Miles Parks
Miles Parks is a correspondent on NPR's Washington Desk, where he covers voting and election security, and is a co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast. He also serves as a guest host for NPR radio shows, including Weekend Edition and All Things Considered.
He began covering election issues after the 2016 presidential election, and his work was cited in the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on Russian election interference.
In 2020, Parks and Iowa Public Radio's Kate Payne broke the news that Iowa Democrats were planning to use an untested and potentially vulnerable app to transport their Caucus results.
He has also reported extensively on misinformation. As Covid-19 vaccines were being rolled out in the U.S., Parks used data analysis to show that misleading information about the shots was going viral on social media.
Parks's investigation detailing how far-right political pressure drove states to abandon a tool that helps catch voter fraud was named a 2023 finalist for the Peabody Award and the Toner Prize for Excellence in National Political Reporting.
A graduate of the University of Tampa, Parks joined NPR as the 2014-15 Stone & Holt Weeks Fellow and he has also previously covered local politics 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.
Parks can be reached via encrypted message on the signal app at milesparks.10.
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The idea of law enforcement taking possession of ballots in the middle of an active election used to be considered impossible. Now, it's a scenario voting officials — and judges — are training for. -
The Trump administration claimed to have found 250,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls in four states. But the agency's communications with states since then indicate that data was preliminary. -
A Trump-aligned think tank has ties to a highly unusual Census Bureau report that the president is using to renew false claims of widespread voting by non-U.S. citizens in 2020, NPR has learned. -
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.
