Following the 2020 election, it looked like the midterms could create more chaos. But mostly, they didn’t. Why?
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Big Lie Proponents Are Creating Harsh Criminal Penalties for Elections Activity
The proliferation of election crime legislation is the most threatening front in voter suppression efforts in generations.
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How Are Voter Suppression Tactics Affecting You and Your Community? 
Help us understand whether new election rules and threats are keeping people from voting.
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Inside the GOP’s Purge of Local Election Officials in Michigan
Proponents of Trump’s Big Lie have “been able to infiltrate the Republican Party right down to the precinct level in a way that I’ve been astounded by,” says a former GOP head.
Posted inAccountability
Who Has Power and How Do They Wield It?
Three local investigative stories that have big impact, from D.C. police keeping troubled officers on the force to the history of prisoner disenfranchisement laws in Missouri.
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Remembering a White supremacist coup
Reveal looks back to a nearly forgotten 1898 election in North Carolina. A coup d’etat gave birth to much of the structural racism that exists today.
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John Johnson isn’t dead: How claims of voter fraud in Florida fell apart
The Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative nonprofit, has a long history of claiming voter fraud but getting its facts wrong.
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Texas’ voter ID law is confusing voters into disenfranchising themselves
Will it happen again?
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If the US forced people to vote, would it improve turnout?
Some countries where voting is mandatory have higher turnout rates than the U.S., but not by much.
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Ohio voting restrictions hit the elderly and homeless
Voting rights advocates say the laws are part of a decade-long effort that is likely to continue.