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The election office

Threats, conspiracies and political violence: American elections face unprecedented challenges in 2024. These are the stories of the people protecting – and threatening – democracy

12 July 2024

  • Detractors of the new rules say it will likely increase errors in the process of calculating votes.

    How Georgia state election board’s proposed rules make it easier to challenge results

    A new rule would require Fulton county to hand count paper ballots and investigate discrepancies on the spot, possible delaying tabulation

15 June 2024

  • A composite of images showing a two people - a man and a woman over a red background

    Documents detail Republican push to force hand counts in Arizona election

    Supervisors Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd were calling for hand counts in 2022 as election denialism swept Cochise county, a records request shows

4 June 2024

  • Composite image of woman in red suit and ballot box

    Republican who refused to certify Georgia primary a member of election denialist group

    Julie Adams, who abstained from certifying May results, belongs to Election Integrity Network, founded by Trump ally Cleta Mitchell

20 May 2024

  • Abe Dane

    ‘There’s no fraud here’: how a Republican official is addressing election denialism in his rural county

    Abe Dane once had doubts about voting security. His work as an elections administrator changed his view: ‘These are people just like me’

15 May 2024

  • Graphic illustration of middle-aged white man with mostly bald head and red-gray beard, in suit jacket and collared shirt without a tie.

    This county undercounted 4,000 Biden votes in 2020. Now the head of elections is looking to win back trust

    After a tabulation error led to felony charges against his predecessor, Eric Olsen almost quit, but stayed to rebuild trust

3 May 2024

  • A composite image of a woman and a man against a red and blue background.

    ‘Chaos will be created’: Arizona court hears election-subversion case – with eyes on 2024

    Implications of the lawsuit could extend beyond Cochise county, if local officials try similar tactics in November

26 April 2024

  • a woman looks at computer screens

    Election officials in the US are under threat. A key county just faced a major test ahead of November

    Luzerne county, in the battleground state Pennsylvania, has faced high-profile mistakes like discarded ballots, and turnover. Did it pass its primary season test?

18 April 2024

  • Graphic illustration of black-and-white image of white woman with long wavy hair smiling in portrait, surrounded by red, dark blue and light blue images of state seals and voter receipts.

    Exclusive: Georgia lawmaker runs secret election-conspiracy Telegram channel

    Bridget Thorne, a Republican elected in Fulton county in 2022, has spread election fraud lies and accused county employees of crimes

28 March 2024

  • Man in suit sits in front of screen, microphone and name plate

    Rural California county keeps ultra-conservative official who pushed to upend voting system

    Shasta county’s Kevin Crye fought off a recall effort, but another far-right official who pushed election conspiracies lost the race for his seat

23 March 2024

  • A young white woman wearing dark-rimmed glasses is seen looking at two computer monitors at a desk.

    Overworked, underpaid, under attack: on the frontlines in a US election office

    Pennsylvania’s Luzerne county has experienced high-profile mistakes exacerbated by high staff turnover that have been seized on by conspiracy theorists

21 March 2024

  • In the foreground is an American flag table cover, beyond which are two Black women standing at separate, facing voting booths, both wearing basks.

    Will a perfect election in Fulton county make a difference to Republicans?

    Accusations of mismanagement go back decades, but a recent move by two board members bodes poorly for November

19 March 2024

  • Ballot box with American flag and 'vote' sign on it

    California county on edge over bid to recall far-right, election-denying official

    Shasta county residents voted on 5 March on whether to recall Kevin Crye, the president of the board of supervisors

12 February 2024

  • GUARDIAN_ShastaCo<br>Joshua Brown of Shasta speaks during The Shasta County Board of Supervisors Meeting at the Board Chambers in Redding, Calif. on March 28, 2023. The board voted 3-2 during the meeting to proceed with a hand count tally system instead of retaining their Dominion Voting Systems contract for counting ballots.

    ‘An extreme agenda’: could a recall end far-right control of a California county?

    Shasta county removed a moderate supervisor. Two years later, a member of the ultra conservative majority faces a recall of his own

2 December 2023

  • A collage of voting booths and ballots

    Exodus of election officials in one county rings alarm for US democracy

    High turnover in the election office in Luzerne, Pennsylvania, exacerbated human errors, fueling anger and distrust – and is emblematic of a larger crisis facing elections

25 November 2023

  • A collage of ballots, a map, and and older white man with glasses

    ‘The poison continues to spread’: legal losses fail to quell election denial hotbed

    Cochise county, Arizona, has been convulsed by the actions of two Republican supervisors who questioned the integrity of elections and faces huge legal costs

16 November 2023

  • Two-lane road with one white car and one red car driving in opposite directions, with a pretty cream-colored bush in the foreground and a brown church across the street.

    The California county where far-right officials tried to upend voting

    Fears of election night unrest arose amid dispute with ultra-conservatives who insisted county use hand-count system for ‘election integrity’

10 November 2023

  • A photo of a Randy Johnson, the Adams township supervisor.

    The rural Michigan town fighting against rightwing conspiracy theories

    A conspiracy theory-touting clerk and far-right supervisor were ousted in Adams Township – but new officials face issues as the 2024 elections loom
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