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Utah County elections director Rozan Mitchell holds a "Election Heroes Work Here" sign during a tour of Utah County's elections equipment and review processes for administering secure elections Tuesday, April 19, 2022, in Provo, Utah. In Utah and other Republican-led states, unsubstantiated election fraud claims have upended support for vote by-mail, a practice that not long ago was overwhelmingly popular among Republicans. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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Deep-red Utah embraced voting by mail. Then came 2020.
By SAM METZ - Associated Press
Fri,04/22/22-8:33AM , 101 Reads
PROVO, Utah (AP) — As Dewon Holt toured a Utah ballot counting center, she listened intently and questioned election officials about concerns circulating since the 2020 election — about voting machines, people mailed multiple ballots and dead voters.
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Ronna McDaniel, the GOP chairwoman, speaks during the Republican National Committee winter meeting Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in Salt Lake City. Republican Party officials voted to punish GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for their roles on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection and advanced a rule change that would prohibit candidates from participating in debates organized by the Commission on Presidential Debates. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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GOP censures Cheney, Kinzinger as it assails Jan. 6 probe
By SAM METZ - Associated Press
Fri,02/04/22-1:14PM , 173 Reads
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Republican National Committee censured two GOP lawmakers on Friday for participating on the committee investigating the violent Jan. 6 insurrection and assailed the panel for leading a “persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.”
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President Donald Trump speaks during a Christmas Eve video teleconference with members of the military at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. A Las Vegas city councilwoman has been spending thousands on television ads in her quest to be Nevada's next governor. But Michele Fiore isn't only airing those ads to be seen by millions of Nevada voters. She's also targeting an audience of one in faraway Florida. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik.File)

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Nevada candidate seeks Trump's favor with Florida TV spot
By SAM METZ - AP/Report for America
Wed,01/12/22-11:09PM , 131 Reads
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — In a campaign ad, Nevada gubernatorial candidate Michele Fiore steps out of a Ford F-150 with a handgun holstered on her hip and tells viewers she was one of the first elected officials to endorse Donald Trump in the lead-up to the 2016 election.
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Art critic Dave Hickey, known for book 'Air Guitar', dies
By SAM METZ - AP / Report for America
Thu,11/25/21-10:17AM , 252 Reads
Dave Hickey, a prominent American art critic whose essays covered topics ranging from Siegfried & Roy to Norman Rockwell, has died.

His books, including “The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty” (1993) and “Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy” (1997), won him legions of fans beyond the art world cognoscenti.
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