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How Congress Stopped Working
by Derek Willis, ProPublica, and Paul Kane, The Washington Post For more than 200 years, Congress operated largely as the country’s founders envisioned — forging compromises on the biggest issues of...
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Handwriting Disputes Cause Headaches for Some Absentee Voters
by Susie Armitage for ProPublica Elisabeth Warner drove 12 hours the weekend before Election Day so her daughter could vote. Her daughter, Emma Warner-Mesnard, 20, attends Transylvania University in...
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Georgia Officials Quietly Patched Security Holes They Said Didn’t Exist
by Jack Gillum, Jessica Huseman, Mike Tigas and Jeff Kao, ProPublica; and Stephen Fowler, Georgia Public Broadcasting On Sunday morning, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp unleashed a stunning...
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Our Electionland Project Is Tracking Voting Problems — and Getting Results
by Blake Paterson, ProPublica, and Maya Miller for ProPublica On Tuesday, more than 250 reporters from over 125 newsrooms will be working together toward one goal. We are all part of Electionland, a...
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A Mysterious Facebook Group Is Using Bernie Sanders’ Image to Urge Democrats...
by Jeremy B. Merrill, ProPublica, William Turton, VICE News A Facebook page for a group called “America Progress Now” is running ads online urging progressives to vote for Green Party candidates in...
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Early Voting Brought a Surge of Voters. What Will Election Day Bring?
by Blake Paterson, ProPublica, and Maya Miller for ProPublica During three weeks of early voting, many of the problems Electionland has identified have been driven by higher-than-expected turnout....
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How the Election Assistance Commission Came Not to Care So Much About...
by Jessica Huseman In a rush of preparation for this year’s midterm elections, scores of state and local governments have been working to safeguard their election systems from being hacked or...
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Chicago Considers Wiping Away Old Ticket Debt for Motorists Who File for...
by Melissa Sanchez The Chicago City Council’s finance committee approved a measure Monday that would forgive ticket debt for some city motorists, but only those who file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The...
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Illinois DCFS Agrees to Outside Inquiry at Psychiatric Hospital Where...
by Duaa Eldeib The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services agreed Monday to a full, independent assessment involving children in its care placed at a Chicago psychiatric hospital rocked by...
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Indiana Police Officer Before Punching Handcuffed Man: “If You Spit Again,...
by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica The mayor of Elkhart, Indiana, said Monday “in hindsight” his police chief should have handed down more severe punishment than...
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Sloppy Start on Election Day
One of Downtown Brooklyn’s most-active voting sites opened 40 minutes late, a problem exacerbated by the fact that New York state’s voter lookup site was down for about 20 minutes around the same time.
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Texas County Faces Long Lines, Technical Difficulties as Voting Begins
Voters in Harris County are seeing long lines at multiple polling locations because of problems with check-in technology and voting machines.
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Oops, We Forgot to Plug In the Voting Machine
by Blake Paterson and Jessica Huseman Polls have barely opened on the East Coast, and voting machines — and people — are already causing a few foul-ups. Experts say that the errors are normal, and...
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Delayed Starts, Missing Ballots, Vandalism at Polling Places in Baltimore
At least three polling locations around the city experienced hiccups as polls opened Tuesday morning.
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Polling Location in Somerset County, New Jersey, Opens Late
Voters waited more than an hour for a polling place at Quail Brook Senior Center in Franklin Township to open this morning.
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Kansas and Missouri Voters Report Broken Voting Machines, ID Issues
Voters in the Kansas City area have encountered problems voting this morning, particularly around the issue of valid voter ID.
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Malfunctions of Voting Machines in Detroit Area Delay Voting
Voters encountered delays due to machines that “froze” or shut down in some way. At least one lost battery power before being restored.
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Humidity to Blame for Some North Carolina Ballot Scanners Not Working
State election officials said that humid conditions in Wake County and other locations have led to machine malfunctions, but that ballots would be counted.
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Ballot Scanner Issues in Brooklyn Lead to Long Lines
Issues with ballot scanners at a number of polling locations across Brooklyn Tuesday morning led to long lines and confusion.
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Confusion Over Voter ID Requirement Contributes to Missouri Lines
A judge’s decision two weeks ago allows voters to show something other than a photo ID, but not all poll workers have gotten the message.
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