@JenAFifield

ProPublica reporter covering voting, elections and democracy. Former @votebeatUS @azcentral @stateline_news @frednewspost. Tips: DMs open/ Signal jenafifield.01

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Exclusive: Earlier this month, the Supreme Court blocked an executive order restricting voting by mail in ways that could have thrown the upcoming midterms into chaos. But the White House originally had far more disruptive plans, ProPublica has learned. 🧵
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Nathaniel Rakich@baseballotOct 23
At this time of year, there's a lot of social-media chatter about voting machines flipping votes. They're not. Here's what's really happening: apnews.com/article/vote-flip…

Why reported challenges with touchscreen voting machines don't signal election rigging

Reports of touchscreen voting machines selecting the wrong candidate have been surfacing on social media, as they have during previous election years.

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guys that means like.... now.
Jen Fifield@JenAFifieldOct 22
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Postal Service leaders have also been emphasizing that voters should put their ballot in the mail more than a week before their states' deadline.
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Fantastic read. Important story.
Hayley Harding@Hayley__HardingOct 22
I'd like to tell you a story about Michigan's elections that started in 2020 — maybe even earlier — and continues on to today. This is the story of Antrim County Clerk Victoria Bishop.
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At an election science conference I went to in June, a panel was lit up by claims that USPS delays in primaries were causing more ballots to arrive late. Someone asked: Has anyone done research yet to see if USPS changes are tied to ballot rejections? So @propublica did. 🧵
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Postal Service leaders have also been emphasizing that voters should put their ballot in the mail more than a week before their states' deadline.
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Election consultants, researchers and former Postal Service officials say they hope the agency’s special measures will limit delays, but some said mistakes were likely. “It isn’t a question of ‘if,’" ballots will be rejected, one said, "but a question of ‘how many.'”
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Taniel@TanielOct 22
USPS has instituted new policies of delaying postmarking of mail ballot and delivery. ProPublica shows this has led more people's votes to be tossed, *&* that this is affecting disproportionately rural (red) counties with worse service to begin with. propublica.org/article/mail-…

Ballot Rejections Soared in Rural Counties After USPS Reduced Mail Service

A ProPublica data analysis shows that delays resulting from the agency’s cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots mailed in rural areas. Counties that voted for Trump in 2024...

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Visual representation of the judges that have shut down the Trump administration's demands for confidential voter data. DOJ is 0 - 26, with four pending. Eight of the judges were appointed by Trump. via @peterelkind and Lucas Waldron @propublica. 🔗 in thread.
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Scroll through timeline to see how judges - many appointed by Trump - eviscerated Trump's DOJ voter roll lawsuits, even as DOJ's argument for demanding the voter rolls changed over time: projects.propublica.org/trum…

How Judges Eviscerated Trump’s DOJ Voter Data Lawsuits — ProPublica

Over the past year, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has sued 30 states and Washington, D.C., to demand their unredacted voter rolls. The vast majority of cases have been thrown out.

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In NV, DOJ said it found 16K noncitizen voters. When NV asked for a list, DOJ sent 185. NV checked those and found all of them were actually citizens. In CA, DOJ first said it found 190K noncitizen voters. Now, it says 20K. Told CA officials they had 48 hours to check, then sued
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@TheJusticeDeptOct 16
.@USAttyEssayli for @USAO_LosAngeles to @FoxNews on the complaint against California over its voter list: “When we're telling them you have 20,000 non-citizens on the voter rolls, you're going to be diluting the votes of American citizens. Their response is, ‘It's too late; we already mailed the ballots.’ That's not how the law works, and we're going to go to court. This is a matter of law…All we are asking them to do is sequester the ballots.”
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Our story uncovered the methods that DHS is using to try to identify noncitizen voters using public voter rolls, which insiders warned would produce an "ungodly" number of false positives: propublica.org/article/nonci…

Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters

To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So...

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Stephanie Duprey@StephDoupsOct 16
#breaking Arizona capital executive Tower evacuated. FBI and Hazmat on scene. Secretary of State Adrian Fontes says a letter with white substance was received and opened by a staff member. No one hurt @azfamily
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Nathaniel Rakich@baseballotOct 15
Breaking: More than 100 suspicious letters were sent to state election officials and other election-adjacent people (including a pollster) across the country. votebeat.org/national/2026/1…

Suspicious letters sent to election officials weeks before 2026 midterms

Election officials nationwide are confirming they were sent suspicious letters, some of which contained an “unknown substance,” at a time when officials are increasingly subject to physical threats.

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@propublicaOct 14
The Tohono O’odham Nation straddles the U.S.-Mexico border, and thousands of members live in Mexico. The Trump administration’s 62-mile border wall would be an attack on tribal sovereignty, members and leaders say. propublica.org/article/tohon…

As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and...

For decades, the Tohono O’odham Nation collaborated with DHS to stave off a border wall. Despite their cooperation, the Trump administration is barreling forward with a project that would divide...

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