As the midterms draw closer, President Trump and his allies on the right have increased their attacks on mail voting while ...

SCOTUS allows states to keep accepting ballots that arrive after Election Day, even as conservatives on the court continue to ...

Mesa’s longtime partnership with ICE has emerged as a major fault line in the July elections, as organizers work to limit ...

The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to federal ...

This page compiles, state-by-state, the local offices that administer elections at the state, county, and municipal level. It lays out who oversees the preparation and conduct of the election, from ...

James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett are vying for Democrats’ U.S. Senate nomination in Texas (Bob Daemmrich/Texas Tribune via AP) The 2026 midterms really are starting. Five states hold all of their ...

This article is part of our coverage of how a pending Supreme Court case on the Voting Rights Act may affect local political power; read our earlier article on Tennessee. It was published in a ...

Editor’s note (March 3): Martin Moore narrowly prevailed in the Democratic primary for DA, and is poised to be the next prosecutor of Buncombe County. In Asheville, North Carolina, candidates for ...

The U.S. Postal Service began piloting a cost-cutting plan in 2023 to remove the machines that sort and postmark mail from local offices and instead consolidate mail processing in regional centers. As ...

Before Arkansas officials announced their plan to build a 3,000-bed prison in the rural northwest corner of the state, Colt Shelby hadn’t voted in at least 15 years. Shelby, who works in the oil and ...

Jordy Diaz and many other immigrant rights advocates in Maryland were crushed last spring when the legislature, in the final hours of its 2025 session, declined to pass a landmark bill to ban local ...

This article was produced by Bolts and republished in Spanish by Enlace Latino NC. Leer en español. Editor’s note (March 3): Carla Cunningham lost to Rodney Sadler on March 3, 70 to 22 percent. Last ...