Latest Stories By Amy Sherman

During the midterms this year, more than 100 million Americans will likely vote. Voters who cast a ballot at an in-person site will witness only a small slice of what goes into operating elections. Millions of voters who fill out a mail ballot at their kitchen tables will see even less of the process.  We […]

A draft Supreme Court ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade means that abortion pills may become a key part of the next legal frontier to access to abortion. If finalized, the ruling would overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade court opinion that established a national right to an abortion, as well as a later […]

“2000 mules,” a new documentary from a right-wing filmmaker with a history of spreading false claims, promises to give evidence to millions of Americans who believe something went wrong in the 2020 election. The trailer for Dinesh D’Souza’s movie resembles a sci-fi flick, set to dramatic horror movie music with grainy video footage of what […]

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade is over 90 pages long. But Alito wasted little time getting to his key point. “The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision,” he wrote. The entire draft opinion was leaked to Politico, […]

Ohio voters head to the polls May 3 in one of the earliest competitive primaries for the U.S. Senate. At PolitiFact, we have been busy fact-checking the leading Senate candidates vying to replace retiring Sen. Rob Portman. But now it’s time to focus on you, the voter, and what you need to know about Election […]

Alaska voters in 2022 will use a new method to choose their representation in Congress, one that eliminates traditional primaries. The design, called ranked choice voting, is gaining popularity in many places nationwide.  Ranked choice voting is a system by which voters rank candidates in descending order of preference, rather than choosing a single candidate. […]

In November 2020, it took days for key states in the U.S. to count ballots and report preliminary results to project a winner in the presidential race. But that’s not the case in France, said Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance. “I have a buddy in France, and they just had an election there,” Vance tweeted […]

People who want to drive a car, go fishing or shampoo peoples’ hair at a blow dry bar typically have to obtain a government permit or license. But an increasing number of states no longer require residents to obtain a permit from a local law enforcement agency to carry a concealed gun. Twenty-five states now have […]

As voters walked up to a ballot drop box outside the Arapahoe County administration building in Colorado on Nov. 2, 2020, the day before Election Day, they saw two men – one wearing a holstered handgun – filming voters as they dropped off their ballots. Some voters told county officials they felt threatened. Law enforcement […]

Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, made a series of false and conspiratorial claims shortly after the 2020 election in text messages to Mark Meadows, former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, imploring him to press forward in an effort to overturn the election. The Washington Post […]

In 1991, the World Wide Web was in its infancy, the Soviet Union collapsed and Madonna topped the charts. In the world of Arizona politics, the year marked the beginning of expansive voting by mail. Three decades later, the Arizona Republican Party wants to get rid of voting by mail, despite the fact that it […]

As the presidential election approached in 2020, the elections clerk in Boone County, Missouri, had a problem. A federal grant early in the pandemic had helped pay for unexpected election expenses such as plexiglass shields and cleaning supplies at polling places. But that money was now gone, and Election Day was a couple of months […]