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Nov 22, 2024 | 
pressherald.com | Amy Gardner |Josh Dawsey |Ashley Parker |Perry Stein
President-elect Donald Trump plans to fire the entire team that worked with special counsel Jack Smith to pursue two federal prosecutions against the former president, including career attorneys typically protected from political retribution, according to two individuals close to Trump’s transition. Trump is also planning to assemble investigative teams within the Justice Department to hunt for evidence in battleground states that fraud tainted the 2020 election, one of the people said.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
msn.com | Joseph Menn |Amy Gardner |Perry Stein
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Amy Gardner |Joseph Menn |Perry Stein
Russia is behind a series of false bomb threats in Georgia and other states that briefly closed polling stations Tuesday, an escalation in tactics aimed at sowing fear and suppressing votes, federal and local officials said. “The FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains,” the agency said in a statement.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
pressherald.com | Amy Gardner |Colby Itkowitz
Hurricane Helene’s destructive path across western North Carolina threatens to upend the fall election in the key battleground, with halted mail service disrupting absentee voting, thousands of voters cut off from polling locations and election administrators scrambling to adjust.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
spokesman.com | Hannah Knowles |Amy Gardner
A porn site user linked to North Carolina gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson praised Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf” in addition to declaring himself a “black NAZI,” according to screenshots obtained by the Washington Post. The user’s posts on porn forum Nude Africa vanished Thursday, the same day that CNN reported on the many ways the account resembled Robinson. A person with access to the site before their deletion provided the Post with screenshots.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
pressherald.com | Amy Gardner
LAGRANGE, Ga. – The Georgia State Election Board is expected to vote on a measure to force counties to hand-count all ballots this year, a requirement that could delay reporting of results by weeks if not months and that critics say is designed to inject chaos and uncertainty into the presidential contest in a vitally important swing state.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Amy Gardner |Sarah Ellison |Clara Ence Morse
The chairman of the board of elections in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, was well acquainted with the regular attendees at his monthly meetings who peddled old,debunked voting conspiracy theories. But something changed after April 4, the chairman,Neil Makhija, explained in an interview. That was the day Elon Musk retweeted a false claim that as many as 2 million noncitizens had been registered to vote in Texas, Arizona and Pennsylvania.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
pressherald.com | Amy Gardner |Isaac Arnsdorf
The Republican National Committee has expanded legal challenges to voting and election procedures in key swing states since March, when presumptive nominee Donald Trump installed new party leaders with a mandate to pursue his unsubstantiated claims of widespread cheating. In Arizona, Michigan and Nevada, Republicans are seeking to force election officials to remove voters from the rolls, despite federal law limiting such actions in the months preceding an election.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Amy Gardner |Colby Itkowitz |Nicole Markus
The thousands of delegates descending on Chicago for the Democratic National Convention next month have the power to choose their party’s nominee for president — at least in theory. In practice, however, party delegates haven’t exercised independent authority in more than half a century.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
unionleader.com | Colby Itkowitz |Amy Gardner
After President Joe Biden’s halting debate performance Thursday against former President Donald Trump, Democrats found themselves asking an uncomfortable question: Is it too late to replace him on the ticket? The simple answer is no — but to do so, it’s likely that he would first have to agree to step aside. There was no indication on Friday that he was planning to do so, though some Democratic strategists and officeholders have quietly said it’s a conversation the party will have to have.
