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News Articles: voting stories

The Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, has for years operated as a bipartisan success story in election administration. But since early 2022, the far right has targeted ERIC, fracturing a partnership that had 32 member states at its height. Eight states where Republicans oversee voting have so far pulled out.

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  • Elections

How the far right tore apart one of the best tools to fight voter fraud

A right-wing campaign has targeted a once-obscure voting partnership called ERIC. Eight Republican states have now pulled out, giving the election denial movement a big win — and a blueprint for 2024.

June 06, 2023
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By:
  • Miles Parks
A voter and her daughter cast a ballot in Houston during the 2020 general election. New bills passed by Texas lawmakers target how elections are run in Harris County, which is home to Houston.

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  • Elections

Texas Republicans target how elections are run in Democratic-leaning Houston area

Texas Republican lawmakers sent bills to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk that would dramatically interfere with elections administration in the state's largest, Democratic-run county.

June 01, 2023
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By:
  • Andrew Schneider
Voting booths are seen at Glass Elementary School's polling station in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Nov. 8, 2022.

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  • Elections

Is Texas next up? Lawmakers clear the way for the state to leave voter data group ERIC

Texas is on its way to being the latest — and largest — state to leave a bipartisan data sharing partnership that states across the country use to cross check their voter rolls.

May 30, 2023
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
Supporters and opponents of a GOP-backed measure that would make it harder to amend the Ohio Constitution packed the Statehouse rotunda on May 10 in Columbus. That measure is set for an August special election.

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  • Elections

Ohio election officials scramble ahead of August vote on state constitution changes

Ohio Republicans set up an August special election to decide whether to make it harder to amend the state constitution, before voters might see an amendment on abortion access.

May 25, 2023
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By:
  • Karen Kasler
Demonstrators opposed to partisan gerrymandering hold up representations of congressional districts from North Carolina (left) and Maryland (right) outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2019.

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  • Elections

Is drawing a voting map that helps a political party illegal? Only in some states

A North Carolina court's unusual ruling has highlighted the fact that some states allow voting districts to be drawn in ways that make elections less competitive and help one political party win.

May 20, 2023
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
A voter fills out his ballot at an early voting location in Alexandria, Va., on Sept. 26, 2022.

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  • Elections

Virginia becomes the latest GOP-governed state to quit a voter data partnership

Virginia is the eighth state to leave the bipartisan ERIC compact amid fringe conservative reports and conspiracy theories attempting to connect the system to liberal activists.

May 12, 2023
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By:
  • Ben Paviour and
  • Miles Parks
People vote in the midterm elections on Nov. 8, 2022, at a fire station in Hialeah, Fla.

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  • Elections

Advocates in Florida clamor for a fix for the formerly incarcerated who want to vote

There's no easy way for Floridians returning from prison to figure out what's needed to regain their voting rights. And advocates are critical of language set to be added to voter registration cards.

May 05, 2023
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
Employees of the Miami-Dade County Elections Department process vote-by-mail ballots for the midterm elections in November 2022 in Miami.

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  • Elections

Voter turnout for the 2022 elections was the 2nd highest for midterms since 2000

Voter turnout for last year's elections was the second highest for a midterms since 2000, and close to half of voters cast ballots early or by mail, estimates from a Census Bureau survey show.

May 02, 2023
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Demonstrators gather outside the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh, N.C., with a "FLUSH GERRYMANDER" inflatable on the day the state's highest court held a rehearing for the redistricting case known nationally as <em>Moore v. Harper</em>.

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  • Elections

A North Carolina court overrules itself in a case tied to a disputed election theory

North Carolina's highest court has overruled one of its own rulings, throwing into question if the U.S. Supreme Court will issue a decision on the major elections case known as Moore v. Harper.

May 01, 2023
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell arrives at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in April.

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  • Business

He 'Proved Mike Wrong.' Now he's claiming his $5 million

A software engineer proves MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell wrong and debunks a false election conspiracy. Then what happens?

April 28, 2023
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By:
  • H.J. Mai
A worker examines a ballot at the Clackamas County elections office on May 19, 2022, in Oregon City, Ore. No Labels, a centrist group that has floated a bipartisan presidential ticket, has secured access to the ballot in Oregon and other states.

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  • Elections

No Labels is getting on state ballots, drawing a lawsuit and concerns about a spoiler

The centrist political group No Labels is getting on the ballot in individual states, causing consternation among members of the major political parties about the organization's endgame.

April 26, 2023
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By:
  • Ben Giles
MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell talks to reporters at the Republican National Committee winter meeting in Dana Point, Calif., on Jan. 27.

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  • Law

MyPillow founder Mike Lindell is ordered to pay $5M in election fraud challenge

The election conspiracy theorist said he has no intention of paying the arbitration panel's order of $5 million and that he expects the dispute to land in court.

April 21, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Blair Dacey, who was pardoned after a second-degree murder conviction, is photographed on April 6 at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond. Dacey is seeking to have her voting rights restored in the state.

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  • Elections

Gov. Youngkin slows voting rights restorations in Virginia, bucking a trend

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has slowed restorations of voting rights for the formerly incarcerated while failing to specify what criteria he's using, sparking a federal lawsuit.

April 13, 2023
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By:
  • Ben Paviour
A resident signs an initiative petition supporting a gun safety ballot measure on June 7, 2022, outside a library in Salem, Ore., as a signature gatherer holds the clipboard.

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  • Elections

The price of a ballot signature is way up, and experts worry it's encouraging fraud

A scandal affecting Michigan Republicans last year highlighted instances of suspected fraud in the signature-gathering process. Some states are now looking to crack down on bad actors.

April 06, 2023
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
Georgia voters cast their ballots in a U.S. Senate runoff election on Dec. 6, 2022, in Norcross, Ga.

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  • Elections

Georgia lawmakers add to the growing list of bans on outside election funding

Georgia Republicans are set to ban local officials from seeking almost all third-party funding to help cover election costs. It comes as election officials complain about persistent funding needs.

April 05, 2023
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
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