Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. The underlying premise of my column last week outlining a hypothetical 2028 Democratic platform ...

The Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act, introduced by House Administration Committee Chairman Representative Bryan Steil of Wisconsin, would establish federal requirements for voter ID, mail‑in ...

Choosing a winner sounds simple — until there are more than two options. The moment a third candidate enters the race, even “fair” systems can produce strange or counterintuitive results. Plurality ...

Democracy feels intuitive, fair, and rational, yet mathematics tells a far more troubling story. In the mid-20th century, a formal proof showed that no voting system can fairly translate individual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US President Trump has doubled down on his long-standing but debunked claims of widespread voter fraud (SAUL LOEB) (SAUL ...

A Republican voting overhaul is back on Capitol Hill — with an added photo identification provision and an altered name.

The ACLU’s new Congressional Scorecard tracks how elected officials voted in the current congressional session.

The latest idea from Trump -- who still refuses to acknowledge his 2020 election defeat by Democrat Joe Biden -- is to take responsibility for organizing elections away from some US states and hand it ...

State Auditor Dave Boliek created the panel and will chair it. The 22 voting members include county elections directors, county board chairs, academics and policy experts who will dig through vendor ...

Ahead of the midterm elections, Republicans are again pushing for legislation that requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to vote. The Trump-backed Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or ...

President claims idea to ‘nationalize’ elections in 15 states before midterms is to prevent rare noncitizen voting Donald Trump suggested on a conservative podcast released on Monday that Republican ...