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Former President Jimmy Carter, a Georgia native, wrote a letter to GOP gubernatorial nominee Brian Kemp asking him to step down as secretary of state and hand off oversight of the state's elections to someone else since he is currently running for governor of the state.
States need to do more to help residents keep the lights on and stay connected to vital telecommunications networks.
The global decline of trust in government produces an array of complex questions and challenges for contemporary democracies.
The state hasn't elected a Democratic governor since 1994, but the progressive nominee is consistently -- and narrowly -- ahead in the polls against Republican Ron DeSantis.
Decline in black men's median wage, when adjusted for inflation, from 2016 to the first half of 2018.
A concurring opinion from Florida Supreme Court Justice Barbara Pariente in a ruling that allowed three bundled questions to appear on the state's November ballot. One of the questions, for instance, asks voters to ban offshore drilling and workplace vaping.
The Department of Justice and internet service provider trade associations, which sued the state for enacting a law that sets different ground rules for internet protections in California, have also agreed to put that lawsuit on hold until 2019.
For a long time, Christine Hallquist was unsure—of exactly who she was, of exactly what she could do. Not anymore. Today, as the Democratic nominee in Vermont, she’s now battling to become the nation’s first transgender governor.
Investigators who doubted the woman's story leaked their concerns to Daily News columnist Mike McAlary, who wrote she may have made up the attack in a story headlined "Rape hoax the real crime."
The county will now open a Sunday polling place at Prairie View City Hall and expand voting hours at the university's campus center on Monday through Wednesday of next week to 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., instead of the original 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Republican National Committee has apologized for inaccuracies in a mailer sent recently to Montana voters that could have resulted in votes coming in too late to count.
Several states have increased police presence at religious institutions. And religious leaders are grappling with the delicate balance between welcoming and wary.
Peduto told NBC's "Meet the Press," he believes that gun-control measures would go further to help stop these shootings.
Robert Bowers, the 46-year-old gunman, was charged with 11 counts of obstructing exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death, 11 counts of using firearms to commit murder, four counts of obstructing officers and wounding them, and three of use and discharge of firearms.
We're not making the use we should of forms of contraception that can dramatically reduce unplanned pregnancies and infant mortality.
For the second time in two years, Washington state voters opted not to tax greenhouse gas pollution.
States across the country have limited citizens' right to sue their state or local government. Voters in one of them, New Hampshire, revived it on Tuesday.
The constitutional amendment, allowing religious monuments in government buildings, will almost surely wind up in court.
New Hampshire state Rep. Timothy Smith, on his concerns about adding the "right to live free from governmental intrusion" into the state's Constitution. Ten other states have adopted similar language, and in November, it's up to voters whether New Hampshire -- the "Live Free or Die" state -- will.
Age of soon-to-be Wisconsin Rep. Kalan Haywood, who will likely be the youngest state lawmaker in the nation. He won his primary and faces no challenger in November.
The GOP is at risk of losing nine seats, while Democrats could lose three. If there's a big Democratic wave, Republicans could lose their majority.
Florida voters opted to automatically restore voting rights to former felons, affecting some 1.4 million residents. In Louisiana, voters instituted a five-year waiting period for felons to seek political office.
Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf on Wednesday signed legislation that also requires police to contact the state Human Services Department whenever they encounter a child who has been sexually exploited.
With early voting on campus restricted to three days, civil rights attorneys, voting rights advocates and local Democrats are now raising the specter that the hour-and-a-half waits that students faced at the polling location could not only dim student turnout but also violate state and federal law.
Those envelopes normally have an “additional postage required” box for stamps, but the language was not included on the sample envelope submitted to a printer earlier this fall, said board spokeswoman Rachel Coll.
Voters in 28 counties impacted by Hurricane Florence will have more flexibility to vote using absentee ballots.
The order directs state agencies to protect Oregon’s coastal economy by preventing activities associated with offshore oil and gas drilling.
The New York Times confirmed with multiple sources a phone call this week when county officials reportedly acknowledged the missing applications and vowed to inform the applicants of the error.
Seventeen Arizona Democrats sponsored a bill that would have directed $2 million to the secretary of state’s office for census communication and outreach, half of which was to be given to each county based on population, and half to each city and town, but it died in committee.
Nevada, a swing state, bucked the trend in 2016. That was when Nevada chose Hillary Clinton for president, when Democrats flipped the state legislature from red to blue and when the state delivered the first Latina senator to Washington D.C.
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