voter intimidation

After the long vote count and now in the midst of a rocky presidential transition, it can be easy to forget that there’s a lot that went surprisingly smoothly in our election process this year. Watch for four things that went very right on Election Day.

The U.S. government announced this week that Iran was likely behind threatening emails received by people across the country that appeared to come from a far-right extremist group called the “Proud Boys” ordering them to vote for President Trump. LX News was joined by Randy Pestana of FIU’s Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Kristen Clarke of the National Lawyers’...

The FBI said Iran is behind the spoofed emails threatening Democratic voters in several states, including ones in Florida. NBC 6’s Kim Wynne reports.

A voting rights group says that caravans of flag-waving President Donald Trump supporters appeared to obstruct and intimidate voters at two polling locations in predominantly ethnic-minority neighborhoods last weekend in the Albuquerque area.

A Florida college student received a threatening email, falsely purporting to be from the neo-fascist group Proud Boys, that warned “we will come after you” if she didn’t vote for President Donald Trump.

A Florida college student received a threatening email from an unknown group posing as the Proud Boys, sparking concerns of voter intimidation from experts and advocates,

Iranian intelligence was behind the threatening emails that were sent to voters in Florida, warning “we will come after you” if the recipients didn’t vote for President Donald Trump, the FBI announced Wednesday.

Voter intimidation is an old tactic with a long and ugly history. And as voters begin lining up for early voting in states across the country, some behavior is already being reported – particularly by supporters of President Trump – that falls in the “gray area” between illegal voter intimidation and free speech. Here’s what to know when you go...