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News Articles: voting stories

Voters fill out their ballots on the second day of early voting in the 2024 presidential election at the Board of Elections Loop Super Site in Chicago on Oct. 4.

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  • Politics

6 facts about false noncitizen voting claims and the election

All the available evidence suggests that a miniscule number of noncitizens vote illegally in federal elections and not in numbers that would sway the outcome of any race.

October 12, 2024
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By:
  • Jude Joffe-Block
Ballot printers for in-person voting are loaded with test ballots in a storage warehouse at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix on June 3.

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  • Elections

How we know voter fraud is very rare in U.S. elections

“Research has been consistent over time that voter fraud is infinitesimally rare,” one expert tells NPR.

October 11, 2024
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
People color in a U.S. electoral map during a 2020 presidential election watch party at the U.S. Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

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  • Elections

This year’s Electoral College map may show another ‘blue shift.’ Here’s why

Differences in how quickly each state’s counties can report this year’s election results may lead to another “blue shift” or “red mirage” on the presidential electoral map.

October 07, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Former President Donald Trump stands on stage after speaking at a campaign event in Indiana, Pa., on Sept. 23. Behind Trump, Republicans are urged to vote in numbers that are "too big to rig."

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  • Elections

Driven by Republicans, most Americans are concerned about fraud in the 2024 election

Nearly 90% of likely Donald Trump voters say they are concerned about voter fraud in the general election, a new NPR/PBS News/Maris poll finds, compared with 29% of those who support Kamala Harris.

October 04, 2024
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By:
  • Miles Parks
A helicopter lands in a yard near Black Mountain, N.C., in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Monday.

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  • Elections

Hurricane Helene upends election planning in some parts of North Carolina

North Carolina election officials have said early voting will start as planned on Oct. 17. But they don't know how many voting sites might be unusable in the swing state because of Hurricane Helene.

October 01, 2024
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By:
  • Steve Harrison
After being drafted to work the polls, Joe Ricceri is now a volunteer with the Douglas County Election Commission in Omaha, Neb.

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  • Elections

Poll workers can be hard to find. In Nebraska, election officials can draft them

Nebraska has a unique solution to staffing elections: It allows counties to draft workers. Omaha's Douglas County is the only one to regularly use it. Here’s how the jury duty-like system works.

October 01, 2024
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By:
  • Kassidy Arena
The Department of Justice is suing Alabama and its top election official, Secretary of State Wes Allen, alleging the state removed voters from rolls too close to this year’s general election.

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  • Elections

Justice Department sues Alabama, claiming it purged voters too close to the election

In a new lawsuit, the Justice Department claims Alabama violated federal law by systematically removing voters fewer than 90 days before a federal election.

September 30, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
An election official organizes mail-in ballots to be sorted for the 2020 general election in West Chester, Pa.

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  • Elections

Legal questions about Pennsylvania mail-in ballots loom as voting starts

As voters in the key swing state of Pennsylvania start receiving mail ballots, multiple legal fights over how the ballots of mail-in voters should be counted are still playing out in the courts.

September 27, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
The Libertarian Party's Chase Oliver, seen here in 2022, appears on presidential ballots in seven key states.

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  • Elections

Here's who's on ballots in the 7 states likely to decide the presidential election

With the presidential election considered a toss up, the votes that third-party and independent candidates receive in key states could decide the White House. Here's who's on those state ballots.

September 26, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Swasey and
  • Ashley Lopez
Voters wait in line at a Las Vegas polling place on Nov. 8, 2022. Voters in Nevada — and several other states — may enact big changes to their election systems.

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  • Elections

Voters in several states could upend how their elections are run

Voters in a record number of states — including the battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada — are set to decide this fall whether to enact far-reaching changes to how their elections are run.

September 24, 2024
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  • Ashley Lopez
Georgia's State Election Board members meet to discuss proposals for election rule changes at the state capitol in Atlanta Friday.

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  • Elections

Georgia's Republican-led election board OKs controversial rule to hand-count ballots

Republicans advanced the ballot hand-counting measure over the opposition of Georgia’s Republican secretary of state and attorney general and dozens of local election officials.

September 20, 2024
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By:
  • Sam Gringlas
A person drops applications for mail-in-ballots into a mailbox in 2020 in Omaha, Neb.

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  • Elections

Voters are advised to return their ballots early because of mail delay concerns

Election officials are raising concerns about the U.S. Postal Service's ability to handle this fall’s expected influx of election mail. But USPS say it’s ready to deliver the country’s ballots.

September 20, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday against the Green Party's bid to put its presidential candidate, Jill Stein, on the Nevada ballot.

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  • Law

Supreme Court rejects Green Party's appeal to put Jill Stein on Nevada ballot

The court’s action upheld a decision of the Nevada Supreme Court.

September 20, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
A voter fills out their New Hampshire presidential primary ballot at a polling location in Bedford on Jan. 23.

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  • Elections

Concerns about noncitizen voting drive sweeping new restrictions in New Hampshire

A new law in New Hampshire will require anyone registering to vote for the first time in the Granite State to provide documentation they are U.S. citizens, like a birth certificate or passport.

September 19, 2024
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By:
  • Miles Parks and
  • Todd Bookman
Zach Manifold is the elections director in suburban Atlanta’s Gwinnett County, where training for 2,000 poll workers begins this week.

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  • Elections

Georgia election officials worry a GOP-led board will OK last-minute voting changes

Georgia election officials have said they are “gravely concerned that dramatic changes” approved by the State Election Board “will disrupt the preparation and training processes already in motion.”

September 18, 2024
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By:
  • Sam Gringlas
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