Elections

A Nevada judge in Las Vegas has dismissed a criminal indictment against six Republicans accused of submitting certificates to Congress falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner of the state’s 2020 presidential election.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. failed to qualify for the first presidential debate hosted by CNN next week.

The nearly 1,000-page handbook led by the Heritage Foundation seeks to restructure government with conservative policy recommendations if a Republican president retakes the White House.

Extreme heat in Arizona sent nearly a dozen people to the hospital as they waited to enter a campaign rally with former president Donald Trump on Thursday.

A ghost from recent election cycles — controversies over certification of results — is beginning to re-emerge as the nation heads closer to the fall presidential contest.

Voters in New Jersey on Tuesday will choose candidates vying to replace Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, who is on trial in federal court in New York on corruption charges and has opted not to run in the state’s Democratic primary. Menendez, who has held the seat for more than 18 years, has said he would consider running in the general election as...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday set a July primary and a September general election to fill the Newark-based U.S. House seat that opened after Rep. Donald Payne Jr.’s recent death. Murphy signed a writ of election, required under state law. The July 16 primary will be about a month after the state’s regularly scheduled June 4 contest, followed...

The Brennan Center survey also found 62% of local election officials are concerned about political leaders’ attempting to interfere with how they do their jobs.

Tributes poured in to honor the dynamic legacy left behind by Rep. Donald Payne Jr., who died Wednesday at the age of 65. For more than a decade, he served New Jersey’s 10th District. His impact extended beyond the Garden State as a member of several committees including the Congressional Black Caucus. NBC New York’s Pat Battle reports.

Research provided to NBC News shows turnover in local election offices has been increasing for years, suggesting the issue goes beyond post-2020 threats.

New Jersey county clerks have withdrawn their appeals to a federal court ruling requiring them to redraw primary election ballots that some argued favored candidates backed by the state’s Democratic Party. The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals based in Philadelphia dismissed the appeals on Friday in response to the clerks’ action. U.S. Judge Zahid Quraishi had ordered Democrats to scrap a...

No Labels, the bipartisan group that had been working toward putting a third-party presidential ticket on the ballot in all 50 states in 2024, announced Thursday that it was ending its efforts.

It’s finally New York’s turn to weigh in on the presidential primary. Early voting kicked off on Saturday across the Empire State and runs until March 30. Polls will not be open the following day, March 31, because of the Easter holiday. Saturday is also the deadline to register in-person or by mail to vote in the April contest. The…

Election Day has been held on Tuesdays since the mid 1800’s. Here’s why…

Election Day in America has fallen on a Tuesday for more than a century. But why was this seemingly-random – and inconvenient – weekday picked in the first place?

Former President Donald Trump is looking to win his fourth straight primary state on Saturday over Nikki Haley in South Carolina. Trump went into the primary with a huge polling lead and the backing of the state’s top Republicans. Haley has spent weeks warning that the dominant front-runner, who is 77 and faces four indictments, is too old and distracted...

A conservative group and its former leader are taking the unusual step of publicly acknowledging that claims of ballot mishandling at a Pennsylvania post office in 2020 were wrong.

Some states have invoked the amendment to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot.

Can Donald Trump be president again if convicted of a felony? Here’s what the U.S. Constitution says about who can be president.

Can candidates for U.S. public offices run while under indictment or if they’ve been convicted of crimes? Turns out, it’s happened before.