The District has failed to remove from its voting rolls as many as 13,000 former residents who years ago moved to Prince George's County and cast ballots there, making fraud by voting in two jurisdictions as easy as going to the polls in their old ne ...

DENVER - In a bitter fight, Colorado Democrats recently muscled through the Statehouse a massive elections reform bill that allows voters to register up until Election Day and still cast their ballots. It's the latest - and most substantial - develop ...

NEW YORK - Hundreds of thousands of New York City immigrants could get the right to vote in local elections under a proposal before lawmakers. A City Council hearing is set Thursday on a plan to allow people who are in the country legally, but aren't ...

COLUMBIA -- Mark Sanford spoke of a God of "eighth chances" during his acceptance speech Tuesday night, but the former S.C. governor's return to elected office owed as much to pocketbook issues as forgiveness. Reminding voters of his fiscally conserv ...

WASHINGTON - America's blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which blacks strongly supported Barack ...

RICHMOND -- Virginia is on its way to becoming a photo identification voting state. Gov. Bob McDonnell moved the Old Dominion in that direction this week by signing into law legislation requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls beginning next Ju ...

[caption id="attachment_21684" align="alignright" width="300"] Robin Kelly (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)[/caption]CHICAGO - Former Illinois legislator Robin Kelly captured the Democratic nomination Tuesday in the race to replace disgraced ex-U.S. R ...

With the North Carolina General Assembly getting set to swing into session next week, lawmakers will find their plates full of pressing issues when they take their seats in the House and Senate. However, there probably isn't a bigger issue on their a ...

CHARLOTTE - If some Republican leaders had their way, states in which the GOP controls legislatures and governors' offices soon would reshape election laws. Maine and Nebraska moved away from a winner-takes-all system of awarding Electoral College vo ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Tradition trumped suspense Monday as members of the Electoral College cast the official, final votes in an exhausting 2012 presidential election, a constitutional formality on President Barack Obama's march to a second term. Th ...