Voter turnout at Russian polls – why pay attention

Russian politicians, researchers and reporters all attach great importance to voter turnout. To understand this, RT compares preliminary figures from polling stations to those from other countries and other periods in history. Is there a way to forecast it? The discussion about future turnout started way before the actual presidential campaign, along with attempts to […]

Trump calls for strict voter ID laws, which critics say disenfranchises the poor and minorities

AP Photo/Evan Vucci President Donald Trump gave up on his investigation into voter fraud, and pivoted to pushing voter identification legislation. Civil rights activists say that requiring voters to show identification disenfranchises minorities, the poor, and the elderly. Trump never proved any of his claims about widespread voter fraud. President Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday […]

US court rejects challenge to Trump’s voter fraud commission

An electronic privacy advocacy group is “not a voter” and lacks the standing to sue the Trump administration’s voter fraud commission over the collection of voter data, a federal judge has ruled. Judge Stephen Williams, of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, ruled Tuesday that the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) could not show that […]

‘Battle is not over’: Defeated Moore sets up ‘election integrity fund’ to probe voter fraud claims

Published time: 17 Dec, 2017 16:24 Republican candidate Roy Moore is refusing to concede defeat following his loss to Democrat rival Doug Jones in the race for the vacant Senate seat in Alabama. Moore has reportedly set up an ‘election integrity fund’ to investigate if voter fraud contributed to his loss.  The former state supreme […]

Roy Moore still refuses to concede — and he asked supporters to donate to an ‘election integrity fund’ to find voter fraud

Joe Raedle/Getty Images Former Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore told supporters on Friday that the race is “not over.”  He is collecting donations to investigate incidents of voter fraud.  Despite calls from various GOP leaders, including President Donald Trump, to concede the race to his Democratic opponent Doug Jones, Moore remains defiant.  Former Alabama Senate […]

Researchers warn state system to catch voter fraud has 99% false positive rate

Enlarge / Georgia voters at voting machines during the US presidential election at the Athens-Clarke County Fleet building in Athens, Georgia, on November 8, 2016. (credit: TAMI CHAPPELL/AFP/Getty Images) A database system that will now be used by Indiana to automatically purge voter registrations that have duplicates in other states is 99 percent more likely […]

15 states are refusing to hand over voter data to Trump’s panned election commission — here’s how every state has responded

AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais Fifteen states are refusing to hand over voter data to President Donald Trump’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. States attorneys general who refused balked at the commission’s original request for information including partial Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses and voting history. The commission is tasked with investigating voter […]

An intern at the Trump campaign data firm, Cambridge Analytica, left sensitive voter targeting tools online for nearly a year

AP Photo/Alex Brandon An intern at the data mining and analysis firm Cambridge Analytica left online for nearly a year what appears to be programming instructions for the voter targeting tools the company used around the time of the election, raising questions about who could have accessed the tools and to what end. Social media analyst and […]