Alexandria Jacobson

As polling machine issues in Westchester County, New York, stand to affect as many as 250,000 ballots, claims of fraud have already started surging on social media.

It's just the beginning of the voter fraud narrative to come, said Joe Bonilla, a New York-based strategist who works mostly with Democrats, but also for Republicans and Independents.

"If you're [Republican incumbent Congressman] Mike Lawler, you are looking at this as, this is a county that's critical if he has a path to victory, and now we have this situation, which is beyond any candidate's control," said Bonilla, a co-founder of creative strategy firm Relentless Awareness. ...

A nonpartisan democracy watchdog raised concerns about polling place issues in a Florida Democratic stronghold Tuesday.

"It has already been a pretty challenging morning, especially in Southeast Florida," Amy Keith, Florida director for the group Common Cause, said.

She flagged issues in Broward County, whose largest city is Fort Lauderdale, including polling place changes due to flooding and issues with voter check-in machines....

From pollsters to gambling companies, the projected odds that Democrats regain control of the House after Tuesday’s election continue to grow toward a 90 percent likelihood.

And the chance of a Democratic sweep of both the House and Senate hovers around 70 percent on prediction markets.

“I think Democrats winning control of the House probably is pretty close to a foregone conclusion as it can be at this point," said Jim Ronan, a professor in the political science department at Villanova University. ...

For Ashton Reed, President Donald Trump dominated his political consciousness for more than half of his life — until he suddenly realized he was being lied to.

The 22-year-old “literally grew up in MAGA” under the influence of his grandmother, who was “a huge sympathizer for the Tea Party movement” and started bringing politics to the dinner table when Reed was around 6 years old.

“When Trump announced his candidacy, at this point, I was being fed a whole bunch of false information, skewed information, and I really thought because my grandma thought this way, and I guess because she was the most trusted adult to me at the time, I figured that her judgment must be good,” Reed said....

A year after far-right activists forced historian Mark Bray to flee New Jersey with his family due to death threats and doxxing, the Rutgers University professor is back in the United States with a defiant message — and a new book.

“Turning Point and their allies tried to run me out of my job and out of my country, and I didn't want to let them win,” Bray told Raw Story.

“I wanted to do what I can to make this place a better place.” ...