The Georgia secretary of state is running in a tight primary against an election denier endorsed by the former president.
Author: Amy Gardner
Nonprofit pledges $80 million for local election administration
Tiana Epps-Johnson, who leads the Center for Tech and Civic Life, said the new U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence would send $80 million in the next five years to election departments across the United States in need of basic funding for equipment r…
A Texas county didn’t count 10,000 ballots. Now the parties are at war over who’s to blame.
After elections officials in Harris County, Tex., admitted they failed to count 10,000 mail-in ballots in the March 1 primary, Democrats and Republicans have gone to war over who is to blame for a litany of elections shortfalls in the nation’s third-mo…
Rejected mail ballots, confused voters: Texas’s restrictive new law casts shadow over primary
Democrats and voting rights advocates predicted for months that Senate Bill 1, as the new law is known, would make it harder for some Texans to vote and for election officials to do their jobs. Tuesday’s primary made clear that, in some respects, those…
Texas counties reject unprecedented numbers of mail ballots ahead of March 1 primary under restrictive new law
Thousands of early ballots have been rejected because voters did not meet a new requirement to provide an identification number inside the return envelope.
Inside the nonstop pressure campaign by Trump allies to get election officials to revisit the 2020 vote
Well-funded allies of the former president have gained audiences with top state officials to push for examinations of the vote, and local residents have bombarded election administrators with their own demands to investigate.
It’s official: Perdue to challenge Kemp for Ga. governor, ensuring divisive GOP primary
“Look, I like Brian,” Perdue said in a video released Monday morning. “This isn’t personal. It’s simple. He has failed all of us and cannot win in November.”
Trump allies work to place supporters in key election posts across the country, spurring fears about future vote challenges
If they succeed, the former president and his backers could pull down some of the guardrails that prevented him from overturning President Biden’s victory, critics say.
Ohio county commissioner denies knowledge of attempted breach of local election network
John Hamercheck, president of the Lake County Board of Commissioners, spoke publicly for the first time about an incident that occurred inside his government office during the spring primary.
Attempted breach of Ohio county election network draws FBI and state scrutiny
The incident, in which a private laptop was plugged into the government computer network inside the office of a Lake County commissioner, came the same month as a similar event in Mesa County, Colo., which is also under FBI investigation.