Prosecutors link LA contract to Smartmatic 'slush fund' as voting tech firm battles Fox in court
President Donald Trump and other Republicans have long criticized states that take weeks to count their ballots after Election Day.
President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to overhaul how U.S. elections are run includes a somewhat obscure reference to the way votes are counted.
President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order seeking to change how elections are run in the U.S. is creating uncertainty for state and local election officials and worries about voter confusion before the next federal election, the 2026 midterms.
President Donald Trump's administration has disbanded an FBI task force focused on investigating foreign influence campaigns and placed on leave several election security employees at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency.
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Voters wait on line at a polling station at the University of Southern California on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Some California voters are waiting in long lines because of technical glitches connecting to the statewide voter database or too many users trying to cast ballots at once. In the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles, predictions of problems with a $300 million election system proved prescient, with malfunctions causing frustration and confusion. Jimmy Huber, 22, of Whittier, who waited about 90 minutes to vote, said there weren’t enough workers checking in voters. The city of 35,000 sued the county, calling the new voting system interface severely flawed.
