Top Election News and Analysis
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AI caused less damage through misinformation or election administration than predicted in 2024. New laws meant to combat political deepfakes, meanwhile, went largely unenforced. -
A state Supreme Court justice won a narrow victory in November. Her challenger argues tens of thousands of votes should be thrown out.
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Los Angeles County voters have approved changes that include an expansion of the county Board of Supervisors and creation of a separate executive leader. Reform advocates had pushed for such changes for decades and an atmosphere of scandal helped them succeed.
When a sports team loses, its fans don't hang around for the postgame show.
It could be a very different landscape than the one that will decide this year’s election. Will North Carolina be the next Pennsylvania?
Following the Montgomery County commissioners’ unanimous decision, election officials will now have to generate manual ballots for residents outside of Texas and retrofit the more than 1,000 machines with an older version of the software.
Members of the state’s Election Board need to be referees, not cheerleaders, but Donald Trump has made clear he considers some of them on his team.
Suburbs of the state’s small cities, like Harrisburg, are slightly moving away from the solidly red voting trends of previous years. Trump won Lower Allen, Pa., by 1,000 votes in 2016 but by only 129 in 2020.
San Francisco residents will vote in November on whether they want to permanently close two miles of coastline road from cars, which, if passed, will become a historic pedestrian project. But the city is deeply divided on the project’s impacts.
Trump-era politics have made the New Hampshire governor's race a guessing game. In nearly every other state with an election for governor, there's a pretty predictable outcome.
Election deniers are running for election administration jobs in some states. What would it look like to make changes they want to see?
Vice President Kamala Harris proposed a $40 billion “housing innovation fund” to help local governments build more affordable housing. It could be a potential break from most federal housing assistance programs, which are tightly defined.
There are no statewide candidates in South Carolina this year, allowing the state’s two major parties to focus on local races. Seventeen of the 170 legislative district races will be especially competitive.
Deepfake images and videos are just one way AI could disrupt the upcoming election. Experts are highlighting risks that could cause bigger problems and helping election officials prepare for them.
Presidents who used to run states sometimes stiff them when it comes to making policy.
He hasn’t done as well as other Midwestern Democrats in rural America. It’ll be hard for the Minnesota governor and vice presidential candidate to overcome Donald Trump’s appeal to rural sentiments of discontent.
The state Supreme Court affirmed a lower court’s decision allowing an initiative on RCV to appear on the November ballot. Critics say the system is too confusing and disadvantages partisan candidates.
At a historic low for divided government, thousands of state lawmakers are on the ballot, and control of some statehouses hangs in the balance.
Her poll numbers mean down-ballot Democrats have more hope than they would have under President Joe Biden. Democrats will also be supporting abortion ballot measures in at least eight states.
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