Miles Parks
Miles Parks is a correspondent on NPR's Washington Desk, where he covers voting and election security.
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. [Copyright 2025 NPR]
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Dominion Voting Systems is at the heart of countless 2020 election conspiracy theories. The company has now been sold, and its new owner has shared contrasting messaging about how much will change. -
Dominion Voting Systems is at the heart of countless 2020 election conspiracy theories. The company has now been sold, and its new owner has shared contrasting messaging about how much will change.
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The Department of Justice is escalating its demands for sensitive data from voting officials, suing two Democratic-controlled states who have thus far rebuffed the department's requests. -
Tens of millions of voters have had their information run through the tool — a striking portion of the U.S. public, considering little has been made public about the tool's accuracy or data security. -
The Trump administration has tied new requirements to election security grants. Some states told NPR they're passing on the grants as a result. -
Some 2 in 5 of all the local officials who administered the 2020 election left their jobs before the 2024 cycle, new research has found. -
New research confirms what election experts have said all along: Noncitizen voting occasionally happens, but in minuscule numbers and not in any coordinated way. -
A new law includes a provision that could mean bettors pay more during tax season. Major poker players are calling on Congress to royally flush the measure down the drain. -
The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans. -
More than a month after a federal judge halted a key portion of President Trump's executive order on voting, another judge has ruled that additional provisions of the order need to pause as well.
