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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Dec. 8 is known as the "safe harbor" deadline for states to certify their results. Past the deadline, Congress has significantly less latitude to intervene in the election results. -
"History will not be kind to those who are cognizant of the truth and yet choose silence for political expediency," said one Republican election official. -
Christopher Krebs, who led the federal government's efforts to secure the 2020 election, called the operation near seamless despite President Trump's claims to the contrary. -
Voting experts say it's not easy to remove options once they've been given to voters. But the fraught politics around alleged "fraud" complicate the outlook for coming elections.
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Led by one of President Trump's nominees, the agency has been actively trying to correct misinformation spread by all sorts of actors, including Trump, about the election. -
"The claims are baseless, and at this point folks are grasping at straws," said one secretary of state, of the Trump campaign's legal strategy. -
Years of the president talking about unsubstantiated election fraud has made many Republicans believe that vote tallies cannot be trusted. What will it take to make them think otherwise? -
Lawsuits filed across the country are the result of a campaign legal team working to "bend reality" to fit Trump's false claims, says one expert. -
Election officials have been warning for months that the influx of mail-in votes this year could mean a longer wait before the winner of the presidency is known. -
More voters will use paper ballots this year than in 2016, but in a number of key ways, U.S. election security still has a long way still to travel.
