Christina A. Cassidy

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Chelsea players celebrate the victory after winning the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 final match with Donald Trump

Trump marks first anniversary of assassination attempt by joining Chelsea players on the field to celebrate Club World Cup victory

By Aamer Madhani, Christina A. Cassidy, and others

Supervisor of the Checklist for the State of New Hampshire Leslie Dombroski, left, registers Elise Collins, 18, to vote in Derry, N.H., Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha)

Trump signs order to make voters show proof of citizenship in elections, with swift pushback expected from states which set their own voting rules

By Ali Swenson, Christina A. Cassidy, and others

PALM BEACH, FLORIDA – DECEMBER 16: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on December 16, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. In a news conference that went over an hour, Trump announced that SoftBank will invest over $100 billion in projects in the United States including 100,000 artificial intelligence related jobs and then took questions on Syria, Israel, Ukraine, the economy, cabinet picks, and many other topics. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Republicans want to change voting laws after deluge of false claims of election fraud

By Christina A. Cassidy and The Associated Press

Voters line up to vote as a early voting location opened in Carmel, Ind., Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Election Day 2024 is here but 82 million ballots have already been cast—more than half the 2020 vote

By Christina A. Cassidy, Ali Swenson, and others

FILE – Dawn Stephens, right, and Duane Taylor prepare ballots to be mailed at the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond, File)

Republican lawsuits challenge overseas voters as group swings Democratic

By Christina A. Cassidy, Nicholas Riccardi, and others

Director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Jen Easterly speaks to The Associated Press in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

U.S. cybersecurity head says there’s no chance a foreign adversary can change Harris-Trump election results

By Christina A. Cassidy, Ali Swenson, and others

Andrea Martinez, chairwoman of the Walker River Paiute Tribe reservation speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the Walker River reservation in Nev., Tuesday, May 14, 2024. The use of electronic balloting has been quietly expanding in recent years to cover the disabled and, in Nevada this year, Native American tribes. Election security experts are warning of the risk that ballots submitted on a computer can be digitally intercepted or manipulated. (AP Photo/Serkan Gurbuz)

Nevada is expanding electronic voting for Native American tribes. That ‘high-risk activity’ has some election security experts worried

By Christina A. Cassidy and The Associated Press

Polling station supplies are distributed to their workers from the Orange County Supervisor of Elections headquarters on the eve of the US midterm elections, in Orlando, Florida, on November 7, 2022. (Photo by Gregg Newton / AFP) (Photo by GREGG NEWTON/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Someone needs to get these people AND their children’: Election workers face increasing death threats but those responsible are rarely prosecuted

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Christina A. Cassidy, and others

FILE – In this image provided by U.S. Cyber Command, Army Major Gen. William Hartman, commander of U.S. Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force, speaks during a ceremony at U.S. Cyber Command headquarters at Fort George E. Meade, Md., on Dec. 19, 2022. Before the 2020 presidential election, Iranian hackers broke into to a system used by an unidentified local government to support its election night operations but were kicked out before any attack could be launched, according to U.S. military and cybersecurity officials. (U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Jon Dasbach/U.S. Cyber Command via AP)

The military says that a group of cyber soldiers stopped Iranian hackers from publishing unofficial US election results

By Christina A. Cassidy, Frank Bajak, and others

An election official helps another as they sort ballots during an audit at the Georgia World Congress Center on Nov. 14, 2020, in Atlanta. Republican lawmakers in at least six states have introduced legislation that would require all ballots to be counted by hand instead of electronic tabulators, and similar proposals are being floated in some county and local governments.

Some in GOP want ballots to be counted by hand, not machines

By Christina A. Cassidy, Holly Ramer, and others

DES MOINES, IOWA – OCTOBER 09: Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on October 09, 2021 in Des Moines, Iowa. This is Trump’s first rally in Iowa since the 2020 election.

Investigation finds only 475 cases of potential voter fraud in battleground states won by Biden

By Christina A. Cassidy and The Associated Press

Volunteers set up the stage as Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder is scheduled to speak at an Asian Rally for Yes Recall at the Asian Garden Mall in Little Saigon, Westminster, California, on September 4, 2021. – The recall election, which will be held on September 14, 2021, asks voters to respond two questions: whether Newsom, a Democratic, should be recalled from the office of governor, and who should succeed Newsom if he is recalled. Forty-six candidates, including nine Democrats and 24 Republicans, are looking to take Newsom’s place as the governmental leader of California. (Photo by RINGO CHIU / AFP) (Photo by RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images)

California GOP tries to encourage turnout even as party leaders claim the state’s recall is rigged

By Adam Beam, Christina A. Cassidy, and others

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference on voting rights at the Department of Justice in Washington, Friday, June 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Justice Department sues Georgia over controversial voting law

By Michael Balsamo, Christina A. Cassidy, and others

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., arrive for a Senate Rules Committee hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mitch McConnell leads GOP in attack on voting rights bill

By Brian Slodysko, Christina A. Cassidy, and others