Elections

A federal judge has denied a motion to extend voter registration in Florida even though a computer meltdown might have prevented thousands of potential voters from taking part in November’s presidential election

The New England Journal of Medicine, one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world, on Wednesday broke with a nearly two-century tradition of avoiding politics to lambast U.S. politicians for their handling of the coronavirus pandemic, reports NBC News.

Hackers working for Russia, China and Iran have recently escalated their attacks around the U.S. presidential race as Election Day looms, Microsoft says.

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The service has already been on a collision course with Trump over the president’s opposition to mail-in or absentee ballots.

Jackie Nespral speaks to presidential candidate Joe Biden on the challenges facing the nation and South Florida on this segment of NBC 6 Impact.

The president of Puerto Rico’s elections commission will be resigning immediately, nearly a month after a chaotic and unfinished primary forced a second round of voting in an unprecedented event for the U.S. territory, NBC News reports.

The effort to register Florida’s newly eligible felons to vote is being stymied by the coronavirus pandemic and a disputed requirement that felons pay a series of costs

Puerto Ricans demanded answers Monday after botched primaries forced officials to reschedule voting at centers lacking ballots, an unprecedented decision being called a blow to the U.S. territory’s democracy. The island’s elections commission remained silent as anger and embarrassment spread across Puerto Rico one day after hundreds of voters were turned away from shuttered centers that for unknown reasons...

There’s a lot of talk right now about how we get our vote to the ballot box. Is in-person or mail-in voting safer? Are dead people voting? And why don’t we vote online? Here’s what you need to know about how we vote, explained with some of our favorite old-school video games.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says the government will postpone highly anticipated legislative elections by one year, citing a worsening coronavirus outbreak in the semi-autonomous Chinese city

Businesswoman Lauren Boebert has upset five-term Colorado U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton in the Republican primary for the 3rd Congressional District

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

Kentucky and New York held primaries on Tuesday, but the results of the closest races won’t be known for another week

A young media executive has beaten back a field of Democratic primary opponents to win a spot taking on Republican Sen. David Perdue in November

With an easy win in his Republican primary, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is now preparing to confront Democrat Jaime Harrison

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

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