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News Articles: voting stories

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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By:
  • 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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By:
  • 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
Voters cast their ballots in North Charleston, S.C., on Oct. 16, 2020. A new study says the turnout gap between white and nonwhite voters in the U.S. is growing fastest<em><strong> </strong></em>in jurisdictions that were stripped of a federal voting protection by a Supreme Court decision.

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  • Politics

Racial disparities in voter turnout have grown since Supreme Court ruling, study says

A new study finds that the gap between white and nonwhite voters is growing fastest in places that were stripped of federal civil rights-era voting protections by a 2013 Supreme Court ruling.

March 05, 2024
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
An election worker directs voters to a ballot drop-off location in 2020 in Portland, Ore. Oregon is among the states waiting for the Biden administration to greenlight plans to automatically register eligible voters when they apply to enroll in Medicaid.

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  • Elections

Biden officials keep states waiting on expanding Medicaid voter registration

Officials in Oregon, Colorado and other states are waiting for Biden officials to approve plans to automatically register hundreds of thousands of eligible voters when they apply for Medicaid.

February 23, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
A voter leaves a polling booth at St. Anthony Community Center in Manchester, N.H., during the state's presidential primary on Jan. 23.

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  • Elections

Tech giants pledge action against deceptive AI in elections

Fears over how AI could be used to mislead voters are escalating in a year that will see hundreds of millions of people around the world cast ballots. As a result, tech giants are pledging action.

February 16, 2024
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By:
  • Shannon Bond and
  • Miles Parks
Voters wait to cast their ballots on Jan. 23 in Loudon, N.H. Shortly before voting began, some voters in the state got calls from a faked version of President Biden's voice urging them not to vote, a sign of the potential that deepfakes could have on the electoral process.

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  • News

AI fakes raise election risks as lawmakers and tech companies scramble to catch up

As AI-generated deepfakes are being used to spread false information in elections in the U.S. and around the world, policymakers, tech platforms and governments are trying to catch up.

February 08, 2024
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
Voters of color in Nassau County, N.Y., a segregated suburb of New York City, are waging an unprecedented redistricting fight under a state voting rights act, an emerging tool for protecting voting rights at the local level.

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  • Elections

A voting rights battle in a New York City suburb may lead to a national fight

In one of the most segregated U.S. regions — New York's suburbs — voters of color are waging an unprecedented redistricting fight with an emerging tool for protecting voting rights at the local level.

February 08, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Supporters of former President Donald Trump arrive to hear him speak at a commit to caucus rally in Las Vegas on Saturday. The Nevada Republican Party is holding a caucus to determine who wins the state's GOP delegates — a contest that's two days after the state-run primary.

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  • Elections

Why Nevada has both a primary election and Republican caucus next week

The short answer for why the Nevada GOP is holding its own presidential caucus two days after the state-run primary election: Republicans don't like Nevada's new voting rules.

February 01, 2024
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
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