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Snyder County’s new election director passes his first big test. Next comes November.
Elections are a new line of work for Rhoads. His original career choice was veterinary medicine, after he graduated with a ...
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Why we think spotlighting flaws in elections actually helps increase voter confidence
Elections are complex, and mistakes happen. By covering them, we hope we can help prevent them from happening again.
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Pennsylvania’s redesigned mail ballot envelopes trip up many voters who left date incomplete
An envelope redesign was meant to cut down on date errors, but now some voters are leaving the last two digits of the year ...
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Fired head of U.S. election agency got unauthorized $31,000 raise, investigation finds
Steven Frid was ousted in December from the Election Assistance Commission, which has struggled in recent years to provide ...
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The fear of noncitizen voting is as baseless as it has been for 200 years
The Republican Party is fomenting this fear to anger its base into turning out. Parties have done it dozens of times in our ...
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Brazos elections officials shoulder new costs and burdens to appease skeptics
An added $14,000 expense for specially printed ballot paper won’t make voting much more secure, but it may help appease ...
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Inside the private company Maricopa County depends on to power through the last-minute ballot slog
While America waits for results from Maricopa County, scanners at Runbeck’s Phoenix warehouse process tens of thousands of ...
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Wisconsinites with disabilities demand a better way to vote at home, but security concerns may be a hurdle
Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for our free newsletters here. When Stacy Ellingen, a 38-year-old Oshkosh ...
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A Cochise official’s vote for hand-counting ballots came at a cost. Will anyone help her pay it?
Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for our free newsletters here. Peggy Judd listened with interest in late ...