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Democracy Docket: DOJ Sues Six States, Escalating Campaign to Seize Private Voter Data
Matt Cohen wrote for Democracy Docket about efforts by the Trump administration to compile a national voter database. The U.S. Department of Justice Thursday…
September 30, 2025
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Politico: Nearly half of election officials concerned about politically motivated investigations
Politico’s Aaron Pellish wrote about a survey documenting the rising anxiety among election officials that they’ll be targeted for their official work. “If you…
September 24, 2025
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NYT: Trump Administration Quietly Seeks to Build National Voter Roll
Devlin Barrett and Nick Corasaniti covered the Justice Department’s bid to create a national voter database that has concerned voting rights experts and state election officials after previous…
September 19, 2025
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NPR: Voting officials are leaving their jobs at the highest rate in decades
NPR’s Miles Parks reported on how an unprecedented rate of local elections workers are changing jobs amidst political pressure, deepening a recruitment problem that states and counties face…
September 19, 2025
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NYT: Election Fraud Falsehoods Are Spreading. Here’s What to Watch For.
Stuart Thompson of the New York Times reports on election conspiracy falsehoods. Conspiracy theories about voter fraud in this election are already swirling, on themes as diverse…
August 18, 2025
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NPR: FBI reports new hoax videos, after warnings that Russia is trying to undermine election
Shannon Bond of NPR reports on FBI warnings of Russian attempts to undermine the election. On Tuesday evening, the FBI called out three fake videos and press releases, which it says…
November 6, 2024
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Votebeat: Bomb threats sully otherwise uneventful voting across the country on Election Day
Carrie Levine and Jessica Huseman of Votebeat report on how bomb threats disrupted an otherwise well administered election. Election Day was relatively tame around the country, though it was marred by…
November 6, 2024
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CNN: Election workers prepare to handle ‘concerning list’ of poll watchers who could disrupt the vote
Sara Murray and Jeremy Herb of CNN report on election workers preparations to deal with disruptive poll workers.
October 25, 2024
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Time: Your Vote Is Safe
Barton Gellman of Time assures voters that despite the torrent of misinformation to the contrary, voting counting and electoral procedures are safe. But the arc of the evidence, based on…
October 25, 2024
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AP: Election officials are fighting a tsunami of voting conspiracy theories
Christina Cassidy and Christine Fernando of AP report on officials’ efforts to combat election misinformation. Voting machines reversing votes. More voters registered than people eligible. Large numbers of…
October 24, 2024