Elections

President Trump threatened to withhold federal funds from Michigan and Nevada due to their plans to allow mail-in voting amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Experts say vote-by-mail is the safest route, but implementing it for the November presidential election has become a partisan debate.

New York state’s June 23 Democratic presidential primary will definitely take place now

Some Republicans claim that voting by mail increases fraud, but the evidence just doesn’t support those claims. So what’s the disconnect?

Supreme Court justices invoked fears of bribery and chaos to suggest they think states can require presidential electors to back their states’ popular vote winner in the Electoral College

Democratic members of the state’s Board of Elections have filed an appeal of a federal judge’s reinstatement of the New York presidential primary.

A federal judge is weighing whether Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers were wrong to stipulate that felons who had already served their time must also settle all legal debts before they can regain their right to vote

In a story April 19, 2020, about battleground politics, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s disaster declaration was made in response to majority Republicans’ trimming the terms of her emergency order

Election officials in some states are scaling back or eliminating opportunities for people to cast ballots in person in favor of voting exclusively by mail, as an effort to address concerns about voting during a global pandemic

The Democratic National Committee approved up to 12 debates, with six occurring in 2019 and six more set for 2020. The first four debates of 2020 will be held in early voting states, in some cases days before those contests.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party has pulled ahead to a significant lead over its opponents in Israel’s third election in under a year, though along with its ultra-religious and nationalist alliance still appeared to fall short of the parliamentary majority required to form a government

Iran’s interior ministry says voter turnout in recent parliamentary elections stood at 42.57%

A study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found serious security concerns in a voting app used in elections in West Virginia, Denver, Oregon and Utah

FBI Director Chris Wray says Russia is engaged in “information warfare” heading into the 2020 presidential election

President Donald Trump’s campaign announced on Thursday that it raised $46 million in the final quarter of 2019, which is far bigger than any quarterly total announced so far by any Democratic candidate.

President Donald Trump has taken a swipe at the late Democratic Rep. John Dingell during his raucous impeachment-day rally in Michigan. That drew a quick rebuke from the longtime Michigan congressman’s widow and successor in the House. Trump said at Wednesday’s rally in Battle Creek that Debbie Dingell had thanked him for providing “A-plus treatment” after her husband’s death in...

Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine has formally launched her bid for a fifth term in office. Her announcement on Wednesday sets up what’s expected to be the most expensive political race in state history. She told supporters in an email that her “bipartisan commonsense approach” is important in an era of bitter partisanship. The popular moderate Republican is...

A small group of President Donald Trump’s fiercest conservative critics is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump’s reelection and punish congressional Republicans deemed his “enablers.” The organization is known as the Lincoln Project. It represents a formal step forward for the so-called Never Trump movement, which has been limited largely to media commentary during Trump’s presidency. Organizers launched...

A federal judge on Monday put a pause on Georgia’s planned mass purge of its voting rolls, following an emergency request from a voting rights group founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones said in his order that the state should “maintain the status quo.” The motion was filed by Fair Fight Action in U.S. District Court,...

The candidates in each race were the top two vote getters from the first round of voting. They face off again after no one could secure the 50% plus one margin needed to win the first time around.