Elections
California lawmakers have voted to limit when local governments can count election ballots by hand. Local leaders in Shasta County decided to get rid of the voting machines it uses to tabulate ballots.
Alabama’s effort to pause a redistricting order would result in two successive elections with a map that is racially discriminatory.
A former top executive at the failed FTX cryptocurrency exchange pleaded guilty Thursday to making tens of millions of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to U.S. politicians and engaging in a criminal conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transfer business.
Mississippi Democrats have named attorney Ty Pinkins as their new nominee for secretary of state to replace a candidate who left the race because of health problems.
Canada has announced that a judge will lead a public inquiry into whether China, Russia and other countries interfered in Canadian federal elections in 2019 and 2021 that re-elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals.
The Georgia prosecutor who has brought charges accusing former President Donald Trump and others of illegally trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election has sent a scathing letter to a congressman leading an inquiry into her investigation.
Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has denied allegations in a British television program that Islamic State-inspired extremists were used to carry out suicide bomb attacks in 2019 to create insecurity in the country and help him win election later that year.
Political ads using artificial intelligence on Google and YouTube must soon be accompanied by a prominent disclosure if imagery or sounds have been synthetically altered.
Concern for U.S. democracy has prompted the entities supporting 13 presidential libraries dating back to Herbert Hoover to call for a recommitment to the country’s bedrock principles.
For generations, the political face of Rhode Island was often Italian or Irish American. But that is changing.
Former Vice President Mike Pence is casting the 2024 election as a fight for the future of conservatism and the GOP.
Strong backing from rural voters has enabled a former congressional staffer to win a Republican special primary to fill a soon-to-be vacated congressional seat in Utah.
The number of convicted felons under investigation for voting in recent Wisconsin elections remains a small proportion of the total vote.
The vice president says those responsible for the effort to overturn the 2020 election and the US Capitol attack must be held accountable.
Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has pushed his opposition to Kentucky’s abortion ban to the forefront of his reelection campaign.
Prosecutors have indicted a man on attempted murder and other charges over an explosives attack on Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in April.
Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith is warning that former President Donald Trump’s “daily” statements risk tainting a jury pool in Washington in the criminal case charging him with scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Guatemala’s prosecutor for electoral crimes has asked the Supreme Court of Justice to strip five magistrates of the country’s top electoral authority of their immunity so they can be investigated on fraud allegations made by the loser of the Aug. 20 election.
A state judiciary disciplinary panel has rejected several complaints lodged against Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz alleging that she violated the judicial code of ethics for comments she made during the campaign.
Tennessee state Rep. Gloria Johnson has formally announced her campaign for U.S. Senate in 2024. The Democrat skyrocketed to national fame after narrowly surviving a Republican-led expulsion effort in the state Legislature.
Former White House aide Gabe Amo could become the first person of color to represent Rhode Island in Congress after winning a crowded Democratic primary for the state’s 1st Congressional District special election Tuesday in the heavily Democratic state.
The end of Labor Day would typically mark the start of a furious sprint to the Iowa caucuses as candidates battle for their party’s presidential nomination.
Huntington Mayor Steve Williams says he plans to run for West Virginia governor. That makes him the first — and so far only — Democratic candidate in the field eight months before the primary election.
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa says last month’s elections are a sign of the country’s “mature democracy.” He was speaking at his inauguration.
Several campaigns are placing a huge emphasis on South Carolina, where the Republican primary is traditionally the last chance for many White House hopefuls to break through before Super Tuesday.
The front-runners for their party’s presidential nomination, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, are barely campaigning in crucial early-voting states as the primary season enters the fall rush.
The U.S. Justice Department says a Texas man has pleaded guilty to threatening Georgia officials following the 2020 election.
Rudy Giuliani has pleaded not guilty to Georgia charges that accuse him of trying, along with former President Donald Trump and others, to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state.
As Brett Favre became ensnared in media attention for his connection to Mississippi’s sprawling welfare scandal, Gov.
A crowded field of candidates will be on the ballot in Rhode Island with an eye on replacing former Democratic U.S. Rep. David Cicilline.
Three candidates will compete in a special primary election in Utah for the Republican nomination to replace U.S. Rep.