Carter Walker

Carter Walker

Senior Reporter, Votebeat Pennsylvania

Carter was previously a reporter at the LNP in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he covered political extremism, including election misinformation, for the past year. He is originally from Chester County, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Penn State with a journalism degree. After working at the Times West Virginian, he returned to Pennsylvania to cover government and politics with a focus on investigative work.

Voters headed to the polls amid unprecedented concern about federal interference.

Officials in all 50 states conduct post-election audits to verify that election results are accurate and procedures were followed properly.

The Trump administration is deploying an unprecedented 1,000 monitors to observe the midterms, but the monitors themselves are a normal feature of elections.

Americans are losing confidence in voting by mail after persistent Trump efforts to restrict the practice.

Votebeat and Spotlight PA attempted to verify the citizenship of 180 potential noncitizen voters in Chester County.

The state blamed “human error” for the mix-up and emphasized that safeguards are in place to make sure only one ballot per voter will be counted.

Democratic mail ballot requests are down from both 2022 and 2024, but there could be several reasons for that.

The Trump administration has been cracking down on noncitizen voting ahead of the midterms.