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News Articles: voting stories

A voter enters the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter Elementary School in New Orleans to cast a ballot in the 2022 elections.

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  • Elections

Judges block Louisiana's congressional map. A Supreme Court appeal is expected

A federal court has blocked Louisiana's new congressional map in a case that could determine the balance of power in the next Congress and set up another Supreme Court test of the Voting Rights Act.

May 01, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows speaks during a forum on Nov. 14, 2022. Meadows has been indicted in Arizona for his alleged efforts to keep former President Donald Trump in power.

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  • Law

Meadows, Giuliani, 11 'fake electors' from 2020 are among those indicted in Arizona

A grand jury in Arizona has indicted a slew of Trump allies for their efforts to try to keep him in power after the 2020 election. Arizona is now the fourth state where "fake electors" face charges.

April 26, 2024
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By:
  • Wayne Schutsky
Jim Hoft, owner of the Gateway Pundit, at the White House in 2019. The website has been hit with defamation lawsuits related to 2020 election fraud conspiracy theories it is accused of spreading.

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  • Media

Gateway Pundit files for bankruptcy after election conspiracy defamation lawsuits

The influential website faced multiple defamation suits over conspiracy theories about 2020 election fraud that it's accused of promoting.

April 25, 2024
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By:
  • Huo Jingnan
A person votes at a polling station in Manhattan during New York's presidential primary on April 2.

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  • Elections

New federal grants aimed to support elections. Many voting officials didn't see a dime

Voting officials cheered when it was announced that a portion of a multibillion-dollar federal grant program would go to election security. But in many cases, the allocations didn't go as planned.

April 23, 2024
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By:
  • Miles Parks
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at an event in Los Angeles on March 30.

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  • Elections

Some independent candidates start their own political parties to ease ballot access

Some states make it much easier to get on the ballot as a minor-party presidential candidate, compared with running as an independent. That's why RFK Jr. and Cornel West have made their own parties.

April 17, 2024
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
Former President Donald Trump stands with former first lady Melania Trump after voting in 2022.

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  • Elections

If convicted this year, Trump could lose the right to vote for himself

In a year of unprecedented political developments, the New York hush money trial could mean one fewer vote for Donald Trump in Florida.

April 15, 2024
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  • Miles Parks
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks as former President Donald Trump listens during a news conference Friday at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla.

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  • Elections

Republicans aim to stop noncitizen voting in federal elections. It's already illegal

The reality is noncitizens are already banned from voting in federal elections and numerous studies have found that it almost never happens.

April 13, 2024
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  • Miles Parks
A sheet of voter stickers is seen inside a polling place in California.

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  • Politics

The most detailed look yet at the 'exodus' of local voting officials

A new report finds more election officials are leaving their jobs now than at any point in the past two decades. But the report also adds new context to the phenomenon.

April 09, 2024
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By:
  • Miles Parks

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  • Elections

Why there's a long-standing voter registration gap for Latinos and Asian Americans

The two fastest-growing groups of eligible U.S. voters — Latinos and Asian Americans — also have the lowest voter registration rates. Advocates are trying to boost sign-ups for a healthier democracy.

April 03, 2024
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  • Hansi Lo Wang
Crystal Mason, center, at the Tim Curry Justice Center in Fort Worth, Texas, on May 25, 2018.

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  • Elections

Texas appeals court acquits Crystal Mason's illegal voting conviction

The court said the state did not have enough evidence to prove that Mason knew she was ineligible to vote when she cast a ballot in the 2016 election. She was facing a five-year prison sentence.

March 29, 2024
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
GOP state Rep. John LaHood speaks in favor of election bill SB 189 at the Georgia House of Representatives in Atlanta on Thursday, the last day of the legislative session. LaHood is the sponsor of the bill in the House.

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  • Elections

Georgia lawmakers pass new election rules that could impact 2024 presidential contest

Republicans in Georgia have repeatedly floated election changes in the wake of false claims by former President Donald Trump and other Republicans that he lost Georgia in 2020 because of fraud.

March 29, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
A local election official organizes mail-in ballots to be sorted for the 2020 general election in West Chester, Pa.

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  • Elections

An appeals court says 'undated' Pennsylvania ballots don't count

A federal appeals panel says mailed ballots arriving on time but in envelopes without dates handwritten by Pennsylvania voters shouldn't be counted. This case is expected to reach the Supreme Court.

March 27, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Source: <a href="https://electioninnovation.org/">The Center for Election Innovation & Research</a>

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  • Elections

New data shows it's gotten easier to vote in the U.S. since 2000

Nearly 97% of voting-age U.S. citizens now live in a state with some form of early voting, according to a new report.

March 19, 2024
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By:
  • Miles Parks
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a campaign rally in Phoenix on Dec. 20, 2023. Both Kennedy's campaign and a super PAC supporting him are working to get the conspiracy theorist on state ballots around the country.

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  • Elections

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to get on the ballot in all 50 states. It won't be easy

To run for president as an independent candidate, conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. needs to get on ballots, a complicated and expensive state-by-state undertaking.

March 13, 2024
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
Conservative attorney Cleta Mitchell, seen here at a South Carolina Republican Party event in 2022, has been circulating a memo laying out "the threat of non-citizen voting in 2024."

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  • Elections

Conservatives are warning about noncitizens voting. It's a myth with a long history

The false notion that undocumented immigrants affect federal elections has a long history. But this year, due in part to rising migration at the U.S. southern border, the idea could have new potency.

March 13, 2024
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By:
  • Miles Parks
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