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Election security officials have no evidence that ballots were deleted or lost by voting systems in this month's U.S. election, two security groups said in a statement released on Thursday by the lead ...

Every U.S. presidential election has its own lingo, like the "hanging chads" on voting cards in Florida that led to a landmark court battle in 2000. Below is some of the jargon used in the days ...

Voting equipment company Dominion Voting Systems, a target of false conspiracy theories since the 2020 election, has been ...

Dominion Voting Systems, the company at the center of false fraud claims about the 2020 election, has been acquired by an ...

The Wisconsin Department of Justice is asking a judge to immediately put on hold his order that would require elections officials to verify the citizenship of all 3.6 million registered ...

On Oct. 3, the campaigns will file updated fundraising reports. In the last filing from August, the four candidates on the general ballot reported having raised a total $35.7 million since the start ...

The Tanzanian government has intensified political repression, raising grave concerns that the general elections scheduled ...

Shasta County supervisors approved over $131,000 for the elections official to test a new ballot processing system. The county's top election official has removed all but four ballot drop boxes. A ...

Election charges against a sitting elected county official are being suspended and will likely be dropped. In July, Marcus Buchanan, who was 56, was charged with illegal voting for allegedly violating ...

A new bill in Wisconsin aims to allow early processing of absentee ballots the day before an election. The legislation is intended to speed up vote counting and prevent late-night shifts in results.