifies that the vice president's role in the counting of electoral votes is ministerial. Congress will count the votes from the 2024 presidential election on Monday.

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  • Elections

Jan. 6 is set to be different this year — in a big way and more subtle ways too

In response to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot four years ago, Congress passed new rules to govern the presidential certification process. Those rules will be in effect Monday.

January 07, 2025
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By:
  • Miles Parks
Nevada Republican Party Chair Michael McDonald, one of the 2024 presidential electors facing felony charges related to the 2020 "fake electors" scheme, speaks during the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee in July.

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  • Elections

'Fake electors' from 2020 are casting 2024 votes for Trump while facing felony charges

Eight of the Republicans set to cast Michigan and Nevada's 2024 Electoral College votes for President-elect Donald Trump still face felony charges related to efforts to reverse Trump's 2020 loss.

December 17, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Voters take a selfie after casting ballots at Edsel Ford High School on Nov. 5 in Dearborn, Mich.

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  • Elections

Election confidence among Republicans surges after Trump's win, a new poll finds

Almost 9 in 10 U.S. voters felt the November election was run well, according to new survey data. That's a jump compared with 2020 — an increase driven exclusively by Republican voters.

December 07, 2024
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  • Miles Parks
A visitor looks at an exhibition on voting rights in the U.S. at the International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C., in January.

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  • Elections

With the Voting Rights Act facing more threats, advocates renew a push for state laws

With efforts to bolster the federal Voting Rights Act unlikely under Republican control of the new Congress, advocates are refocusing on state protections against racial discrimination in elections.

December 06, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
People line up to vote at a polling station at Greater Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Charlotte on Nov. 5.

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  • Politics

North Carolina's voter ID law just got its first big test

For more than a decade, North Carolina has seen a bitter back-and-forth over voter identification rules. The requirement finally got its first major test in last month's presidential election.

December 04, 2024
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  • Steve Harrison
Voters wait in line to cast their ballots at Burton Barr Central Library before the polls open on Nov. 5 in Phoenix. President-elect Donald Trump won Arizona and the presidency, and he's on track to become the first Republican in two decades to win the national popular vote.

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  • Politics

Will 2024 make Republicans rethink their relationship with voter turnout?

Conventional political wisdom says high turnout elections are good for Democrats. Well, 2024 says maybe not. So will Republicans rethink long-held positions on voting access?

November 20, 2024
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By:
  • Miles Parks
A Philadelphia County elections staff member processes mail-in ballots on Election Day.

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  • Elections

Pennsylvania's high court sides with Republicans on misdated mail ballots

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has directed county officials not to count mail ballots for the general election that arrived on time but in envelopes missing the correct date handwritten by voters.

November 18, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Fulton County election workers process absentee ballots on Nov. 4, in Union City, Ga.

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  • Elections

Georgia counties certify the election, as fraud claims dissipate after Trump win

Every county in Georgia has certified its general election results. There had been concerns about election certification, but with Donald Trump's victory, those worries have largely gone away.

November 12, 2024
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By:
  • Sam Gringlas
Philadelphia County board of elections staff processes ballots on Election Day at the ballot counting elections warehouse on the outskirts of Philadelphia, Pa.

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  • Politics

2020's debunked election fraud claims are coming back due to Trump's 2024 victory

Election deniers have spent the past four years focused on false claims that 2020 was rigged. This year, it raised similar alarms about fraud — only for those claims to evaporate as returns came in.

November 11, 2024
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
A person drops off a mail-in ballot in October in Doylestown, Pa. Pennsylvania county officials received thousands of last-minute challenges to voters’ absentee ballot applications, most of which were withdrawn shortly after Election Day.

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  • Elections

Mail ballot challenges are dropped in Pennsylvania shortly after Election Day

Within two days after Election Day, right-wing activists and two Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania withdrew thousands of last-minute challenges to voters’ absentee ballot applications.

November 09, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
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