An old-fashioned, four-legged polling booth is on display in the lobby of the Salt Lake County clerk’s office. Its metal ...

Canvassers stop passersby in front of a local grocery store or town library and ask them if they’d be willing to sign a ...

A historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and ...

The new restriction, paired with Indiana’s stringent voter ID rules, would make it much harder for many young people to vote ...

As millions tuned in to watch the Super Bowl in New Orleans this month, outside the Superdome in the central French Quarter, ...

Who are the local and state officials responsible for counting, canvassing, and certifying elections? On this page, Bolts maps out each state’s system. It lays out who is responsible for the different ...

This page compiles, state-by-state, the local offices that administer elections at the state, county, and municipal level. It lays out who oversees the preparation and conduct of the election, from ...

T.R. Edwards grew up with stories from his grandmother Kathleen about her struggle to vote as a Black woman in Wisconsin: A child of the Jim Crow south, she’d moved to Madison in the 1970s, and then ...

Florida Republicans spent weeks squabbling over rival immigration bills. Their conflict wasn’t over significant policy differences: They agreed on diverting hundreds of millions in state funds toward ...

After two Connecticut businesses were found to have played a large role in U.S. executions in the past five years, lawmakers are proposing a bill that would make it illegal for state companies to ...