Hand-counting measure effort fizzles in North Dakota
A proposed ballot initiative in North Dakota to require hand-counting of election ballots won't advance.
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A proposed ballot initiative in North Dakota to require hand-counting of election ballots won't advance.
Wausau Mayor Doug Diny put on work gloves, donned a hard hat and used a dolly to cart away a drop box outside City Hall. The move is the latest example in swing state Wisconsin of the fight over whether communities will allow absentee ballot drop boxes.
As Election Day nears, it's likely your mailbox is filled with letters and mailers encouraging you to vote, sometimes for a specific party or just in general. But a certain type caught our attention.
As election day nears, it's likely your mailbox is filled with letters and mailers encouraging you to vote — and a certain type caught our attention.
Election season is heating up but people in one rural Minnesota town feel things are going too far. David Schuman visited Arlington in Sibley County, where police are concerned about campaign yard signs being stolen.
With Election Day fast approaching, election officials say now is the time to make plans to vote.
Election officials in Wisconsin asked the state's liberal-controlled Supreme Court on Thursday to decide whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 's name should stay on the presidential ballot.
Minnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is using the controversial conservative plan called Project 2025 to claim that a new Trump administration will monitor pregnancies.
Minnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is using the controversial conservative plan called Project 2025 to claim that a new Trump administration will monitor pregnancies.
Candidates for president and Congress are on the ballot across Minnesota this November. But two metro cities also have questions about changing how and when they vote in local elections. Caroline Cummings reports from Bloomington and St. Paul on those local ballot measures pushed by residents who live there.
Midwest Lutheranism has entered the national political limelight since Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz became Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate.
Former President Donald Trump declared "I hate Taylor Swift!" in a Truth Social post Sunday, days after she endorsed Kamala Harris.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court wrestled Tuesday with whether a Republican had standing to bring a lawsuit that challenges the use of a mobile voting van in 2022 and seeks to ban their use in any future election in the presidential battleground state.
As of January 2024, Minnesota's turnover rate for elections officials was 34%, meaning more than one-third of the people overseeing election administration this fall are new compared to those in 2020.
Uncommitted voters are hoping the Harris campaign does more and sits down with the Palestinian families before the election in November.
The Justice Department filed charges against two people and seized more than two dozen internet domains used in a Russian interference operation, officials said.
A sister of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz says she doesn't recognize the people wearing "Nebraska Walz's for Trump" T-shirts in a photo that is making the rounds on social media.
In a new interview on CNN, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says he's proud of his son, whose emotional moment at the Democratic National Convention went viral.
Three Libertarian candidates in Iowa running for U.S. Congress will not be named on election ballots this November after a panel ruled they failed to comply with state law.
In their first televised interview as Democratic presidential running mates, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz faced more questions about Walz's military service.
Donald Trump campaigned Thursday in Michigan and Wisconsin as the former president ramps up battleground state travel heading into the traditional Labor Day turn toward the fall election.
Republicans have turned Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's outing at a dog park nearly three years ago into an attack on the Democratic vice presidential nominee this week, building on a false online narrative that attempts to paint Walz as a liar.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted Tuesday to keep Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the presidential ballot, despite his request to be removed, and also rejected a Democratic attempt to oust independent candidate Cornel West.
In a deeply divided country, high school students from all walks of life attend the week-long Girls State for an exercise in democracy. Jane Pauley (a veteran of Hoosier Girls State) talks to young women engaging in mock political campaigns.
The longtime party figure and native Chicagoan previews this week's Democratic National Convention, and offers a message to his fellow Democrats about the prospects of the Harris-Walz ticket come Election Day.
