Elections

Jan. 6 panel asked Ginni Thomas about campaign to overturn the 2020 election results

4:10pm September 29, 2022

by Claudia Grisales

Conservative activist Ginni Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, has given closed-door testimony to the Jan. 6 panel about her involvement with a campaign to overturn the 2020 election results.

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.

Politics & Government

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

10:10am September 27, 2022

by Ashley Lopez

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.

Social media company Meta's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The Facebook parent company says it has removed a Russian network pushing a pro-Kremlin view of the war in Ukraine and a Chinese network targeting the U.S. midterm elections.

Politics & Government

Facebook takes down Russian network impersonating European news outlets

8:15am September 27, 2022

by Shannon Bond

Meta says it has disrupted a large Russian network of fake accounts pushing a pro-Kremlin view of the war in Ukraine and a separate Chinese campaign targeting the U.S. midterm elections.

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro greets supporters during a reelection campaign rally. Ahead of the first round of voting on Oct. 2, Bolsonaro has baselessly claimed that voting machines will be rigged against him, an echo of former U.S. President Donald Trump's false claims about the 2020 election.

Brazilians are about to vote. And they're dealing with familiar viral election lies

5:00am September 27, 2022

by Shannon Bond

As Brazilians head to the polls to vote for president, they're being deluged by a wave of falsehoods that echo Donald Trump's claims of a stolen election.

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Many fear Brazil will see its own 'Big Lie' about election fraud soon

6:09pm September 26, 2022

by Shannon Bond

As Brazilians head to the polls to vote for president, they're being deluged by a wave of falsehoods that echo Donald Trump's claims of a stolen election.

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From left, The League's Matteo Salvini, Forza Italia's Silvio Berlusconi, Brothers of Italy's Giorgia Meloni and Noi Con l'Italia's Maurizio Lupi attend the center-right coalition closing rally in Rome on Thursday. If polling is correct, Italians will elect their country's most right-wing government since the end of World War II on Sunday.

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Giorgia Meloni may become Italy's 1st far-right leader since World War II

3:02am September 24, 2022

by Adam Raney

Far-right candidate Giorgia Meloni is favored to be voted in as Italy's next prime minister Sunday. Her Brothers of Italy party has roots in the neo-fascist movement that emerged after World War II.

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Italy appears likely to elect its most right wing leader since World War II

4:51pm September 23, 2022

by Adam Raney

Italy heads for a historic election. If Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party wins Sunday's election, she could also make history by becoming the country's first woman prime minister.

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.

Politics & Government

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

5:00am September 23, 2022

by Hansi Lo Wang

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.

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.

Politics & Government

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

5:04am September 22, 2022

by Miles Parks

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.

The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, seen during a public session in July. The panel has scheduled another hearing for next week.

Politics & Government

Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, will speak with the House Jan. 6 panel

9:30pm September 21, 2022

The committee asked to interview Thomas on her communications with a lawyer pushing for then-Vice President Pence to block the Electoral College count of the 2020 election results.