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Byline: Kira Lerner Several prominent Republican candidates who denied the results of the 2020 election lost their races on Tuesday, but other critical races featuring election deniers have not been [...]

Byline: Kira Lerner A close ally of Republican Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano has a plan that she claims will help win him the election and prevent voter fraud: She [...]

Byline: Kira Lerner Joey Gilbert, a Reno-based attorney, lost the GOP primary for Nevada governor by roughly 26,000 votes in June, a margin of around 11 points. But he wasn't [...]

Byline: Kira Lerner Nye County, a rural enclave in Nevada, has positioned itself as the epicenter of a Donald Trump-fueled conspiracy about the security of electronic vote tabulators. The Nye [...]

Byline: Kira Lerner Adrian Fontes is tired of responding to the outrageous claims of Mark Finchem, a Trump-backed Republican election denier with ties to QAnon. Fontes faces Finchem on the [...]

Byline: Kira Lerner Republican candidates who claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump have been nominated for governor in four critical swing states, raising concerns that if [...]

Byline: Kira Lerner Colorado's election officials, like so many across the country, faced a surge of violent threats after the 2020 election. Federal authorities are prosecuting a man who pled [...]

Byline: Kira Lerner WASHINGTON -- Democrats on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday explored how to combat violent threats lodged against election officials, while Republicans questioned why the Department [...]

Byline: Kira Lerner State election officials warn that the next few election cycles will be affected by paper shortages and the potential internal threats. (Photo by Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch) [...]

Byline: Kira Lerner Second in a two-part series. See part one here. Since the 2020 election, Iowa has enacted one new felony and two new misdemeanor offenses targeting election officials. [...]

Byline: Kira Lerner A voting line stretches out of a building at the West Gray Multi-Service Center in Houston on March 1, 2022 (Photo by Kira Lerner of States Newsroom). [...]

Byline: Kira Lerner Washington, D.C.'s Central Detention Facility. (Google street view) This article is published through a collaboration between States Newsroom and Bolts. WASHINGTON -- Earlier this month, about 10 [...]