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How officials implement the rules and manage the processes of elections, from registering voters and processing ballots to counting votes and certifying results. Reporting on the people and practices behind each step.
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As the Postal Service reforms its mail distribution, and after a year when its role in elections was in federal court, mail balloting has trust issues.
By Chris Deaton
While dissimilar in nature, list management lapses sometimes crop up in states. Their randomness points to human and software errors generally — not a problem with noncitizen voting or another particular issue.
By Chris Deaton
The Secretary of State in the first, and the Maricopa County Attorney in the second, either determined or referred for investigation 125 combined cases of noncitizen voting, from more than 20 million registered voters.
More than 300 soldiers in Kentucky just deployed on a mission unknown. How will they get ballot access for the Midterms?
For the same reasons [Americans] trust the elections in their backyard, they should trust the elections in my backyard.
This time, an independent auditing agency acted at the instruction of the state legislature, providing new perspective — and familiar results.
Navy veteran Alberto Ramos knows about the work that goes into voting at sea. That’s because there’s a specific job for it.
‘Election officials know that late changes almost always lead to unforeseen consequences,’ the group wrote, asking the court to not allow the rule to apply to this year’s Midterms.
By Chris Deaton
There’s already a lot of factual background to the Trump administration’s increase of investigative resources two months from Election Day. It tells a story the gist of which is unlikely to change.
By Chris Deaton
The Oklahoma governor, who just completed his term as chairman of the National Governors Association, argues in Declare for keeping America’s elections responsive and accountable with the right constitutional balance of power.
The USPS issued a final rule in late August, and the Supreme Court overruled a lower court in a related case one business day later. But the developments are hardly decisive about elections this November.
By Chris Deaton
Poll worker shortages are a common concern of election officials nationwide. In West Virginia and Tennessee, the secretaries of state try out something new to aid recruitment efforts.