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News Articles: voting stories

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, seen here in 2020, said his office had aided in the arrest of the CEO of a Michigan-based election software company on "suspicion of theft of personal identifying information."

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  • Investigations

A software CEO was arrested on suspicion of storing poll worker data in China

The Los Angeles County district attorney accused the CEO of a small company that makes software for election workers of illegally storing data on servers in China. The company denies the allegation.

October 07, 2022
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach
Construction crews make repairs to a bridge on the island of Matlacha, in Florida's Lee County, on Wednesday. Lee County's election officials are scrambling to figure out plans for this fall's election.

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  • Elections

Florida officials are scrambling to limit Hurricane Ian's impact on the election

Election officials in Florida say they are meeting a Thursday deadline to send out mail ballots, despite the hurricane. But in-person voting sites remain a concern.

October 07, 2022
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
A Georgia election official examines a ballot during that state's hand-count audit in 2020.

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  • Elections

Hand-counting ballots may sound nice. It's actually less accurate and more expensive

Republicans in some states are pushing to count ballots the old-fashioned way — which experts say would bring a level of chaos to elections not seen in decades.

October 07, 2022
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By:
  • Miles Parks
In this 2020 file photo, an election worker sorts vote-by-mail ballots at the Miami-Dade County Board of Elections in Doral, Fla. Florida is one of about half of U.S. states that have ballot curing provisions.

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  • Elections

Voting explainer: In many states, there's a process to fix an error with your ballot

Ballot rejections are often the result of relatively minor voter errors. That's why about half of states have a process in place to help voters fix their mail ballots if they do make a mistake.

September 30, 2022
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
A voter passes large signs spelling out "Vote Here" in Minneapolis in September 2016. Voters in Minnesota can start casting their ballots for this year's midterm elections on Friday.

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  • Elections

Stop thinking just about Election Day. We're in voting season now

Voting for the midterms has started in some states. With more people voting early and mailing in ballots, elections are increasingly less about Election Day and more about what happens weeks earlier.

September 23, 2022
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
The Presidential Election Reform Act was introduced by Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. (left), and Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., both of whom sit on the Democratic-led House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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  • Elections

The House just passed a bill that would make it harder to overthrow an election

The bill would amend the Electoral Count Act, which legal experts have called vague and confusing. The legislation is similar to a somewhat narrower bill from a bipartisan group of senators.

September 22, 2022
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By:
  • Miles Parks
Catherine Engelbrecht, seen here in 2015, founded the controversial nonprofit True the Vote. A new lawsuit alleges that Engelbrecht and True the Vote defamed a small company that makes software for election workers.

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  • Investigations

Prominent election deniers are facing growing legal trouble

The group True the Vote, which executive produced Dinesh D'Souza's "2,000 Mules" election denial film, is facing a defamation lawsuit brought by a small company that makes election software.

September 20, 2022
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach
Election workers sort absentee ballots at the Lansing city clerk's office on Nov. 3, 2020, in Lansing, Mich. This fall, Michigan voters will weigh in on an expansive ballot question that would change the voting process.

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  • Elections

Voters in these states could make big changes to how their elections are run

The battlegrounds of Michigan and Nevada are among the states where voters this fall are set to decide ballot measures relating to the elections process.

September 15, 2022
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By:
  • Benjamin Swasey
A voter in the foreground casts her ballot during the Republican primary election in Wilson, Wyo., on Aug. 16.

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  • Elections

Some Wyoming Republicans want to limit the secretary of state after Trump's pick wins

Wyoming GOP secretary of state nominee Chuck Gray is unopposed in November. After his nomination, some Republicans are aiming to remove the secretary of state's ability to oversee elections.

September 08, 2022
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By:
  • Bob Beck
Layi Oniwinde, 16, fills out an election worker application as his mother, Adaobi Oniwinde, looks on with a smile in Wheaton, Md. "I love the way the system here allows everybody to be involved," says Adaobi about the U.S. election system.

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  • Elections

The midterm elections need workers. Teens, veterans and lawyers are stepping up

Some election officials are sending the call out to high school students, veterans and lawyers to help staff the elections. But COVID and the political climate are making it harder to recruit.

September 07, 2022
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Couy Griffin, a county commissioner in Otero County, New Mexico, speaks on June 17 outside federal court in Washington, D.C., where he was convicted of entering a restricted area during the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

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  • Politics

A New Mexico judge cites insurrection in barring a county commissioner from office

Otero County's Couy Griffin, who was convicted of entering a restricted area during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, must be removed from office for his involvement in an insurrection, a judge ruled.

September 06, 2022
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during an Aug. 18 press conference in Fort Lauderdale, where he announced that the state's new Office of Election Crimes and Security was in the process of arresting 20 individuals for voter fraud.

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  • Elections

20 were charged for voter fraud in Florida. Advocates say a broken system is to blame

Many of the individuals charged by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' new election crimes unit said they had no idea that with their felony convictions, they were unable to vote when they cast 2020 ballots.

August 30, 2022
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
A disconnected Albert sensor in Lincoln County, Wash.

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  • Elections

Some Republicans in Washington state cast a wary eye on an election security device

Albert sensors alert local governments to potential hacking attempts. But in Washington state, this cybersecurity tool has become the subject of suspicion by some on the political right.

August 29, 2022
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By:
  • Miles Parks and
  • Austin Jenkins
In this 2020 photo, an election worker sorts vote-by-mail ballots at the Miami-Dade County Board of Elections in Doral, Fla.

Tagged as: 

  • National

A change to Florida's ballot signature review creates headaches for local officials

"Now the requirement is for reasonable access to potentially look at a vast number of signatures that our staff has found absolutely no trouble with," a top election official says.

August 24, 2022
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
"I Voted" stickers are seen on March 1 in Austin, Texas.

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  • Elections

A Texas county's election administrators all resigned, leaving the state to step in

In conservative Gillespie County, the elections administrator and her two deputies have resigned, with at least one citing threats fueled by misinformation.

August 22, 2022
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By:
  • Joey Palacios,
  • Dan Katz,
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