Debunking voter fraud conspiracy theories. And, how much power does the president have to enact abortion laws?

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🎧 Trump supporters are collecting evidence of voter fraud in an effort to safeguard the vote, NPR’s Jingnan Huo tells Up First. The online evidence gathering involves a lot of first-person accounts of people running into mistakes or things they didn’t expect. A big narrative of this election is that noncitizens are voting in large numbers. “To be clear there have been incidents of noncitizens voting illegally, but it happens in very small numbers and there is no sign that it has affected election results,” Huo says. This builds an impression that voter fraud is happening everywhere when in fact it’s very rare. 

🎧 Harris wouldn’t be able to expand abortion rights alone. She needs Congress’ support, NPR’s Elissa Nadworny says. Even if she could get something passed, she would face legal challenges and a now conservative Supreme Court. If Trump became president, he could limit abortion by enforcing an anti-obscenity law called the Comstock Act. It could be used to criminalize abortion by banning abortion pills and medical instruments needed for the procedure. Once in office, a president could use executive authority to strengthen privacy laws to protect women from prosecution. In contrast, the president could create abortion tracking requirements.