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Next term, the Supreme Court could rule on Moore v. Harper, a North Carolina case that could change the balance of power between a state’s legislature and its courts. That could have profound effects on elections and a state court’s ability to check the power of a state legislature, and limit the court’s influence on procedures like redistricting and voting...

Politicians often overlook young adults, but 18- to 25-year-olds are flexing political muscle in ways they can no longer ignore.

If you go by the headlines, you may think that we have a big problem with voter fraud in this country. We don’t. The Bren­nan Center for Justice at New York University’s School of Law, which has studied voter fraud for years, has found rates of fraud to be between 0.0003 and 0.0025%. That means an American is more...

Of the 301 bills related to elections that became law in 2021, 117 improved voter access, and 47 restricted it. (The rest were neutral or mixed.) NBCLX storyteller Jalyn Henderson breaks down why voter fraud in the U.S. is not actually a widespread problem and how many states are actually making it easier to vote.

Two weeks to go to the first round of France’s presidential election and the political debate is heavily focused on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Former President Donald Trump also is seen negatively by a large group of Americans, which might be the one bright spot for President Joe Biden.

Manchin said he would support Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination after he broke with President Biden and his party on some major issues.

Biden spoke at NATO, where he and other leaders of the alliance’s countries discussed responses to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

The lawsuit by Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton comes years after the Republican defeated the Democrat in the 2016 presidential election.

Rep. Mo Brooks says Donald Trump suggested a plan to oust Joe Biden from the White House and call a new election that could restore Trump to it.

Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama lost Donald Trump’s backing for his Senate race despite endorsing claims that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election by fraud.

The election will take place in-person at the facility, just a few weeks after an election is held at another Amazon warehouse known as JFK8.

Republicans promoting claims of widespread voter fraud in at least two politically important states are turning to a new tactic to appease voters who falsely believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen

The number of rejected mail ballots in Texas soared to nearly 13% across most counties in the nation’s first election of 2022

Top Democrats are pleading for President Joe Biden to act alone on some of the party’s core legislative priorities.

Mark Meadows, who as chief of staff to President Donald Trump promoted his lies of mass voter fraud, is facing increasing scrutiny about his own voter registration status.

It’s a common misconception that all formerly incarcerated people lose the ability to vote. In fact, in most states, after you’re released from prison or after your parole or probation ends, your right to vote is automatically restored. But laws allowing the formerly incarcerated to vote don’t matter if formerly incarcerated people don’t know about them, right? That’s why...

President Emmanuel Macron confirmed Thursday that he will run for a second term as the French leader.

While President Joe Biden outpaced former President Donald Trump by more than 7 million votes in 2020, another politician was busy winning her job in Washington by a much smaller margin: six votes. “I’m the poster child for why your vote matters,” Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks — an Iowa Republican whose single-digit margin of victory came in a district of 567,000…

We’ve all been tempted to sit out an election by convincing ourselves one vote doesn’t matter that much. But the truth is a single-digit number of votes can have a big impact on federal and local policies. NBCLX political editor Noah Pransky looks back at several elections where only a few votes made a big difference.