North Carolina elections chief pushes back on Trump’s illegal voting scheme
Karen Brinson Bell said that Trump himself may have broken state law on Wednesday.
By Emily Singer - September 03, 2020Karen Brinson Bell said that Trump himself may have broken state law on Wednesday.
By Emily Singer - September 03, 2020Jordan sought to defend Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s changes to the Postal Service, which could cause voters to be disenfranchised.
By Emily Singer - August 24, 2020Louis DeJoy will testify Friday about the slow down in mail delivery that could impact the 2020 election.
By Associated Press - August 21, 2020Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced he is pausing changes at the Postal Service to ‘avoid even the appearance’ of impacting the election.
By Emily Singer - August 18, 2020Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s comments come one day after it was revealed Trump and his wife had requested absentee ballots for the upcoming election.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 14, 2020Trump said in March that ‘if you ever agreed to it you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.’
By Emily Singer - August 13, 2020Barbara Cegavske is defending a new law that would send mail-in ballots to all active voters in the state.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 11, 2020‘Congress’s failure to reach a coronavirus deal is imperiling November’s elections.’
By Associated Press - August 11, 2020Also: Racism is recognized as a public health crisis in Michigan, and residents of Nevada will have an easier time voting in November.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 07, 2020Louis DeJoy was reported to be planning to slow mail delivery and reduce overtime for postal employees.
By Josh Israel - August 06, 2020Trump supports voting by mail in Florida, where the governor is one of his top Republican allies.
By Oliver Willis - August 05, 2020Trump has falsely claimed for months that mail-in voting is rife with fraud.
By Josh Israel - August 04, 2020Donald Trump is mad that the state’s elected legislature passed a bill to make it easier to vote by mail during the pandemic.
By Josh Israel - August 03, 2020Donald Trump continues to insist that they aren’t.
By Oliver Willis - July 31, 2020State election officials in some key battleground states have warned that it might take days to count the votes.
By Associated Press - July 31, 2020Donald Trump is now saying the Postal Service cannot handle mail-in balloting.
By Josh Israel - July 30, 2020Trump has persistently theorized about rigged elections and never supported those theories with facts.
By Associated Press - July 30, 2020Few Republicans have spoken out, but the ones who have say the election will not be moved — despite Trump’s claims.
By Emily Singer - July 30, 2020Trump falsely said voting by mail is ‘fraudulent’ and that the election should be postponed until people can ‘properly’ vote.
By Emily Singer - July 30, 2020Trump is concocting a false conspiracy as both Democrats and Republicans push vote-by-mail to prevent further spread of coronavirus.
By Emily Singer - June 22, 2020Trump’s incorrect claim that mail-in voting leads to fraud is hampering GOP efforts in the state.
By Emily Singer - May 29, 2020Despite the global pandemic, Kellyanne Conway questioned why Democrats are supporting mail-in voting.
By Oliver Willis - May 27, 2020As the coronavirus death toll neared 100,000, Trump spent the holiday weekend focused on his grievances.
By Emily Singer - May 26, 2020The decision to delay an election is not up to Kushner, nor the White House.
By Emily Singer - May 13, 2020Ohio’s vote is being closely watched as a case study for how to proceed with elections if the pandemic doesn’t ease.
By Associated Press - April 28, 2020Also: Local governments work to ensure everyone can vote by mail, and Texas Democrats innovate to make voter registration easier.
By Josh Israel - April 24, 2020The state said it would mail ballot applications to every eligible voter.
By Associated Press - April 24, 2020Former Vice President Joe Biden said Congress should provide funding to ensure every American can vote by mail in November.
By Associated Press - April 24, 2020The new ‘SafeVote’ effort will help people cast a ballot while avoiding the dangers they experienced during the primary.
By Emily Singer - April 22, 2020A new poll shows 58% of registered voters support letting people vote from home during the pandemic.
By Josh Israel - April 21, 2020