voter fraud

Of the 301 bills related to elections that became law in 2021, 117 improved voter access, and 47 restricted it. (The rest were neutral or mixed.) NBCLX storyteller Jalyn Henderson breaks down why voter fraud in the U.S. is not actually a widespread problem and how many states are actually making it easier to vote.

Some Republicans had worried that fraud claims ahead of Tuesday’s election from some party leaders could suppress turnout.

Republican efforts questioning the outcome of the 2020 presidential race have led to voting system breaches that election security experts say pose a heightened risk to future elections.

The Federal Communications Commission proposed a $5.1 million fine against conservative activists for unlawful robocalls that made false claims about mail voting.

Top Georgia elections official Gabriel Sterling told reporters on Wednesday morning that there was no evidence of any fraudulent votes in Tuesday’s Georgia senate runoff elections. Sterling, a Republican, said that the likely Democratic sweep of both seats was a result of President Donald Trump’s mixed messages about the security of the election.

A growing number of Republican lawmakers have joined President Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the election, pledging to reject the results when Congress meets next week to count the Electoral College votes and certify President-elect Joe Biden’s win

Changes to the way millions of Americans voted this year contributed to record turnout, but that’s no guarantee the measures making it easier to cast ballots will stick around for future elections

Wisconsin has finished a recount of its presidential results, confirming Democrat Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump in the key battleground state

President Donald Trump’s campaign has filed plenty of lawsuits in six states as he tries to upend an election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden

Loyalists of President Donald Trump have filed at least 15 legal challenges in Pennsylvania alone in an effort to reclaim the state’s 20 electoral votes

Woman told hotline she had gone down to Georgia and, “I was in line to vote and…this guy challenged me to a fiddle competition”

More than three million voters throughout D.C., Maryland and Virginia have already gotten a mailed ballot, and voters also have the option of voting early in-person. The News4 I-Team asked elections officials how they make sure a voter doesn’t do both. Investigative Reporter Jodie Fleischer shows the protections in place.

In a year that’s seen a surge in absentee ballot requests and the president even encouraging some voters to test the system by illegally voting twice, elections officials across the region say they’re prepared to prevent any effort to cast multiple ballots.   “If you’ve thought of a way that maybe this system could be gamed or cheated, I promise...