Elections

A long time Paterson councilman is the first city official to demand a recount for what he calls widespread voter fraud.

The recount request comes after the councilman lost his reelection bid by 245 votes, in a ward where 25 percent of the vote was thrown out due to claims of vote stealing and ballot fraud

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

It was not immediately clear what ward the vast majority of those ballots were from, or which candidates were voted for in the disqualified ballots

In Paterson, New Jersey, over eight hundred ballots were eliminated due to ballot stuffing and other allegations, however two thousand other ballots have been eliminated without an explanation.

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

Videos have shown ballots left behind in apartment building lobbies, while other residents complained that ballots were either never delivered to them or had their votes stolen. NBC New York’s Adam Kuperstein reports.

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

More than 800 mail-in votes in one of New Jersey’s largest cities have already been set aside as an election is marred by allegations of voter fraud

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

More than 800 mail-in votes in one of New Jersey’s largest cities have already been set aside, according to a county spokesperson, as an election is marred by allegations of voter fraud. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

There are questions of possible voter fraud in Tuesday’s city council election in Paterson, New Jersey. Hundreds of ballots have been found mailed together in mailboxes in Paterson.

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 Democratic National Committee approved up to 12 debates, with six occurring in 2019 and six more set for 2020. The first four debates of 2020 will be held in early voting states, in some cases days before those contests. Who’s Running for President in 2020? The field of Democratic 2020 presidential candidates is packed, though some have already dropped out. Those…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party has pulled ahead to a significant lead over its opponents in Israel’s third election in under a year, though along with its ultra-religious and nationalist alliance still appeared to fall short of the parliamentary majority required to form a government

Iran’s interior ministry says voter turnout in recent parliamentary elections stood at 42.57%

A study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found serious security concerns in a voting app used in elections in West Virginia, Denver, Oregon and Utah