Hansi Lewong
speaker
1,358 appearances
173 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 2d ago
Hansi Lewong’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 138 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 52.
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All six locations are in Democratic led states holding elections with national implications, including California's special election on congressional redistricting and the New Jersey governor's race.
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Those six locations were also named in letters from those states' Republican parties, which claim each of those counties has experienced voting issues and asked the DOJ to send federal monitors.
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New Jersey's Attorney General Matt Plattkin, a Democrat, says the move is highly inappropriate and that state officials are considering all of their options to prevent any effort to intimidate voters.
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Anzela Wong, NPR News.
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Pennsylvania's state attorney general's office says the six-page street canvassers now facing charges were not trying to sway any election or voter rolls for a specific political party or candidate.
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Instead, state prosecutors say they were trying to keep their jobs by meeting a quota with voter registration forms containing fake information.
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Last fall, multiple counties in the swing state flagged potential problems with thousands of voter registration forms dropped off on or close to the state's sign-up deadline.
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That led to baseless claims by President Trump, then the Republican presidential candidate, that officials in a Pennsylvania county had uncovered fraudulent votes.
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County election officials say return registration forms were not approved unless information could be verified as being linked with the real person.
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Anzila Wong, NPR News.
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For decades, the Voting Rights Act has required certain places where voting is racially polarized to draw districts where racial minority voters have a realistic opportunity of electing their preferred candidates.
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Enduring oral arguments over their constitutionality, one of the high court's liberal justices, Helena Kagan, asked the Legal Defense Fund's Janae Nelson about the possibility of ending those requirements.
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Depending on when the Supreme Court rules, it could allow Republicans to redraw up to 19 more House districts in their favor before next year's election.
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Anzila Wong, NPR News.
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The Census Bureau says it needs about 1,500 workers for the 2026 census tests in parts of Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas.
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They're supposed to help develop better ways of getting a count of every person living in the states in 2030.
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Those numbers determine each state's share of congressional seats, electoral college votes, and federal funding.
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But Alison Plyer with the Census Quality Reinforcement Task Force is concerned the Bureau is behind on raising public awareness.
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The Census Bureau says it plans to mail invitations to some households around the country to participate in the census test starting in March.
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Anzi Luong, NPR News.
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