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The legislation would give local governments the option of allowing candidates for nonpartisan local school boards and committees to run on party lines.
Joe Davidson’s column “was killed because it was deemed too opinionated under an unwritten and inconsistently enforced policy, which I had not heard of previously,” he wrote
Miami postponed its 2025 elections. Why did the city do it? The move would schedule city elections to coincide with even-year midterms and presidential elections, but is opposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and others.
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A federal appeals court has overturned a self-styled right-wing propagandist’s conviction for spreading falsehoods on social media in an effort to suppress Democratic turnout in the 2016 presidential election.
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” signed July 4, includes a one-year moratorium on Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood that took effect immediately.
The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a Federal Election Commission rule limiting how much a political party can spend in coordination with candidates.
The Washington County Election Commission met to officially welcome its newest member and prepare for the next big election. While 2025 isn’t a major election year, officials said it’s still a crucial time to focus on planning, training and maintaining voter trust. New commissioner Alexis Ward said she’s ready to hit the ground running.
Although the 2025 session of the state Legislature ended May 5, local election officials are still trying to determine how some new laws will affect the election process.
As the House moved to pass the GOP's marquee bill, Democrats began testing out the attacks they hope will win them back Congress in 2026.
The report found the 2024 presidential election saw a drop in Election Day voting and a corresponding increase in early, in-person voting. Election Day voting declined from 49% in 2022 to roughly 37% in 2024, when 35% took advantage of voting early.
WA taxpayers have spent nearly a quarter-of-a-million dollars topping up the pay of key state election staff following a litany of problems at the March poll.