One in three voters live in countries where the quality of elections is worse than it was five years ago, according to the Global State of Democracy Report 2024. "We see turnout dropping also around the world, while protests and riots around elections increase," says Dr Seema Shah, the...
Elon Musk, accompanying Trump on the campaign trail, has continued to claim that voting machines are used to rig elections digitally and has asked that counties hand count paper ballots insteads. What the public may not realize is that just about every state already uses paper ballots. ...
Voting, elections and election security have all been a frequent topic up on the 2024 campaign trail. Former President Donald Trump has continued to make false claims about the 2020 election as he seeks another term in the White House, and has begun to cast doubt o...
About 1.038 million people have registered to vote in the 13th post-independence general elections. According to the southern African country's electoral law, the polling will determine 61 members of the National Assembly and 609 local councilors, with the party that holds at least 31 parliament ...
Voters have seen Trump and Harris go up against each other just onceat a debatein September – and that might be the only opportunity they get, as Trump recentlysaidhe will not debate Harris again. What Is Early Voting and How Does It Work?
During the 2020 election, nearly 60 million peoplecast a ballotby Oct. 25, according to the U.S. Elections Project, run by Michael McDonald, a political science professor at the University of Florida who also runs the Election Lab. Democrats doubled the number of Republicans who returned...
Candidates for federal, state, and local offices also will be on the ballot for the 2024 election. As of Sunday, more than 424,000 ballots,both from early in-person voting and vote-by-mail, have been received by the Chicago Board of Elections, a little less than 300,000 fewer ballots ...
By an act of Congress on January 23, 1845, the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November was designated Election Day for future presidential elections. Back then, we were more of an agricultural society, and November was considered a good time for elections because the busy harvest ...
In May 2023, the State Great Khural, the country's parliament, passed amendments increasing the number of legislators from 76 to 126. A total of 1,294 candidates from 19 political parties and two coalitions, alongside 42 independents, are competing in the parliamentary elections. The elections...
May 3, 2024 Trump pushes ban of something already illegal House Speaker Mike Johnson and former President Donald Trump unveiled a bill Friday that would ban noncitizens from voting in elections, despite it already being illegal. CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa repo...