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Roxanna Moritz, who last year won her fourth term as the chief election officer in Scott County, Iowa, and quit five months later, in Davenport, Iowa, June 22, 2021. A drumbeat of threats, disinformation and draining work in 2020 has spurred resignations and retirements amid elections officials. Some fear developments in 2021 are making things worse. (Rachel Mummey/The New York Times) XNYT14 XNYT14

July 2, 2021 at 3:15 pm

After a nightmare year, election officials are quitting

A drumbeat of threats, disinformation and draining work in 2020 has spurred resignations and retirements amid elections officials. Some fear developments in 2021 are making...

A contractor working for Cyber Ninjas, the company hired by the Arizona State Senate to conduct an audit of the November vote, moves boxes at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix on Friday, May 14, 2021.Top local Republicans are hitting back at Donald Trump and fellow party members in the State Senate over the review of Arizona ballots. (Courtney Pedroza/The New York Times) XNYT24 XNYT24

May 17, 2021 at 4:53 pm

‘We Can’t Indulge These Insane Lies’: Arizona GOP Split on Vote Audit

The Republican leaders of Arizona’s most populous county issued a blistering rebuke to a review of the November election that had been ordered by the...

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April 25, 2021 at 8:47 am

Half a Year After Trump’s Defeat, Arizona Republicans Are Recounting the Vote

PHOENIX — It seemed so simple back in December. Responding to angry voters who echoed former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election,...

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February 27, 2021 at 10:47 am

In statehouses, stolen-election myth fuels GOP drive to rewrite rules

WASHINGTON — Led by loyalists who embrace former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of a stolen election, Republicans in state legislatures nationwide are mounting extraordinary...

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January 18, 2021 at 1:12 pm

Census Bureau Director Resigns From Post After Claims That He Politicized Role

Steven Dillingham has resigned as director of the Census Bureau, bringing an early end to a tumultuous tenure that culminated this month in charges that...

December 11, 2020 at 9:56 pm

What happens when a superspreader event keeps spreading

WASHINGTON — When it was disclosed last spring that the coronavirus had stealthily infected 99 people after the Cambridge, Massachusetts, pharmaceutical company Biogen held a...

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September 10, 2020 at 6:16 pm

Federal court rejects Trump’s order to exclude unauthorized immigrants from census

WASHINGTON — A federal court Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s order to exclude unauthorized immigrants from population counts that will be used next year to...

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August 28, 2020 at 4:24 pm

March on Washington 2020: Protesters hope to rekindle spirit of 1963

WASHINGTON — Hours after President Donald Trump stood on the South Lawn of the White House to rail against what he called agitators bent on...

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August 6, 2020 at 4:11 pm

At the Census Bureau, a technical memo raises alarms over politics

Some experts inside and outside the Census Bureau see the memorandum as the precursor to an effort to manipulate population figures to give Republicans an...

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May 29, 2020 at 4:14 pm

Trump’s ‘looting’ remark dates to racial unrest of the 1960s

WASHINGTON — An incendiary phrase used by President Donald Trump in a tweet about the protests over George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis appears to have...

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