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How Elections Work
The mechanics of how elections work in the United States are often very technical and specific. Here's what you need to know.
A guide to understanding the conflict between improving election security and safeguarding voting rights.
It’s a technical, often confusing process involving maps, math, and politics. Here are 7 questions to test your knowledge.
Our staff nominated nine housepets as candidates. Find out which animal clawed its way to the top.
Write-in votes frequently lead to ties in municipal election cycles.
It’s a technical, often confusing process involving maps, math, and politics. Here are 7 questions to test your knowledge.
The legislation arose after Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s failed attempts to get off the presidential ballot in 2024.
Our staff nominated nine housepets as candidates. Find out which animal clawed its way to the top.
The proposal would also require counties to perform risk-limiting audits of results.
A guide to understanding the conflict between improving election security and safeguarding voting rights.
Three counties are getting rid of ballot-marking machines and having voters fill in their choices by hand.
Ranked choice voting is still a new, unfamiliar concept for most Americans. Tell us your questions, so we can help you understand it better.
The president, seizing on assertions by Vladimir Putin, promises to ‘lead a movement’ for paper ballots. But here’s what you should know about the security of voting by mail.
Counties with traveling technicians can get problems at polling sites fixed quickly.