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As ranked choice voting gains momentum, parties in power push back
Voters cast their ballots in Boise, Idaho, during the May 2022 primary. Idaho was one of three states this year that banned the use of ranked choice voting. (Otto Kitsinger for Idaho Capital Sun)Over...
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Courts, state officials hesitate to keep Trump off 2024 ballots
A pro-Trump mob breaks into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images).Some scholars say a little-known, Civil War-era provision in the U.S. Constitution should...
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In face of threats, election workers vow: ‘You are not disrupting the...
Since the 2020 presidential election, state and local election officials nationwide have been bombarded with threats, as lies perpetuated by former President Donald Trump and his allies around “rigged”...
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From flush to faucet: More places look to turn sewage into tap water
Wastewater is forced through microscopic holes in tightly wrapped membranes wound in these fiberglass vessels during the reverse osmosis stage of purification at Orange County’s Groundwater...
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Kids are flooded with social media and news. Some states want to help them...
More students are receiving media literacy education nationwide to combat the spread of social media misinformation and disinformation (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)Young people may be digital natives,...
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Gunfire, screams, carnage: As mass shootings proliferate, training gets more...
Deputies in the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department carry an actor playing a gunshot victim to an ambulance during a January mass casualty simulation (Matt Vasilogambros/Stateline).SAN DIEGO, Calif....
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Feds deliver stark warnings to state election officials ahead of November
Late last month, local governments in Colorado, Missouri and Pennsylvania were hit with ransomware attacks (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images).WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement and cybersecurity...
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Fearing political violence, more states ban firearms at polling places
Over the past several years, national voting rights and gun violence prevention advocates have been sounding the alarm over increased threats around elections, pointing to ballooning disinformation,...
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Cash-strapped election offices have fewer resources after bans on private grants
(Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) This month, Wisconsin joined 27 other states that have banned or restricted local governments’ use of private donations to run cash-strapped election offices, buy voting...
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Election monitors nervously practice for the ‘big dance in November’
Lamont Hart, a voter protection volunteer for the New Georgia Project, waits to speak with voters outside the Cobb County Senior Wellness Center in Marietta, Ga. He was one of many election monitors...
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Why Republican-led states keep leaving a group that verifies voter rolls
the Electronic Registration Information Center, commonly called ERIC, compares voter registration data from participating states with federal death and postal records to help states rid voter rolls of...
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Republican states arm teachers, fortify buildings in another year of school...
Rows of flowers and candles in front of Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis, following the shooting on Oct. 24, 2022 that left two dead and several others wounded (Rebecca...
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Drought hits the Midwest, threatening crops and the world’s food supply
Corn grows at a farm in Belvidere, Ill. Many farmers throughout the Midwest are dealing with the fallout of a drought that has harmed corn and soybean growth. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)City leaders in...
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Cities have ways to curb gun violence; feds are giving them more money
Police in Minneapolis unravel crime scene tape in 2020, a year marked by a stark rise in homicides. Community violence intervention programs offer a data-backed alternative to policing (Brandon...
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In reversal, some states make it harder for people with felony convictions to...
Voters in Minneapolis, Minn., line up to vote during the 2018 midterm elections. Minnesota is one of two states this year that expanded the right to vote to people with felony convictions upon release...
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In small towns, even GOP clerks are targets of election conspiracies
A polling location in Jefferson City the morning of Aug. 6 (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent).PORT AUSTIN, Mich. — Deep in the thumb of Michigan’s mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula, Republican...
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Swing states prepare for a showdown over certifying votes in November
An election observer monitors two poll workers processing absentee ballots in the Milwaukee Election Commission warehouse on Aug. 13. Discrepancies in the count could be used by county canvassing...
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In the tightest states, new voting laws could tip the outcome in November
Voters in Grand Rapids, Mich., cast their ballots during the state’s August primary. LEFT: Michigan was one of the swing states that has greatly expanded voter access since 2020. (Matt...
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‘Firehose’ of election conspiracy theories floods final days of the campaign
Lisa Posthumus Lyons, the Republican clerk for Kent County, Mich., has to remind voters that elections are run by people and mistakes can occur; it doesn’t mean there’s a conspiracy. In the final days...
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Recent safeguards should quash efforts to overturn election results, experts say
Two election observers watch election workers at the Milwaukee Election Commission’s warehouse south of downtown during the August primary. The post-election period in swing states, including...
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Ranked-choice voting faces cloudy future after election setbacks
Ranked-choice voting, which allows voters to rank political candidates by preference, is used statewide in Alaska and Maine and in major U.S. localities such as New York City and San Francisco (Melissa...
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