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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Trump officials say they found 250,000 noncitizens on voter rolls in just four states. Those states don't know where the numbers came from, and some worry what the claims may portend for the midterms. -
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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Just ahead of closely contested midterms, Texas is about to get a new top voting official. Many locals there fear the frontrunner is a state lawmaker and pastor with no election experience. -
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Voting officials worry that the Department of Homeland Security will not be a partner helping to secure elections, but rather a threat seeking to undermine results that President Trump dislikes. -
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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After President Trump called California's recent primary "rigged," a familiar playbook emerges that forecasts what the president's election attacks may look like moving toward November's midterms.
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The SAVE America Act, a far-reaching Republican election overhaul that President Trump said should be his congressional allies' top priority, has failed in the Senate. -
America's voting systems are getting old. But unless Congress makes a massive financial commitment, a new report finds it could take decades before voting machines are widely replaced.
