Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the West Palm Beach Supervisor of Elections office yesterday in response to complaints, reported by Electionland, that supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump were shouting at voters through a bullhorn.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said deputies will remain at the site through Election Day. On Election Day, uniformed officers will be at the supervisor's office as well as at every other polling place in the county, spokeswoman Therese Barbera said.

Twitter accounts have been tweeting out false voting information directed at Hillary Clinton supporters since early voting began. These tweets tell Clinton supporters they can "vote from home" by texting their vote in or voting on line. All of them are false, but Twitter seems to be having a problem cleaning up the tweets.

Elections cost millions of dollars to organize and run, but some of the most crucial work is performed by low-wage workers, specifically poll workers.

Supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump continue to gather in front of the West Palm Beach, Florida, supervisor of elections’ office and shout at Hillary Clinton supporters and voters through bullhorns as they use the early voting location, videos show.

More than 400,000 people voted during Maryland’s first four days of early voting, according to data released by the state on Sunday. I was one of them, waiting a few minutes in line at the Wheaton Volunteer Rescue Squad station in Montgomery County, a suburb of Washington D.C. When I entered, a poll worker handed me the card pictured above, which is used to track how long voters might have to wait at early voting centers.

This month we published an interactive story that helps readers understand how elections are actually run all over the U.S. It’s based on data from the 2012 Election Administration and Voter Survey, a biannual project run by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to better understand voters’ experience at the polls.

The story is part of Electionland, a collaboration with the Google News Lab, Univision, WNYC, the USA Today Network, the First Draft Coalition and CUNY Graduate School of Journalism to cover problems that prevent people from exercising their right to vote during the 2016 election.

Our story automatically geo-locates users to show them a standard set of information about their county or state. But this is really just a jumping off point for further reporting — and that’s where you come in. Here are a few ways you can use this data to ask interesting questions and to build out local stories.

Is your county ready for this year’s voter turnout?

1. Use our story to find out how your county’s turnout compares to other counties in your state. What factors influence this?
2. Ask your local elections office how voter registration for this election compares to past presidential elections and write an article about how turnout might be expected to change this time around.
3. Using that registration data, take a look at how many poll workers per polling place your county had in 2012. Research has shown that poll workers per polling place is one key determinant in wait times at the polls. Will poll workers be prepared for the expected level of turnout this year?

How are provisional ballots handled in your county?

1. Use the story to find out what percentage of provisional ballots were rejected in your county and state in 2012.
2. Ask your local elections office for breakdowns of why provisional ballots were rejected. These are very likely public records. Provisional ballots are rejected for a number of reasons, as we have reported, and those reasons vary by state.
3. If your state is a “full rejection” state — meaning that the full ballot is tossed if someone casts a ballot in the wrong precinct — see if you can determine in which precincts this happens the most often.

Have more or fewer voters been purged from the rolls in the run-up to this election?

1. Use our interactive story to find out what percentage of the voting age population was purged from voter rolls in the run-up to the 2012 general election (between 2010 and 2012).
2. Check with your local election officials about voter purges in this election and see how that number has changed. Is it more or less than in the 2012 election?
3. If purges have increased or decreased, see if you can find out why that happened.

How does your county handle absentee ballots?

Absentee ballots are not a core part of what we’re covering through Electionland, but there’s a lot of interest in this topic! It’s one of the most common issues about which voters have asked us questions since we launched the project.

1. Use the app to see how many absentee ballots were rejected by local election officials in 2012.
2. Check with your local officials to see if the rules for absentee ballots have changed for 2016, and whether those changes might impact rejection rates.
3. Also look at rejection and return rates for overseas and military absentee ballots.

General Notes

Remember that with so many people voting, even small percentages mean thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of people. You may see that your state’s absentee ballot rejection rate is 1.5 percent, only to do the math and realize that this means 10,000 voters were for all practical purposes disenfranchised.

For the most part, election officials are civic-minded folks who are eager to discuss their often misunderstood role. Their work is complex and demanding, fraught with constitutional responsibility, and on Election Day insanely stressful. They’ve got great stories to tell.

This post was co-published with Univision. Lea en español.

An image has begun circulating on Twitter that appears to show an immigration officer arresting someone in line to vote. The image is a hoax, as is the accompanying threatening language directed at Hispanic voters.

_This post was co-published with Univision. Lea en español._

Long lines are one of the main problems that affect Latino voters, and Electionland is finding evidence of that this year during early voting.

In 2012, more than half a million voters were unable to cast a ballot because of lines, and studies show that voters in precincts with more minorities tend to face longer wait times. For example, in Florida, Latino voters faced the longest wait times -- more than black and white voters, election administration experts Daniel Smith and Michael Herron found.

Today is the deadline for Texas voters to request a ballot so they can vote absentee by mail. Such voting is on the rise. More than 227,000 Texans have already voted by mail, more than in 2012 and 2014.

A federal court has ordered the clerk of Cabell County, West Virginia, to immediately begin accepting voter registration forms submitted online, after the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit last week. Cabell County Clerk Karen Cole has been refusing to process online applications, citing -- without evidence -- concerns about proof of identification.

Yesterday TMZ posted an article declaring voter fraud to be “a real concern”. (Yes, that TMZ.) Here's how the story begins:

NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and most blogs are trying to convince you there is virtually NO EVIDENCE of voter fraud, so Trump's fears are bogus … but we drilled down and some officials who run the voting systems around the country are VERY worried about fraudulent voting.

But here’s the thing: Two of the three election officials the story cites told us TMZ attributes things to them they did not say, and that they have no concerns whatsoever about the possibility of voter fraud.

Here's a fun new election conspiracy theory. A series of fringe right-wing blogs and some more prominent places like The Daily Caller have reported that George Soros has "deep ties" to, or even owns, a voting machine company that's going to be used during the election — and that he might use the machines to rig votes.

Here’s how I learned that someone voted as me in the 2012 general election.

On March 26, 2014, three investigators from Maryland’s Office of the State Prosecutor sat at my dining room table and showed me a signature on a photocopy taken from a D.C. poll book. The scrawl looked more like a seismograph reading and was so unrecognizable that it took me a minute to realize that I was looking at it upside down. Turning the picture over didn’t make it much better.

“No, that’s not my handwriting,” I told them.

Somebody had clearly voted using my name. But why? And how did state officials figure it out?

Early voting started yesterday in Texas, but it wasn’t all smooth sailing. Voters in some counties were met with long lines, malfunctioning equipment, and even poll workers confused about state law.

Electionland partner Texas Tribune reported that voters in coastal Nueces County — which includes Corpus Christi — saw wait times of upwards of an hour. One voter reported a three-hour wait at a precinct with only a single polling station. Long wait times were also reported in Harris County, home of Houston. County clerks told the Tribune that there was unexpectedly high turnout.

Once or twice a week, we'll be posting Q&As with experts answering voting questions and concerns.

First up: The Guardian has reported that a supporter of Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump is planning to conduct his own exit polling on Election Day, in hopes that he and a team of volunteers might be able to catch “rigged” results.

Happy Monday! It’s a big day for early voting, with five states opening up polling stations to allow worm-getters to cast their ballots.

To figure out what's on that ballot, you can type the following secret code in Google: “What is on my ballot” (really!). You can use the trick for “Where do I vote.” (Google is our partner on Electionland. But come on, that's seriously useful.)

Early voted started yesterday in North Carolina, and some voters in Charlotte have been met with some pretty long lines. The feisty election has produced quite a bit of enthusiasm, which may be producing more turnout than workers were expecting. But, the state also slashed early voting locations and hours and eliminated straight ticket voting, which means there are fewer polling places and it takes longer to vote.

Those who did wait in lines in Charlotte took to Twitter to tell their tales.

There's a potential lesson in Donald Trump's 2004 voting experience: Even if poll workers don't have your name on their list, you may still have an opportunity to vote. Trump did it, after all.

The Republican presidential nominee appears to have voted by provisional ballot in the 2004 general election, according to an "Access Hollywood" video with Billy Bush (not the one that featured him boasting about groping women).