Yunior is a breaking news reporter from Brooklyn, New York. He earned his master’s degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where he specialized in local news and data reporting. He is passionate about civic education and engagement.
Before Tuesday, President Donald Trump and the GOP were warning frantically that the presence on Alaska’s ballot of a U.S. Senate candidate with a similar name to that of the GOP incumbent would confuse voters. Trump’s Department of Justice filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent certification over the issue.
California voters rejected Proposition 39 Tuesday, defeating a sweeping Republican-backed constitutional amendment that would have imposed strict new identification requirements on both in-person and mail voting. The measure failed 58.6% to 41.6%, preserving California’s existing system for verifying voters and preventing what voting rights groups warned could have kept eligible voters from having their ballots […]
After months of the Trump administration’s escalating threats against election officials, attempts to interfere with voting and hints about sending law enforcement to polling places, Election Day unfolded largely as elections normally do.
Widespread voting machine failures in New York’s Westchester County are spurring nonsensical claims from prominent right-wing figures that Democrats are somehow scheming to steal the contest — by suppressing votes in a Democratic stronghold.
It isn’t hard to predict: By the time polls close Tuesday, President Donald Trump and his allies will have spread a slew of false and dangerous election conspiracy theories online.
Experts reviewing the Trump administration’s list of nearly 21,000 people it alleges may be noncitizens registered to vote in California say the Department of Justice (DOJ) handed over a stripped-down version of the data that appears different from the file previously sent to state and local election officials.
In a major win for voters, a federal judge Sunday threw out the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) bid to undermine Alaska’s U.S. Senate race through an eleventh-hour lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason, appointed by President Barack Obama, dismissed the Justice Department’s bid to stop Alaska from certifying its U.S. Senate election if the GOP […]
Voting rights groups warned a federal judge that the Trump administration’s effort to intervene in Alaska’s U.S. Senate election rests on a fringe legal theory that could give the president extraordinary power over state-run elections, if accepted by the court.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked a federal judge Friday to force Alaska to preserve and segregate ballots that may have been affected by alleged voter confusion in the state’s U.S. Senate race. The request marks a sharp escalation in DOJ’s extraordinary attempt to interfere in Alaska’s Senate election. In a filing opposing efforts to […]
The Trump administration disclosed Friday that federal officials sent voter-related demands to at least five states ahead of the midterms. But just as significant for Democrats’ lawsuit* seeking to prevent further election interference may be what the government says it left out.
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