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2 weeks ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Yvonne Sanchez |Patrick Marley
Judge deals blow to Arizona case over 2020 Republican electors (washingtonpost.com) Judge deals blow to Arizona case over 2020 Republican electors By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez; Patrick Marley 2025051916343000 An Arizona judge has ordered state prosecutors to send back to a grand jury a case in which Republicans were charged last year for their alleged roles in trying to overturn the 2020 election, potentially jeopardizing the high-profile indictments.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Patrick Marley |Yvonne Sanchez
Texas AG says judge, other officials arrested for ‘vote harvesting’ crimes (washingtonpost.com) Texas AG says judge, other officials arrested for ‘vote harvesting’ crimes By Mariana Alfaro; Patrick Marley; Yvonne Wingett Sanchez 2025050803084300 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Wednesday said six individuals — including a county judge and a former elections administrator — were indicted and arrested for what Paxton described as a fraudulent "vote-harvesting scheme" in the state's Frio...
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1 month ago | 
southfloridareporter.com | Patrick Marley |Yvonne Sanchez
President Donald Trump's plan to overhaul elections could hurl 2026 into turmoil by forcing states to hand-count ballots or scramble to spend millions of dollars on voting systems that aren't yet on the market, according to election officials and voting experts. If put into effect, his recent executive order attempting to transform elections could make it impossible for some states to use voting machines, election experts said.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Patrick Marley |Yvonne Sanchez
Trump’s order seeks to force states to buy costly new voting machines (washingtonpost.com) Trump’s order seeks to force states to buy costly new voting machines By Patrick Marley; Yvonne Wingett Sanchez 2025041310004400 President Donald Trump's plan to overhaul elections could hurl 2026 into turmoil by forcing states to hand-count ballots or scramble to spend millions of dollars on voting systems that aren't yet on the market, according to election officials and voting experts. If put into...
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1 month ago | 
detroitnews.com | Sarah Ellison |Yvonne Sanchez
Kari Lake, senior adviser to the parent agencyof Voice of America, is set to be detailed to the State Department, a move that could thwart her ambition of transforming U.S.-backed news content worldwide, according to two people with knowledge of the move who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share internal decisions.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Sarah Ellison |Yvonne Sanchez
Kari Lake to be detailed to State Department to dismantle VOA parent agency (washingtonpost.com) Kari Lake to be detailed to State Department to dismantle VOA parent agency By Sarah Ellison; Yvonne Wingett Sanchez 2025040909003600 Kari Lake, senior adviser to the parent agency of Voice of America, is set to be detailed to the State Department, a move that could thwart her ambition of transforming U.S.-backed news content worldwide, according to two people with knowledge of the move who spoke...
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2 months ago | 
postguam.com | Patrick Marley |Yvonne Sanchez
Channeling Elon Musk, Republicans are vowing to bring the billionaire’s federal cost-cutting tactics to more than a dozen state governments and are borrowing branding from his Department of Government Efficiency. In North Carolina, Republicans used their DOGE committee to grill appointees of Gov. Josh Stein, D, about diversity programs. GOP lawmakers in Kansas and Missouri set up online portals where residents can report waste and submit efficiency ideas. Iowa Gov.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
detroitnews.com | Colby Itkowitz |Yvonne Sanchez |Olivia George
POLITICSColby Itkowitz, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Olivia GeorgeWashington PostView Comments President Donald Trump is taking aim at federal offices that investigate government malfeasance and protect workers from retribution, summarily firing and replacing five top ethics officials this week in an apparent attempt to consolidate his power over the sprawling federal bureaucracy.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
unionleader.com | Patrick Marley |Yvonne Sanchez
In the months before last year’s election, Alabama removed valid voters from the rolls after wrongly tagging them as noncitizens. Tennessee’s secretary of state told 14,000 voters they had to prove their citizenship. And officials debated whether hundreds of thousands of Arizonans could vote in state races after they discovered they were missing citizenship documentation. More episodes like those are likely to lie ahead throughout the country.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
adn.com | Maria Sacchetti |Yvonne Sanchez
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem has decided to end temporary humanitarian protections for approximately 350,000 Venezuelans who sought refuge in the United States in the last few years, putting them at imminent risk of being forced to return to the autocratic regime they left behind in South America.
