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FILE - In this handout photo provided by Photo host Agency RIA Novosti, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune addresses a plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, June 16, 2023. President Tebboune’s surprise decision to schedule elections earlier than expected in Algeria is prompting suspicion and appears to be awakening discouraged political parties from a deep lethargy.(Alexei Danichev/Photo host Agency RIA Novosti via AP, File)

Algerians question president for calling an early election without announcing his own campaign

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s surprise decision to schedule elections earlier than expected in Algeria is prompting suspicion and appears to be awakening discouraged political parties from a deep lethargy.

FILE - Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, presidential candidate for the opposition conservative VMRO-DPMNE party, talks to the media after voting for the presidential election, in Skopje, North Macedonia, May 5, 2019. North Macedonia’s presidential race kicked off on Thursday April 4, 2024, with seven candidates vying for the largely ceremonial post in a two-round vote that will conclude on May 8. Current polls are led by incumbent President Stevo Pendarovski and former candidate Gordana Siljanovska Davkova. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski, File)

North Macedonia starts month-long presidential campaign season

FILE - U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., addresses attendees at the Republican Party of Florida Freedom Summit, Nov. 4, 2023, in Kissimmee, Fla. To continue holding his seat in Florida, Scott needs to appeal to key voter groups in the state. With a new series of ads rolled out by the senator, Scott is spending multiple millions to focus on the prominent Florida Hispanic voter group as part of this goal. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

US Sen. Rick Scott spends multiple millions on ads focused on Florida’s Hispanic voters

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks, Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at a rally in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)

Trump and the Republican Party say they raised more than $65.6 million in March

Turkish President and leader of the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, arrives to vote to a polling station in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, March 31, 2024. Turkey is holding local elections on Sunday that will decide who gets to control Istanbul and other key cities. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Turkey’s top election authority restores newly elected pro-Kurdish mayor’s right to hold office

AP Explains: Mexico’s likely next president is a climate scientist, but politics has her mostly quiet on the threat

Mexico will elect a new president in June, at a time when climate change is already challenging the country in many ways. But don’t expect the leading candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist, to make climate a central part of her campaign ahead of the June 2 election. (AP Video by Mike Pesoli. Produced by Teresa de Miguel)

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Former candidate for Maryland governor fined over campaign material

The campaign committee of a former candidate for Maryland governor has been fined $2,000 for sending campaign material without an identifying authority line.

First Democrat enters race for open Wisconsin congressional seat in Republican district

A doctor from De Pere becomes the first Democratic candidate in Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District.

Lawsuit asks judge to disqualify ballot measure that seeks to repeal Alaska’s ranked voting system

A lawsuit from three Alaska voters asks a judge to disqualify a ballot measure that seeks to repeal the state’s open primary and ranked vote elections system.

FILE - Wisconsin's Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos talks to reporters at the state Capitol, Feb. 15, 2022, in Madison, Wis. The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to offer clarity on what legislative district boundary lines should be in play for a potential recall election sought by supporters of former President Donald Trump targeting Vos. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)

Wisconsin Supreme Court refuses to clarify district boundaries for potential recall election

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has refused to offer clarity on what legislative district boundary lines should be in play for a potential recall election sought by supporters of former President Donald Trump targeting the Republican Assembly speaker.

Three-year old- K-Lee waits as her mother Heather Ramsey votes during the Spring election Tuesday, April 2, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Why AP called Wisconsin’s statewide ballot measures: Race call explained

The vote in Wisconsin to approve a pair of proposed constitutional amendments that would limit how state elections are run and paid for fell largely along party lines.

FILE - New York City Mayor Eric Adams gestures as he attends a news conference at City Hall in New York, March 19, 2024. Dwyane Montgomery, a former New York Police officer who prosecutors say was the ringleader of a campaign donations scheme to help Mayor Eric Adams during his winning 2021 run, was sentenced Tuesday, April2, 2024, authorities said. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Ex-police officer gets 200 hours community service for campaign scheme to help New York City mayor

A former police officer who prosecutors say was the ringleader of a campaign donations scheme to help New York City Mayor Eric Adams during his winning 2021 run has been sentenced.

FILE - Voters fill out ballots at an elementary school in Tesuque, N.M., on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. A federal judge has ruled, Tuesday, April 2, 2024, that New Mexico election regulators violated public disclosure provisions of the National Voter Registration Act in withholding voter rolls from a conservative group and its public online database. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)

Judge sides with conservative group in its push to access, publish voter rolls online

A federal judge has ruled that New Mexico election officials violated public disclosure provisions of the National Voter Registration Act by refusing to provide voter rolls to a conservative group and its public online database.

FILE - A former absentee ballot drop box has been transformed into a pro-democracy piece of art, Oct. 25, 2022, in Madison, Wis. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers urged the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, to overturn a ruling that banned absentee ballot drop boxes in the presidential battleground state. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)

Wisconsin governor urges state Supreme Court to revoke restrictions on absentee ballot drop boxes

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is urging the Wisconsin Supreme Court to once again allow absentee ballot drop boxes in places beyond the election offices they are now restricted to.

FILE - Pope Francis, left, and Pope Benedict XVI, meet each other on the occasion of the elevation of five new cardinals at the Vatican, on June 28, 2017. Pope Francis has exposed the political “maneuvers” to sway votes during the past two conclaves and denied he is planning to reform the process to elect a pope in a new book-length interview published Tuesday April 2, 2024. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool photo via AP, File)

Pope exposes confidential details of past conclaves and settles scores with Pope Benedict XVI’s aide

Pope Francis has exposed the political “maneuvers” used to sway votes during the two most recent elections of popes in a book-length interview.

Bassirou Diomaye Faye is sworn in as Senegal's president in Dakar, Senegal, Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Senegal has sworn in Bassirou Diomaye Faye as its new president, completing the previously little-known opposition figure’s dramatic ascent from prison to the palace in recent weeks. Faye was released from prison less than two weeks before the March election following a political amnesty announced by the outgoing president. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

Senegal swears in Africa’s youngest elected leader as president in a dramatic prison-to-palace rise

Senegal has inaugurated Africa’s youngest elected leader as president, as the 44-year-old and previously little-known Bassirou Diomaye Faye completed a dramatic ascent from prison to palace within weeks.

Kansas state Sen. Rick Kloos, R-Topeka, confers with Mike Heim, a member of the Legislature's legal staff, during negotiations between the House and the Senate over elections legislation, Monday, April 1, 2024, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Republicans are pushing to end the extra three days given to voters to return mail ballots, calling it a move that will increase confidence in election results. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Kansas GOP lawmakers revive a plan to stop giving voters 3 extra days to return mail ballots

The Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature has revived a proposal to stop giving voters three extra days after polls close to return mail ballots.

Three-year old- K-Lee waits as her mother Heather Ramsey votes during the Spring election Tuesday, April 2, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Wisconsin voters approve ban on private money support for elections

Private money to fund elections will be banned in Wisconsin after voters approved a constitutional amendment Tuesday put forward by Republicans in reaction to grants received in 2020 that were funded by donations from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

A voter braves a cold rain running to cast a ballot during the Spring election Tuesday, April 2, 2024, in Fox Point, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Biden and Trump win Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and Wisconsin primaries

Voters in four states weighed in on their parties’ presidential nominees, a largely symbolic vote now that both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have locked up the Democratic and Republican nominations.

An Iowa woman is sentenced in a ballot box stuffing scheme that supported husband’s campaign

The wife of a northwestern Iowa county supervisor has been sentenced to four months in jail in a scheme to stuff the ballot box to support her husband’s unsuccessful campaign for Congress.

FILE - Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi reviews an honor guard during his swearing-in ceremony for a second term in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024. Tshisekedi appointed the country's first female prime minister on Monday, April 1, fulfilling a campaign promise and making an important step towards the formation of a new government after being reelected late last year. (AP Photo/Guylain Kipoke, File)

Congo appoints its first female prime minister as violence surges in the east

Congo’s president has appointed the country’s first female prime minister, fulfilling a campaign promise and taking an important step toward the formation of a new government after his reelection late last year.

Two women sit near a campaign banner of Turkish President and leader of the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, Recep Tayyip in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, March 11, 2024. Turkey was coming to terms on Monday with the opposition's unexpected success in local elections which saw it outperform President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party and add to municipalities gained five years ago. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

After a huge setback in local elections, which way forward now for Turkey’s Erdogan?

Huge gains made by the opposition in Turkey’s local elections have led to questions about the path the country’s long-serving leader will take before the next round of voting in four years’ time.

Security vehicles escort a police van carrying Arvind Kejriwal, leader of the Aam Admi Party, or Common Man's Party, to Tihar prison from a local court, in New Delhi, India, Monday, April 1, 2024. A court in India on Monday placed a top opposition leader in two weeks of judicial detention after his 10 days in the custody of a federal agency expired, in a case that opposition parties say is part of a crackdown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on rivals ahead of a national election later this month. (AP Photo/Dinesh Joshi)

An Indian court sends a top opposition leader to jail until shortly before election

A court in Indian has placed a top opposition leader in two weeks of judicial detention after his 10 days in the custody of a federal agency expired.

FILE - Voters wait in line outside a polling center on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. Wisconsin's presidential primary contest Tuesday, April 2, 2024, clears the way for a general election campaign Democrats see as an opportunity unlike any in recent history, where new legislative maps could help the party at the top of the ticket. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Democrats hope Biden could get a boost from down-ballot races under Wisconsin’s new legislative map

Wisconsin’s presidential primary this Tuesday will clear the way for a general election campaign that Democrats see as an opportunity unlike any in recent state history.

Republican People's Party, or CHP, supporters gather to celebrate outside City Hall in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, March 31, 2024. Turkey's main opposition party retained its control over key cities and made huge gains elsewhere in Sunday's local elections, preliminary results showed, in a major upset to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had set his sights on retaking control of those urban areas. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

In setback to Turkey’s Erdogan, opposition makes huge gains in local election

Turkey’s main opposition party has retained its control over key cities and made huge gains in local elections.

President Joe Biden waves as he arrives Air Force One, Tuesday, March 29, 2024, in Hagerstown, Md. Biden is en route to Camp David.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Trump camp and the White House clash over Biden’s recognition of ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’

President Joe Biden is facing criticism from Donald Trump and religious conservatives for proclaiming March 31 — which corresponds with Easter Sunday this year — as “Transgender Day of Visibility.”

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump talks with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, Feb. 29, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. As Trump campaigns on the promises of mass deportations and pardons for those convicted in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, his ideas are being met with little pushback by a new era of Republicans in Congress. It's a shift from the first time around when Trump encountered early skepticism and, once in a while, the uproar of condemnation. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Some of Trump’s allies in Congress already support his 2025 ideas on deportations and Jan. 6 pardons

Donald Trump is campaigning on promises of mass deportations and of pardons for those convicted in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, and his ideas are being met with little pushback by a new era of Republicans in Congress.

A sign reminding voters they can cast their votes early in the April 2 presidential primary in Connecticut was placed outside the Stonington Town Hall in Stonington, Conn., on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. The four-day early voting period marks the first time voters can cast their votes early and in-person in Connecticut. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh)

Connecticut becomes one of the last states to allow early voting after years of debate

Connecticut has finally launched an early, in-person voting system years after almost every other state in the country decided to offer a similar option to voters.

President Joe Biden, center, and former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton participate in a fundraising event with Stephen Colbert at Radio City Music Hall, Thursday, March 28, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

President Joe Biden is lapping Donald Trump when it comes to campaign cash — and he’ll need it

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is raising gobs of cash. And it has an election-year strategy that aims to spend more — and spend faster.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd at a campaign rally Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

Trump posts video with an image of a hog-tied Biden, drawing criticism from the Democrat’s campaign

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is drawing criticism for posting a video on social media Friday that contains the image of a hog-tied President Joe Biden painted on the tailgate of a passing truck.

FILE - Eileen O'Neill Burke, a former appellate judge, responds to a question from a member of the Cliff Dwellers Club, Thursday, March 7, 2024, in Chicago. O’Neill Burke has won the Democratic primary for Cook County state’s attorney over Clayton Harris III, an attorney with party backing. The Associated Press called the race Friday, March 29. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Former Justice Eileen O’Neill Burke wins Democratic primary in Chicago-area prosecutor’s race

Former appellate court Justice Eileen O’Neill Burke has won the Democratic primary for Cook County state’s attorney over attorney Clayton Harris III.

Braun Senate campaign must pay $138,000 fine for campaign finance violations

U.S. Sen. Mike Braun’s Senate campaign must pay a $159,000 civil penalty to the Federal Election Commission for violating campaign finance rules during the 2018 election.

President Joe Biden, right, and former presidents Barack Obama, left, and Bill Clinton participate in a fundraising event with Stephen Colbert at Radio City Music Hall, Thursday, March 28, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden says his glitzy fundraiser with Obama and Clinton projects party unity heading into November

President Joe Biden says his record-setting fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall shows that Democrats are united in ways that Republicans can’t match.

FILE - People vote at the Milwaukee County Sports Complex, on Nov. 3, 2020, in Franklin, Wis. Voters in the pivotal swing state of Wisconsin and three northeastern states will have a chance to indicate their support or opposition to their parties' presumptive nominees in presidential primaries Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Voters will also decide the fate of two Republican-backed statewide ballot measures that will shape how elections in the state are run and funded. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Wisconsin’s presidential primaries and ballot questions

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will compete in the Wisconsin presidential primaries, a contest that’s now less about winning delegates and more about carrying the pivotal state in November.

FILE - Representative Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., talks during a hearing on Capitol Hill, Jan. 10, 2024, in Washington. Two Republicans will compete on Tuesday, April 2, for the right to challenge Thompson, a16-term Democratic incumbent, in Mississippi's second congressional district. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Mississippi’s US House primary runoff

Two Republicans are competing for the right to challenge 16-term Democratic incumbent Bennie Thompson in Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District.

Former South Africa leader Jacob Zuma is barred from running in elections, election authority says

South Africa’s election commission has ruled that former President Jacob Zuma is not eligible to run in upcoming elections.