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Talarico Ad Omits Details of Crystal Mason’s Illegal Voting Case
One of the closing ads from Democrat James Talarico in the Texas Senate race says that Crystal Mason received a five-year prison sentence for illegal voting "because of Ken Paxton’s crackdown on voters of color." But there's more to the story.
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Explaining the Case of the Two Dan Sullivans on Alaska’s Ballot
In the Alaska Senate race, the candidacy of retired teacher Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. — not the incumbent Republican senator, Dan S. Sullivan — has been the subject of months of legal wrangling. But the issue took on increased national prominence this past week.
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NH Ad Distorts the Facts in Claiming Pappas Grew Rich in Office
An ad airing in the New Hampshire Senate race tells viewers that Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas is “out for himself,” using cherry-picked figures to falsely claim that his net worth has skyrocketed while in office.
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Data Centers and Electricity Prices: It’s Not as Simple as Voters May Think
Energy Secretary Chris Wright has cast data centers as a “massive force to reduce the price of electricity” even as many midterm ads claim the opposite. Who is right? We explain the complexities.
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Dispelling Unfounded Claims About Voting Machine Issues
Q: Are voting machines changing Democratic votes to Republican votes? Several posts on Facebook are making that claim.
A: There is no evidence that touchscreen voting machines are deliberately switching voter selections. Rather, elections experts and state election officials have said that reported issues of machines initially not recording votes correctly are a result of familiar machine calibration issues or voter error. Also, nearly the entire country votes in a manner where voters review a paper ballot before having their votes officially cast.
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