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Voter suppression remains largely in the eye of the beholder in America. It’s everywhere and it’s nowhere, and its ghostly presence promises to haunt the November elections. Isabel Calderon is a prime example. The former volunteer with the League of United Latin American Citizens committed voter fraud, made an honest mistake, or is a victim…

Army Gen. Gustave Perna testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday on his nomination to oversee the COVID-19 vaccine project. Chip Somodevilla/POOL/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Army Gen. Gustave Perna testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday on his nomination to oversee the…

Hours-long waits, problems with new voting machines and a lack of available ballots plagued voters in majority minority counties in Georgia on Tuesday — conditions the secretary of state called "unacceptable" and vowed to investigate.Democrats and election watchers said voting issues in a state that has been plagued for years with similar problems, along with…

All-mail elections have been going on for years in some states, and from the liberal bastions of Oregon and Washington to rock-red conservative Utah, the voters who use it love it. President Trump is not a fan, however, calling it a recipe for fraud. He’s mounting an all-out assault in person, on Twitter and in…

The former cabinet secretaries and Federal Reserve chairs in the Zoom boxes were confused, though some of the Republicans may have been newly relieved and some of the Democrats suddenly concerned. “Everyone looked puzzled and thought I had misspoken,” Furman said in an interview. Instead of forecasting a prolonged depression-level economic catastrophe, Furman laid out…