Christina A. Cassidy

FILE – A billboard urges drivers to vote on Election Day in Union City, Calif., Nov. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Trump and GOP target ballots arriving after Election Day that delay counts and feed conspiracy fears

July 6, 2025 at 3:10 p.m.

Part of Trump’s executive order on elections, signed in March but held up by lawsuits, takes aim at one of the main reasons for late vote counts: Many states allow...

FILE – Voters check in to cast ballots in the New Hampshire presidential primary at a polling site in Derry, N.H., Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Republican push for proof of citizenship to vote proves a tough sell in the states

June 3, 2025 at 8:37 a.m.

President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have made it a priority this year to require people to prove citizenship before they can register to vote. Turning that aspiration into reality...

People cast their votes on Election Day at Jewel Middle School on April 1, 2025, in North Aurora. (Audrey Richardson/Chicago Tribune)

Illinois joins 18 other states suing to block President Trump’s election order, saying it violates the Constitution

April 3, 2025 at 5:55 p.m.

Democratic officials in Illinois and 18 other states filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Donald Trump's attempt to reshape elections across the U.S., calling it an unconstitutional invasion of states'...

Christopher Prue, president of the Registrars of Voters Association of Connecticut, right, moves new voting tabulators out of his office at the Registrars of Voters to be redistributed to other towns, Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Vernon, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

President Trump’s election order creates much confusion before the next federal election in 2026

March 29, 2025 at 3:19 p.m.

Election officials were already dealing with the loss of some cybersecurity assistance from the federal government and now face the potential for major changes.

A sign for new voter registration is seen outside a polling location at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, N.H., Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha)

Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship

March 25, 2025 at 6:04 p.m.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive action to overhaul elections in the U.S., including requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.

FILE – President Jimmy Carter meets with Zimbabwe Prime Minister Robert Mugabe in the Oval Office in Washington, on Aug. 27, 1980. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma, File)

Jimmy Carter sought to expand democracy worldwide long after he left the White House

December 31, 2024 at 2:49 p.m.

Established in 1982, two years after Jimmy Carter lost his bid for a second term, the Carter Center has been the former president's signature effort to promote fair elections as...

People stand in line during the last day of early voting, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Bomb threats in swing states disrupt a mostly smooth Election Day

November 6, 2024 at 12:54 a.m.

A series of bomb threats across multiple battleground states and baseless claims of wrongdoing by former President Donald Trump disrupted an otherwise smooth Election Day that capped a tumultuous presidential campaign.

A new ballot drop box is unloaded on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Portland, Ore. The Portland Police Bureau reported that officers and firefighters responded to a fire in one ballot drop box on Monday morning. (AP Photo/Claire Rush)

Ballot drop box fires rekindle concerns that election conspiracy theories are making them a target

October 29, 2024 at 5:14 p.m.

Two ballot drop boxes in the Pacific Northwest were damaged in a suspected arson attack just over a week before Election Day, destroying hundreds of ballots at one location in...

A polling judge, right, helps guide a voter's ballot into a voting machine during the Pennsylvania primary election, at Mont Alto United Methodist Church in Alto, Pa., on May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Are voting machines secure? Are voting machines connected to the internet? Here’s what to know.

October 28, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Election officials have been pushing back on the attacks on voting machines by explaining the layers of protection that surround voting systems and the measures they have in place to...

Director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Jen Easterly speaks to The Associated Press in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Cybersecurity head says there’s no chance a foreign adversary can change US election results

October 2, 2024 at 6:01 p.m.

Nearly a month out from Election Day, the head of the nation’s cybersecurity agency is forcefully reassuring Americans who have been swept into the chaotic churn of election disinformation and...

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