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“I told him to make it bigger,” she tells a colleague. “I’m not sure if this is the ‘bigger.’” ...

A few counties opted to accept ballots with missing or incorrect dates, prompting a challenge from Republicans.

The Pima County recorder said it was scary telling her staff about the email, which included the office’s address, even ...

It’s now up to the state Supreme Court to decide. Democrats are relying on precedent that they fought against to retain ...

For Trudy Hancock and her staff in Brazos County, the questions from right-wing skeptics keep coming. And the answers don’t ...

Republican Dave McCormick was 29,000 votes ahead of incumbent Democrat Bob Casey as of Wednesday, a gap of just 0.43%.

Election Day may be the end of the process for voters, but for election officials it is far from it. In the next few weeks ...

The truth is that when Americans get the tools to work on real issues in their local communities, they solve problems, and ...

CEO of Civic News Company, the publisher of nonprofit newsrooms Chalkbeat and Votebeat. Elizabeth co-founded Chalkbeat in 2014. Since its launch, Chalkbeat’s reporting has spurred changes in education ...