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The online advertisement to Donald Trump supporters was clear enough: Click here, and receive a free Trump 2024 flag and a commemorative coin. All in exchange for taking a quick survey and providing a credit card number for the $5 shipping and handling. “You’ll get two free gifts just by taking this quick poll in support of Trump,” said the ad’s narrator. The ad — which has appeared on Facebook, YouTube, and other platforms — did not mention the $80 charge that would later appear on credit card statements. Those who clicked were scammed. Political advertisements on social media...

“The Associated Press” will have thousands of people on hand to count votes and declare winners and losers in the U.S. election, continuing a tradition that began in 1848. There is an even greater priority this year on explaining that process to outsiders. The AP has already run a series of stories outlining how everything works, and has a team of reporters who will be assigned on election night to write in plain language why it is “calling” key individual states for presidential candidates Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. Similar plans are afoot at other news organizations. At the...

In an effort to prevent another riot like the one on January 6, 2021, the Homeland Security secretary has designated the congressional count and certification of the presidential election as a national special security event overseen by the Secret Service. Both political parties’ national conventions, the presidential inauguration and the U.N. General Assembly already have this designation, but it is the first time the January 6 vote count and certification have received it. The Secret Service said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas made the designation following a request from the mayor of Washington, D.C. The move means these are...

On a table at the office of the Waukegan Township Democrats sits a box of postcards with Wisconsin addresses that were collected during a postcard-writing pizza party to help turn out voters there. Leaning against the table are homemade Harris-Walz signs. “We know they’re handing these out everywhere in Wisconsin,” said Matt Muchowski, chair of the Democratic club. “Here in Waukegan, it’s been harder to get a hold of Harris yard signs, so we’re printing out our own.” One reason they have been in short supply: Waukegan is in Illinois, which is not a presidential swing state. It just...

A steady stream of false and misleading information is spreading online around the 2024 election. A video circulating widely on social media that shows a man who says he is a Haitian immigrant claiming he is planning to vote multiple times in Georgia is fake. U.S. intelligence officials confirmed on November 1 that the video is the work of Russian influence creators. Here is a look at the facts. VIDEO THAT CLAIMS TO SHOW A HAITIAN IMMIGRANT WHO PLANS TO VOTE MULTIPLE TIMES IN GEORGIA IS FAKE CLAIM: A video shows a Haitian immigrant talking about how he intends...

Donald Trump has spent months laying the groundwork to challenge the results of the 2024 election if he loses, just as he did four years ago. At rally after rally, he urges his supporters to deliver a victory “too big to rig,” telling them the only way he can lose is if Democrats cheat. He has refused to say, repeatedly, whether he will accept the results regardless of the outcome, like he refused in 2020. And as he has fallen behind in the polls, he has claimed cheating is already underway by citing debunked claims or outrageous theories with...