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Voting machines are shown at Hillsborough County supervisor of elections office

Nation Aug 23

Does Trump have the power to end mail-in voting? Legal scholar weighs in

By John Yang, Harry Zahn

Politics Aug 18

FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a rally in Mosinee
Fact-checking Trump’s claim the U.S. is the ‘only country’ that uses mail-in voting

President Donald Trump vowed to take action against voting by mail, which he said makes the United States an outlier.

By Amy Sherman, PolitiFact

Politics Nov 02

Allegheny County Elections Warehouse in Pittsburgh
Rejecting GOP plea, Supreme Court lets Pennsylvania count contested provisional ballots

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania as the presidential campaigns vie in the final days before the election in the nation’s biggest battleground…

By Mike Catalini, Michael Rubinkam, Marc Levy, Associated Press

Politics Sep 25

Voters head to polling stations to vote in the Presidential Primary election in Wisconsin
Election rules are changing in several states, even with voting set to begin

It can be a challenge to keep track of these 11th-hour changes, so here's a quick guide.

By Ali Swenson, Associated Press

Nation Jul 21

Residents vote "On Demand' in Pennsylvania
Watch 5:19
A look ahead at election laws as the Democratic Party picks a new nominee

Democratic Party officials will now have to negotiate state election laws, just six weeks from when the first mail-in ballots go out to voters in North Carolina. For more, John Yang speaks with Rick Hasen, a professor at UCLA Law…

By John Yang

Oct 27

It’s normal not to know the official results on election night. Here’s why

By Christina A. Cassidy, Associated Press

In 2020, Trump proclaimed that the lack of final results on election night was an indicator of something nefarious. He used it to assert without evidence that the election was stolen. In reality, results released on election night are unofficial…

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Aug 02

Pennsylvania Supreme Court upholds state’s 2019 mail-in voting expansion

By Mark Scolforo, Marc Levy, Associated Press

A wide expansion of mail-in voting in Pennsylvania has survived a legal challenge brought by some of the same Republican state representatives who voted for the legislation nearly three years ago.

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May 17

Printing error affects mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania county

By Geoff Mulvihill, Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press

Officials in Lancaster County say a commercial printer sent ballots to voters containing a code that makes them unreadable by scanning machines.

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Mar 17

WATCH: House holds hearing on ensuring free and fair access to voting in Texas

By Associated Press

Texas threw out mail votes at an abnormally high rate during the nation's first primary of 2022, rejecting nearly 23,000 ballots outright under tougher voting rules that are part of a broad campaign by Republicans to reshape American elections.

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Mar 16

Texas mail-in ballot rejections soar under new restrictions

By Paul J. Weber, Associated Press, Acacia Coronado, Associated Press/Report for America

Final figures from Texas' primary election earlier this month show nearly 23,000 mail ballots in all were discarded and not counted.

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