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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Experts say President Trump's Thursday night speech -- and the tranche of newly unclassified documents that came with it -- provided no new evidence of fraud.
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President Trump has an interest in a piece of voting legislation, called the SAVE America Act, that is not shared by all of his Republican colleagues on Capitol Hill.
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Several California races remain uncalled as millions of ballots still need to be counted. All regular occurrences -- and all fodder for President Trump's claims it's a sign of election fraud.
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Republicans in the Senate are set to take up a voting overhaul known as the SAVE America Act, a key priority for President Trump.
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Allies of President Trump have floated the idea of him invoking emergency powers to make changes to voting rules. They've also floated sending federal agents to police the polls.
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President Trump's statements that the GOP should nationalize elections was accompanied by false claims about election integrity. Trump's efforts to change voting rules have mostly been blocked so far.
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Top state-level election officials react to the Jan. 28 raid on the Fulton County, Ga, elections office. The FBI executed a search warrant seeking ballots from the 2020 election.
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Will this year's midterm elections be fair? It seems like a simple question, but many state and local voting officials from both parties are worried about the possibility of federal interference.
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President Trump has issued pardons for 77 people, including his former attorney Rudy Giuliani and former chief of staff Mark Meadows, who backed his effort to subvert the 2020 election.
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Dominion Voting Systems has been sold to Liberty Vote. Dominion was at the center of fraudulent vote rigging claims by President Trump and his allies during the 2020 election.