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News Articles: Elections

Incumbent Prime Minister and leader of the center-right Social Democratic Party Luis Montenegro gestures while addressing his supporters following Portugal's general election, in Lisbon on Monday.

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  • Europe

Portugal's election falls short of ending political instability. Here's what to know

Sunday's vote delivered another minority government for the center-right party. The significant rise in support for the hard-right populist party adds uncertainty.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
 Georgia Power’s requested rate increase would add $16.29 – about $200 annually – to the average residential customer’s bill over the next three years, starting in 2023 with a $14.32 hike. John McCosh/Georgia Recorder

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  • Politics

Clock ticking for Georgia voter registration to elect two new members to Public Service Commission

Monday is the last day to register to vote in the June 17 primary to fill two Georgia Public Service Commission seats on an embattled board that has faced criticism for a series of Georgia Power rate hikes over the last several years.

May 19, 2025
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap and
  • Georgia Recorder
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is seen during a press conference on May 7 in Washington, D.C. Bondi's Department of Justice recently charged a few noncitizens for alleged illegal voting, citing assistance from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

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  • Elections

Trump's DOJ focuses in on voter fraud, with a murky assist from DOGE

President Trump and his allies have long made false claims of widespread noncitizen voting. Now, as the GOP pursues new restrictions, experts worry isolated arrests will be used to push the new rules.

May 17, 2025
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By:
  • Miles Parks and
  • Jude Joffe-Block
Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, seen here in 2023, has championed the new state education standards that include instructions for students to "identify discrepancies in 2020 election results."

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  • Elections

Oklahoma education standards say students must identify 2020 election 'discrepancies'

New academic standards in Oklahoma call for the teaching of "discrepancies" in the 2020 election, continuing the spread of a false narrative years after it was first pushed by Trump and his allies.

May 15, 2025
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By:
  • Beth Wallis
A demonstrator carrying a sign that says "VOTING RIGHTS NOW" walks across the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in 2022 in Washington, D.C.

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  • Elections

A federal appeals panel has made enforcing the Voting Rights Act harder in 7 states

After a challenge by Republican officials in North Dakota, a federal appeals panel struck down a key way of enforcing the Voting Rights Act's protections against racial discrimination in seven states.

May 14, 2025
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Boxes containing signatures supporting a proposed ballot measure to scale back Arkansas' abortion ban are delivered to the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., on July 5, 2024. Arkansas lawmakers this year passed new restrictions on citizen-led ballot measures.

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  • Elections

GOP-led states are passing new restrictions for voters to get issues on the ballot

Two dozen states allow citizens to propose ballot measures. But Republican lawmakers in many of those states are now adding hurdles to those efforts, saying they want to combat fraud.

May 08, 2025
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter speaks at a Trump campaign rally at the Savannah Civic Center on Sept. 24, 2024.

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  • Politics

Georgia congressman Buddy Carter launches 'MAGA warrior' GOP bid for 2026 Senate race against Ossoff

The Southeast Georgia lawmaker becomes the first Republican to enter the U.S. Senate race against Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff.

May 08, 2025
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks to the press at the Georgia State Capitol after signing a religious freedom bill into law on Friday, April 4.

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  • Politics

Georgia's Brian Kemp becomes latest swing state governor to decline a run for Senate

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says he is passing on running for the senate in next year's midterm elections, a blow to Republicans who spent months courting him to challenge Democratic incumbent.

May 08, 2025
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  • Sam Gringlas
Voters line up to cast their ballots at Allegiant Stadium on Nov. 5, 2024, in Las Vegas, behind a sign reading "Vote, Bumoto, Vote" — directions in English, Tagalog and Spanish.

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  • Politics

Asian American voters backed Trump in Nevada. Here's how they feel about him now

After backing Joe Biden in 2020, Asian American voters in Nevada swung decisively toward Donald Trump in 2024. Now, they reflect on how his presidency is going so far.

May 02, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
A sign for new voter registration is seen outside a polling location in Derry, N.H., on March 11.

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  • Elections

Judge pauses parts of Trump's sweeping executive order on voting

A federal judge has paused a key section of President Trump's executive order that makes sweeping changes to voting and elections.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Jude Joffe-Block
A woman votes at a polling location at The Chapel, an Evangelical church in St. Joseph, Mich., on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024.

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  • Elections

Will the SAVE Act make it harder for married women to vote? We ask legal experts

Legal experts say states could help married women who have changed their last names by accepting documents like a legal decree or a marriage certificate, but it might not fix the issue for all.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.), Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) (left), and Ken Cuccinelli (background), former attorney general of Virginia, hold a news conference on the House steps of the U.S. Capitol to introduce the "Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act," which would mandate proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration in federal elections, on Wednesday, May 8, 2024.

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  • National

What the SAVE Act could mean for millions of voters, according to a Brennan Center expert

The SAVE Act would require proof of citizenship to be able to register to vote. NPR's Michel Martin asks Sean Morales-Doyle of the Brennan Center for Justice what that could mean for voters.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • Michel Martin
Investor Antonio Gracias at a town hall rally held by Elon Musk in Green Bay, Wis., on March 30. Gracias, who is part of Musk's Department of Government Efficiency team, has been working at the Social Security Administration.

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  • Politics

How DOGE may have improperly used Social Security data to push voter fraud narratives

A DOGE staffer working in the Social Security Administration has been pushing questionable claims about noncitizens voting — apparently using data that court records suggest DOGE shouldn't have.

April 14, 2025
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler and
  • Jude Joffe-Block
Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy, center, and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, center left, celebrate the conservative network's initial public offering on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on April 3.

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  • Media

Judge finds Newsmax aired false and defamatory claims about voting-tech company

A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.

April 09, 2025
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By:
  • Maddy Lauria
An election worker sorts vote-by-mail ballots for the presidential primary at King County Elections in Renton, Wash., in March 2020.

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  • Politics

Trump's election order could jeopardize 'hundreds of thousands' of future mail ballots

Eighteen states count mail-in ballots that are received after Election Day, but a new order by President Trump challenges the practice.

April 08, 2025
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  • Ashley Lopez
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