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News Articles: voting stories

People vote at a polling station at Meadows Mall in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Nevada was one of several states to vote down election reform efforts.

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  • Elections

Ballot measures to upend state election systems failed across the country

Statewide efforts to adopt open and nonpartisan primaries, as well as ranked choice voting, failed in this year’s election, delivering a stinging setback to the election reform movement.

November 08, 2024
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
People wait in line to vote outside a polling station at the Dryland United Church of Christ in Nazareth, Pa., on Tuesday.

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  • Elections

Bomb threats disrupted what was otherwise relatively smooth voting on Election Day

Bomb threats that U.S. officials linked to Russian email domains disrupted what was generally a smooth voting experience across America on Election Day.

November 06, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang,
  • Benjamin Swasey,
  • and 1 more

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  • Elections

Results: A number of states have ballot measures about voting

A number of states — including Arizona, Montana and Nevada — are voting on far-reaching changes to how their elections are run.

November 05, 2024
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By:
  • NPR Washington Desk
People cast ballots in Howell, Mich., on Sunday.

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  • Elections

Election Day guide: What you need to know as you wait for results

The turbulent 2024 campaign has reached its end. Here are some things to keep in mind throughout Election Day and beyond.

November 05, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Swasey
Mail-in ballots are displayed during a processing demonstration on Sept. 30 at the Bucks County Board of Elections office in Doylestown, Pa. Across Pennsylvania, more than 4,000 mail ballot challenges have been filed, mainly against overseas voters.

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  • Elections

Thousands of Pennsylvania voters have had their mail ballot applications challenged

Thousands of last-minute challenges to voters’ mail ballot applications, along with baseless claims by former President Donald Trump, are adding pressure on Pennsylvania county officials.

November 04, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Voters in Dearborn cast ballots Tuesday, during Michigan's early voting period. Elon Musk recently surfaced a baseless claim about the state's voter rolls.

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  • Elections

A simple truth is at the root of many false election claims: Voter rolls are imperfect

At the heart of many election conspiracy theories is a simple truth: America’s voter rolls are imperfect. The U.S. doesn’t have a central voting list. It has a bunch of different lists.

November 03, 2024
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By:
  • Miles Parks
Voters cast their ballots on the last day of early voting for the 2024 election on Friday in Atlanta.

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  • Politics

Fake videos from Russian propagandists aim to raise tensions ahead of Election Day

Intelligence officials say the video, which purported to show a Haitian immigrant claiming he had voted multiple times in Georgia, is the product of a Russian propaganda operation.

November 01, 2024
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a case involving provisional ballots in Pennsylvania.

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  • Law

Supreme Court sides with Democrats in Pennsylvania voting case

It is hard to estimate how many ballots will be affected by the decision or whether it will ultimately impact the outcome of the presidential election.

November 01, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Ilana Dutton
A person holds the certificate of electoral votes from Pennsylvania during a joint session of Congress early on Jan. 7, 2021, as the counting of electoral votes resumed after the riot at the U.S. Capitol.

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  • Elections

Here are the key Electoral College dates to keep in mind ahead of Inauguration Day

Former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the last election put a spotlight on what are essentially ministerial steps between Election Day and Inauguration Day. Here are the key dates ahead.

November 01, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Swasey
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
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
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
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
Voters work on their ballots at a polling station in Arlington, Va., on Sept. 20.

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  • Politics

U.S. citizens are among the voters removed in Virginia’s controversial purge

Nadra Wilson and other Virginians got letters saying her U.S. citizenship was in question, along with her voter registration. “I was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. — I'm a citizen,” Wilson told NPR.

October 29, 2024
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By:
  • Jude Joffe-Block
SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk awarded Kristine Fishell with a $1 million check on Oct. 20. The legality of these cash prizes has been called into question.

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  • Politics

Philadelphia DA sues Elon Musk over $1 million giveaway to registered voters

The suit alleges that Musk and his super PAC are luring voters to give up identifying information in pursuit of a cash prize. DA Larry Krasner called the scheme “indisputably an unlawful lottery.”

October 29, 2024
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  • Alana Wise
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