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 to get money back from Superstorm Sandy victims, profiled 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 of legendary women's basketball coach Pat Summitt.
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After a disappointing Super Tuesday, the billionaire former mayor of New York City announced he is suspending his campaign. -
Just ahead of the single most important day of the Democratic primary, former Vice President Biden picked up the endorsements of two former rivals.
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During Pence's governorship, an HIV outbreak occurred that some health experts say could have been prevented or lessened with a better response. -
Democrats in Nevada have been scrambling to adjust their plans, in response to the debacle in Iowa. Early voting opens on Saturday with the state's full caucus set for one week later. -
Local governments could perform a simple upgrade to make it clear to voters that they are reading from a legitimate source. But on the whole, they aren't doing it. -
The president's team told senators that House managers selectively withheld evidence in their arguments. -
The bureau was faulted after the Russian attack on the 2016 election for keeping too much information from state and local authorities. It says it'll use a new policy going forward. -
Despite unanswered questions about security and transparency, mobile voting pilots aimed at overseas and military voters move forward in a number of states. -
Election officials have been planning and preparing for 2020 based on what they know happened leading up to 2016. The question now is what more they may learn from the special counsel. -
Whether the party's focus on voting issues has an effect on the nuts and bolts of the next presidential election remains to be seen.
