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1.5% of all absentee/mail-in ballots were rejected in 2022

Voters cast 36,683,450 absentee/mail-in ballots in the 2022 general election. Of that total 549,824—or 1.5%—were rejected, roughly equal to the 1.4% rejection rate in 2018, the most recent midterm election, and up from the 1.0% and 0.8% rejection rates in the 2016 and 2020 presidential election cycles, respectively.

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Death threats, harassment and a poisoned dog: 2024 election workers already are scared

Election workers across 22 different states told NPR they've received threats or felt unsafe doing their jobs, and many are worried for what the 2024 presidential election will bring.

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Almost half of midterm voters cast ballots early or by mail

Almost half of all voters in the 2022 midterm elections cast their ballots before Election Day either by mail or through early voting, with Asian and Hispanic voters leading the way

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Commentary: The dark undertones of conservative Peter Thiel’s growing political donations

Since 1997, billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist Peter Thiel has donated tens of millions of dollars to political candidates and causes in U.S. elections, the nonpartisan nonprofit Open Secrets revealed. In the 2022 midterm elections alone, he donated around $32.5 million to the Senate campaigns and political…

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Commentary: Gen Z women will save our democracy

Young people and women are the key to saving democracy. That’s the takeaway from the 2022 midterm elections and what we can expect looking toward the 2024 presidential race. These groups are demanding change on critical issues including reproductive choice, student debt, the climate crisis and more. While this is…

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Walker campaign staffer lawsuit says GOP activist groped him

A staffer on Herschel Walker's Republican Senate campaign has filed a lawsuit against prominent conservative activist Matt Schlapp, accusing Schlapp of groping him during a car ride in Georgia before last year’s midterm election

The Independent UK

Analysis: Biden’s winning streak hit by classified documents probe

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden began the year with a surge of political momentum, propelled by better-than-expected midterm election results and Republican disarray.

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How House Republicans will investigate Biden after Democrats probed Trump

WASHINGTON — The new Republican majority in the U.S. House is readying a fusillade of investigations into President Joe Biden, his family and his administration, upholding a key promise of the midterm election campaigns following Democratic-led inquiries of former President Donald Trump.

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Head of Florida Democrats resigns after disastrous midterms

The head of the Florida Democratic Party has resigned after a disastrous midterm election in the onetime battleground state

The Independent UK

States target transgender health care in first bills of 2023

Republican state lawmakers are following up a midterm election and record flow of anti-transgender legislation last year by zeroing in on bodily autonomy with proposals to limit gender-affirming health care and abortion access

The Independent UK

A record-breaking number of women were elected governor in 2022 – here are 7 things to know about how that happened

Twelve women won a governor’s office in the November 2022 midterm election. Those 12 represent a record number of women governors, more than one-quarter of the 46 women who have ever served as governor since 1974.

The Conversation

Here are intriguing political questions that will be answered in 2023

DALLAS — The year after a midterm election is one of the most important times on the political calendar.

Tribune News Service

Rejections of Texans’ mail ballots decline markedly from big surge in March primary

AUSTIN, Texas — County election administrators and their state counterparts are celebrating how they reduced last winter’s towering rejection rate for mail ballots by 78% in last month’s midterm election.

Tribune News Service

These young Republicans want the GOP to invest in Gen Z, but it's an uphill battle

Young conservative leaders are demanding changes from their party after a majority of Millennial and Generation Z voters turned out for Democrats in the midterm elections.

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FTX political contributions flowed to Texans in both parties in 2022 midterm elections

WASHINGTON — Two super PACs associated with disgraced cryptocurrency tycoon Samuel Bankman-Fried pumped more than $2.7 million into a Dallas congressional race, helping Democrat Jasmine Crockett top a crowded primary field and coast to election last month.

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Commentary: Why the GOP’s ‘tough on crime’ ads failed

The ads were dark and ominous: grainy footage with a message that screams “you are not safe.” You likely know exactly which ads I’m talking about because the Republican party spent more than $150 million on these ads this midterm election cycle.

Los Angeles Times

They beat election deniers in the midterm elections. Now they're gearing up for 2024

Arizona's Democratic Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs faced a flurry of criticism in the days leading up to last month's election.

Fortune

Gen Z's voting habits are all the proof companies need to act on societal issues

Without the Gen Z vote, the results of the U.S. midterm elections would look very different.

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Georgia run-off election set to determine composition of US Senate

In the US state of Georgia, Democrat Senator Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker are face to face in a run-off on Tuesday, bringing the 2022 midterm elections to a close. After losing majority in the House of Representatives, the Democrats are hoping to improve their majority in the…

The Independent UK

Arizona certifies 2022 election despite GOP complaints

Arizona’s top officials have certified the midterm election results

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Commentary: Americans love to hate their politics

In the 2018 midterm elections, 50% of eligible U.S. citizens turned out to vote. Because Americans are always less inclined to show up at the polls in years when the presidency isn’t on the ballot, half of the nation feeling sufficiently motivated to vote was a remarkable event. Heading into…

The Conversation

Evangelical Christians are crucial voters in Republican primaries. Would they support DeSantis or Trump?

Ron DeSantis’s re-election as governor of Florida was one of the few bright spots for Republicans in an otherwise disappointing 2022 midterm election. DeSantis originally won the governorship by less than half a percentage point in 2018. in 2022, he defeated his Democratic opponent (and former Republican governor) Charlie Crist…

The Independent UK

Arizona judge orders county to immediately certify election

An Arizona judge has ordered Cochise County officials to certify the midterm election results by the end of the day

France 24

France's answer on abortion: Should constitution include a woman's right to choose?

Who would have thought that a Supreme Court ruling in the United States could trigger a constitutional amendment in France? After all, there is zero threat here to a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy, a right that has been on the books since 1975. Earlier this month we saw…

Chicago Sun-Times

Calm before the storm? Trump’s long-teased White House bid is uncharacteristically low key in first week

Donald Trump has never valued the cadence and organization associated with traditional campaigns. But his light-touch start reflects the rushed and chaotic nature of his announcement, which came as midterm election votes were still being counted. It also comes at a moment of unique political…

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