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'Fake electors' from 2020 are casting 2024 votes for Trump while facing felony charges

5:00am December 17, 2024

Eight of the Republicans set to cast Michigan and Nevada's 2024 Electoral College votes for President-elect Donald Trump still face felony charges related to efforts to reverse Trump's 2020 loss.

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Election confidence among Republicans surges after Trump's win, a new poll finds

3:38pm December 06, 2024

Almost 9 in 10 U.S. voters felt the November election was run well, according to new survey data. That's a jump compared with 2020 — an increase driven exclusively by Republican voters.

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With the Voting Rights Act facing more threats, advocates renew a push for state laws

5:00am December 06, 2024

With efforts to bolster the federal Voting Rights Act unlikely under Republican control of the new Congress, advocates are refocusing on state protections against racial discrimination in elections.

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After years of legal fights, North Carolina's voter ID law gets its first major test

5:45pm December 03, 2024

For more than a decade, North Carolina has seen a bitter back-and-forth over voter identification rules. The requirement finally got its first major test in last month's presidential election.

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Americans Go To The Polls In The 2024 Elections

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Will Trump's high-turnout win make Republicans rethink opposition to voting access?

5:47pm November 18, 2024

by Miles Parks

Conventional political wisdom says high turnout elections are good for Democrats. Well, 2024 says maybe not. So will Republicans rethink long-held positions on voting access?

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Pennsylvania's high court sides with Republicans on misdated mail ballots

4:06pm November 18, 2024

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has directed county officials not to count mail ballots for the general election that arrived on time but in envelopes missing the correct date handwritten by voters.

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Georgia counties certify the election, as fraud claims dissipate after Trump win

6:01pm November 12, 2024

Every county in Georgia has certified its general election results. There had been concerns about election certification, but with Donald Trump's victory, those worries have largely gone away.

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Mail ballot challenges are dropped in Pennsylvania shortly after Election Day

5:00am November 09, 2024

Within two days after Election Day, right-wing activists and two Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania withdrew thousands of last-minute challenges to voters’ absentee ballot applications.

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2020's debunked election fraud claims are coming back due to Trump's 2024 victory

5:00am November 09, 2024

Election deniers have spent the past four years focused on false claims that 2020 was rigged. This year, it raised similar alarms about fraud — only for those claims to evaporate as returns came in.

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Ballot measures to upend state election systems failed across the country

4:30pm November 08, 2024

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.