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There’s a lot of talk right now about how we get our vote to the ballot box. Is in-person or mail-in voting safer? Are dead people voting? And why don’t we vote online? Here’s what you need to know about how we vote, explained with some of our favorite old-school video games.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says the government will postpone highly anticipated legislative elections by one year, citing a worsening coronavirus outbreak in the semi-autonomous Chinese city

Massachusetts General Hospital’s Dr. Alister Martin started VotER, a program that allows doctors to help their patients easily register to vote, after studies found a direct correlation between voting and good health.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker responded Thursday to President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the November election should be delayed, saying there’s no reason why that should happen. “We held municipal elections in the Commonwealth over the course of the past few months, and in some cases at a point in time when our positive test rate was north of 10%,”...

Businesswoman Lauren Boebert has upset five-term Colorado U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton in the Republican primary for the 3rd Congressional District

Some Republicans claim that voting by mail increases fraud, but the evidence just doesn’t support those claims. So what’s the disconnect?

Kentucky and New York held primaries on Tuesday, but the results of the closest races won’t be known for another week

Gov. Chris Sununu filed for re-election to serve another term in New Hampshire Friday amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A young media executive has beaten back a field of Democratic primary opponents to win a spot taking on Republican Sen. David Perdue in November

With an easy win in his Republican primary, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is now preparing to confront Democrat Jaime Harrison

The Massachusetts State Legislature approved a bill to allow mail-in voting options amid the coronavirus pandemic.

President Trump threatened to withhold federal funds from Michigan and Nevada due to their plans to allow mail-in voting amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Experts say vote-by-mail is the safest route, but implementing it for the November presidential election has become a partisan debate.

New York state’s June 23 Democratic presidential primary will definitely take place now

Supreme Court justices invoked fears of bribery and chaos to suggest they think states can require presidential electors to back their states’ popular vote winner in the Electoral College

Democratic members of the state’s Board of Elections have filed an appeal of a federal judge’s reinstatement of the New York presidential primary.

In a story April 19, 2020, about battleground politics, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s disaster declaration was made in response to majority Republicans’ trimming the terms of her emergency order

Election officials in some states are scaling back or eliminating opportunities for people to cast ballots in person in favor of voting exclusively by mail, as an effort to address concerns about voting during a global pandemic

The coronavirus outbreak has brought serious concerns about voting.

The coronavirus outbreak has brought serious concerns about voting.