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Government & Politics

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.

Government & Politics

How one city scrambled to resolve a tied election vote

Close up of three wooden dice on a desktop, one in sharp focus, with a gray background.

Government & Politics

Texas lawmakers are mostly silent on addressing threats to ballot secrecy

Poll workers return voting equipment to central county station workers.

Government & Politics

With Texas' paper-based voter registration system, applications get lost in the shuffle

Hannah Murry poses for a photo at Texas A&M University.

Government & Politics

How Texas election officials are dealing with a flood of challenges to voter registrations

Voter registration applications hang in a rack at a Texas county elections office in 2024.

Government & Politics

Texas conservatives want to end countywide voting. The costs could be high.

Pollworkers put out signs in El Paso, TX for the midterm election in 2018.

Government & Politics

Gillespie County's election worker costs more than double after switch to hand count

An election worker hand counts ballots inside of The Edge, a winery in Fredericksburg on Mar. 5, 2024.

Government & Politics

Texas elections officials shoulder new burdens to appease ballot-security skeptics

Voters cast their ballots at the West Gray Multiservice Center on Nov. 7, 2023 in Houston.

Government & Politics

Texas county's GOP officials declared election hand-count a success, but kept finding errors

County judges and election workers gather in a full room for the Republican canvass of the primary election.

Government & Politics

A new law aimed to increase voting access in rural counties. In South Texas it's having the opposite effect.

The Kiva Hut Community Center in Taft, Texas has been the town’s only early voting site for years.