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Who are the local and state officials responsible for counting, canvassing, and certifying elections? On this page, Bolts maps out each state’s system. It lays out who is responsible for the different ...

This article is produced as a collaboration between Bolts and Mother Jones. For the first time since the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020, voters in Minneapolis and ...

In this complex chamber, some Democrats and independents are caucusing with the GOP while two Republicans don’t. The GOP hopes to strengthen its numbers, and many districts could change hands based on ...

These offices have wide powers over the scope of incarceration and the conditions of detention, issues that are on the ballot from Tampa and Savannah to Phoenix.

For more than 25 years, Mike Rose felt alone. After his son Jeremy was arrested at age 17 in 1994, sentenced to life in prison, Mike and his wife had no community with which to share the pain of ...

Our database compiles, state-by-state, the local officials who are responsible for administering elections at the county and municipal level.

Your Guide to Four Emerging Threats to the Voting Rights Act Conservatives are targeting Section 2 of the landmark civil rights law with a series of new legal arguments that risk unraveling it further ...

In North Dakota as elsewhere, Native voters face a triple threat: judges targeting the VRA, Trump officials hostile to discrimination laws, and a funding crunch depleting their work.