Jessica Huseman for Votebeat

Government

Why Trump wants to ban barcodes on ballots, and what it means for voters and election officials

Election workers scan ballots at the scanning stations of the Philadelphia City Commissioners Office and Election Warehouse on Election Day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 5, 2024.

Politics

Job satisfaction among election administrators continues to sink, survey shows

Denver Elections personnel administrator Elizabeth Littlepage, left, and election worker William Goad, sort through ballots that need to go to specific counties at the Denver Elections Division.

News

Fights over elections have left wounds that won't heal in this US county

Clerk election specialists prepare to feed ballots into the tabulator/scanner at the Shasta County Clerk & Elections office in Redding in 2022.