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Federal agents may have broken state laws in voter fraud hunt, whistleblower claims (opens the original)
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Federal agents may have broken state laws in a wide-ranging hunt for unlawfully registered voters, a federal whistleblower alleges. The anonymous whistleblower is a client of the nonprofit Democracy Defenders Fund, which last week provided a report on the whistleblower's account to Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California. Padilla and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer made the report public Monday. The report details that last month the Department of Homeland Security began surging p
Several states will decide voter ID ballot measures this year (opens the original)
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A Republican-backed election overhaul, which would add proof-of-citizenship and other identification requirements to the voting process, has stalled in Congress. But voters in a number of states are weighing in on some of these same issues this year. Voters in at least six states will decide ballot measures related to voter ID — the largest number of voter ID measures in a single year, per Ballotpedia. Oklahoma was up first, with voters approving its proposal during Tuesday's primary runoff. Tha
Benjamin Swasey (opens the original)
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Ben Swasey is a senior editor on the Washington desk who leads NPR's coverage of voting and election administration. Swasey co-edited a 2023 investigation detailing how conservative pressure drove states to abandon a tool that helps catch voter fraud. That investigation was a finalist for the Peabody Award and the Toner Prize for Excellence in National Political Reporting. In 2025, he co-edited reporting on a controversial Trump administration data system to check U.S. citizenship that was also
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Ben Swasey is a senior editor on the Washington desk who leads NPR's coverage of voting and election administration. Swasey co-edited a 2023 investigation detailing how conservative pressure drove states to abandon a tool that helps catch voter fraud. That investigation was a finalist for the Peabody Award and the Toner Prize for Excellence in National Political Reporting. In 2025, he co-edited reporting on a controversial Trump administration data system to check U.S. citizenship that was also
President Trump cleans house at the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission (opens the original)
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With just months until the midterms, President Trump relieved the remaining members of the bipartisan U.S. Election Assistance Commission, a move that drew swift condemnation from Democrats and voting rights advocates. An association of state election officials sent word out to its members on Thursday about Trump's dismissals, and in a statement, a White House official said the president "reserves the right to remove individuals that may not be totally aligned with the important task of securing
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