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False claims, threats fuel poll worker sign-ups for US midterm elections
Outraged by false allegations of fraud against a Georgia elections employee in 2020, Amanda Rouser made a vow as she listened to the woman testify before Congress in June about the racist threats and harassment she faced. I said that day to myself, I'm going to go work in the polls, and I'm going to see what they're going to do to me," Rouser, who like the targeted employee is Black, recalled after stopping by a recruiting station for poll workers at Atlanta City Hall on a recent afternoon. Try me, because I'm not scared of people. About 40 miles north a day later, claims of fraud also brought Carolyn Barnes to a recruiting event for prospective poll workers, but with a different motivation. "I believe that we had a fraudulent election in 2020 because of the mail-in ballots, the advanced voting, Barnes, 52, said after applying to work the polls for the first time in Forsyth County. I truly believe that the more we flood the system with honest people who are trying to help out, it w
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Facebook accounts shut for meddling in US polls may be linked to Russia
On Tuesday, the numbers of accounts removed for "coordinated inauthentic behavior" was raised to 36 at Facebook and 99 at the social network's Instagram service
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US mid-term elections: Four Indian-Americans re-elected to the House
A few Indian-Americans also picked up seats in the State assemblies
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US Midterms: Days of one-party control over as Democrats win the House
Democratic leaders have already said they plan to use their first month in the House majority to advance sweeping changes to future campaign and ethics laws
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US midterms: How woman power turned things around for both parties
At least 100 women will be serving in the House next year
Trump avoids rout in US mid-term polls; deadlock looms in split Congress
The scale of the losses of House seats by the Republicans this time were nowhere near the 63 seats lost by the Democrats in former President Barack Obama's first midterm in 2010
US midterm polls produce a divided Congress, Democrats retake House
Democrats retake the House as GOP strengthens Senate majority; outcome tests the appetite of both to work together
US midterms: Unchallenged Pelosi poised to take the Speaker's gavel again
Pelosi, 78 -- long disparaged by Republicans as a polarizing symbol -- is the only woman to serve as House speaker, for four years starting in 2007
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As midterm vote nears, Trump resumes stoking fears about immigrants
Raising fears about immigrants has been a central theme for Trump since he first announced he was running for president
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