Miranda Combs

Regular

Miranda Combs

Reporter

Miranda Combs is a Reporter for Declare. An Emmy- and Murrow Award-winning investigative reporter and news director in Kentucky, Combs began her career with WKYT in Lexington as the station’s crime reporter before breaking from television to join the firm Preston-Osborne, where she led one of its biggest accounts, FACES of Coal. TV called Combs back in 2013, where she was the only investigative reporter-and-anchor combination in the broadcast region. Her work brought home an Emmy Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award, along with several Kentucky Associated Press awards.

In 2020, Combs was made the communications director for the Kentucky secretary of state. She gained special recognition when she helped implement a policy of putting QR codes on the sides of beer cans across the commonwealth, linking them to register to vote. During her time in the secretary’s office, she also helped advocate and pass a law giving adoptive parents the same maternity leave as maternal parents.

Combs returned to the news business as assistant news director at WDKY in Lexington, and most recently became news director at WTVQ prior to joining Declare.

Navy veteran Alberto Ramos knows about the work that goes into voting at sea. That’s because there’s a specific job for it.
Secretaries of State volunteered their thoughts about local control of election administration during a biannual meeting.
Declare’s Miranda Combs does a Q&A with leaders of veterans groups that signed an amicus brief in Watson v. RNC, about their concerns prior to the decision and issues facing military voters more broadly.
Kentucky’s Michael Adams talks to Declare about his experience with voter rolls and the Justice Department, federalism in elections, and more.
The Postal Service responded “quickly” to a concern of election clerks that Republican members of Congress took to the agency, but doubts remain about the implications of the apparently simple issue.
Primary season in the Magnolia State is concluding, but the calendar quickly turns to a mail ballot issue before the high court that involves their state’s leadership and could affect the general election across the U.S.
A new USPS rule is leaving county clerks concerned — some angry, and some par for the course.
Amid turnover, new recruitment and training infrastructure builds up to attract a new slate of election workers.
Turnover in election administration is becoming better documented, based on recent research. But what is for certain is the changing nature of the job under threat.
A project at Arizona State University is trying to help election admins identify uses of AI that benefit their constituents — and make up for the lack of staff.
Question 1 in the Pine Tree State fell far short of approval because its opponents described the details mostly right — even if out of order.