An Illinois anti-corruption law prohibiting government contractors from making campaign contributions is being challenged as unconstitutional after a public housing management firm lost a contract because its founder made contributions to Democratic gubernatorial candidates.
Read moreNewly inaugurated Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspended a county elections supervisor on Friday, as fallout from last year’s vote recount continues into 2019.
Read moreCongo’s constitutional court is poised to rule as early as Friday on a challenge to the presidential election results. But the African Union continental body has issued a surprise last-minute request for Congo’s government to delay releasing final results, citing “serious doubts” about the vote.
Read moreFacing extinction after lawmakers set wheels in motion to outlaw the practice in 2018, the bail industry has qualified a referendum that will ask voters whether to scrap or restore California’s money bail system.
Read moreSilvio Berlusconi is back. Again. The three-time Italian premier, who has made a career out of rebounding from legal woes, personal scandal, heart trouble and political setbacks, is running for the European Parliament in May elections.
Read moreSen. Kirsten Gillibrand entered the growing field of 2020 Democratic presidential contenders Tuesday, telling television host Stephen Colbert that she’s launching an exploratory committee.
Read moreStanding under a clear blue sky in the city he led as mayor, Julian Castro, the former housing and urban development secretary announced on Saturday that he will seek the 2020 Democratic nomination for president.
Read moreA Florida elections supervisor suspended by former Governor Rick Scott must be given a formal hearing in front of the state Senate because he violated her right to due process, a federal judge ruled late Wednesday.
Read moreA three-term Iowa state senator says he plans to challenge longtime Congressman Steve King in next year’s Republican primary.
Read moreOutside the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections office in St. Petersburg, Florida, a young felon prepared to step inside and register to vote — escorted by her congressman.
Read moreVirginia Democrats proposed a series of new gun-control measures Monday as they gear up to try to regain the majority this fall when every seat in both chambers of the Legislature is up for grabs.
Read moreDemocratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has made her Iowa debut with all the look of a presidential candidate, bringing her brand of liberalism to the nation’s premier caucus state.
Read moreA federal corruption case against a powerful City Council member has rocked the crowded race for Chicago mayor, as some hopefuls sought Friday to distance themselves from Alderman Ed Burke while others painted their rivals as part of the city’s notorious machine politics he embodied for decades.
Read moreA Florida county can continue to hold nonpartisan elections for offices such as sheriff and tax collector as long as those races are decided only in the general election, not the primary, the state’s high court ruled Friday.
Read moreDays away from joining the Senate’s Republican majority, Sen.-elect Mitt Romney broadly criticized President Donald Trump’s policies and character and argued that the president “has not risen to the mantle of the office.”
Read moreA three-judge panel ordered the North Carolina Board of Elections to dissolve Friday amid the board’s decision to postpone an evidentiary hearing on possible absentee-ballot fraud by a Republican operative in two rural counties.
Read moreOutgoing California Governor Jerry Brown filed a lawsuit Thursday to block a ballot initiative he says will weaken voter-approved criminal justice reforms and lead back down the path to prison overcrowding in the Golden State.
Read moreAn elections supervisor suspended by Florida Governor Rick Scott over missteps during the midterms filed a federal lawsuit seeking to reclaim her job.
Read moreWhat’s an election campaign without shaking hands with potential voters? Congolese candidates in the thick of an Ebola outbreak, now the second deadliest in history, are finding out in uncomfortable ways.
Read moreRepublican U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin on Monday announced he’s continuing his effort to have Maine’s new election system used for the first time in a congressional race declared unconstitutional.
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