Miles Parks
Miles Parks is a reporter on NPR's Washington Desk. He covers voting and elections, and also reports on breaking news.
Parks joined NPR as the 2014-15 Stone & Holt Weeks Fellow. Since then, he's investigated FEMA's efforts to get money back from Superstorm Sandy victims, profiled budding rock stars and produced for all three of NPR's weekday news magazines.
A graduate of the University of Tampa, Parks also previously covered crime and local government for The Washington Post and The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla.
In his spare time, Parks likes playing, reading and thinking about basketball. He wrote The Washington Post's obituary of legendary women's basketball coach Pat Summitt.
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In response to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot four years ago, Congress passed new rules to govern the presidential certification process. Those rules will be in effect Monday. -
The turnout rate in this year's presidential election was relatively high — and Republicans did really well, contradicting conventional political wisdom that high turnout benefits Democrats.
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Counting continues in several states. We get an overall look on how smoothly voting went on Election Day.
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Isaac Cramer, a South Carolina voting official, is celebrating the release of his first children’s book. Cramer says kids inherently understand voting because they are kind of doing it all the time.
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Some people are already voting in this year's election, and some people are already planning to challenge the vote. We'll hear how election officials are trying to secure their work.
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To help ensure the integrity of the November elections, federal officials are advising local elections offices to upgrade websites — but many are not doing it.
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The false notion that undocumented immigrants affect federal elections has a long history. But this year, due in part to rising migration at the U.S. southern border, the idea could have new potency. -
Indications are that things generally went smoothly — good news in a year that has experts worried about the state of democracy.
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Nine GOP-led states have now pulled out of ERIC, which helps members find election fraud and keep their voter lists up to date. And experts say their new efforts to replicate the group aren't as good. -
Election conspiracies have fundamentally changed the job of local voting officials, and many don't want to take it anymore.
