Politics & Government

Republican Gov. Brian Kemp speaks to supporters at a campaign stop in Marietta, Ga., on Nov. 3. Kemp emphasized how he kept businesses open during the pandemic despite criticism from Democrats and health experts. "Who was fighting for you then when the political winds were blowing a different way?" he said.

In Georgia, Kemp and Abrams underscore why governors matter

6:08pm November 04, 2022

Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams have competed before. Since then, the pandemic, the reversal of Roe v. Wade and the 2020 election have made governors even more visible.

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A Harris County election worker prepares mail-in ballots to be sent to Texas voters ahead of the 2020 election. After a GOP-backed law in 2021 changed rules for mail ballots, rejections spiked in this year's state primaries.

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Texas officials say they're rejecting fewer mail ballots than the primary's big spike

6:06pm November 04, 2022

by Ashley Lopez

Mail ballot rejections spiked in the Texas state primaries in March. In the general election, the percentage of mail ballots that have so far been flagged for rejection has dropped.

The new normal of election disinformation

5:09pm November 04, 2022

by Shannon Bond

Tech companies are showing people a little bit about misleading information so they're better equipped to recognize and resist it. And they've seen encouraging results — for now, anyway.

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Election deniers are seeking to become their state's top election official

4:50pm November 04, 2022

by Miles Parks

Several candidates who have repeatedly made baseless claims about the 2020 election are now seeking to become their state's top election official in the 2022 midterm elections.

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Oregon's newest Congressional district is a toss-up as Republicans make gains

4:39pm November 04, 2022

by Claudia Grisales

Oregon has long delivered for the Democratic Party. But in its newest Congressional district, the race is a toss-up as Republicans make gains across the state.

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Greensboro City Council clashes over how to spend remaining pandemic relief funds

3:14pm November 04, 2022

by April Laissle

Greensboro’s City Council is weighing how to spend federal funds from the American Rescue Plan Act. The city received a total of about $59 million in ARPA funding. Nearly $32 million of that is left.

Oprah Winfrey speaks during Oprah's 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus Tour at Chase Center on February 22, 2020 in San Francisco, California.

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Oprah rejects her protégé Dr. Oz and backs Democrat John Fetterman in Pa. senate race

3:07pm November 04, 2022

by Ashley Ahn

Winfrey brought on Oz as a regular guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show for more than five seasons in the early 2000s, giving him his big breakthrough.

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Election denialism's impact on democracies at home and abroad

12:31pm November 04, 2022

by David Ford

Despite repeated false claims by state politicians and their constituents that rampant voter fraud took place during the 2020 general election, out of the 5.5 million voters who cast ballots in Nor

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Vet the Vote is a national campaign to recruit military veterans and families to volunteer as poll workers.

Vetting the Vote: Military veterans volunteer as impartial poll workers

11:41am November 04, 2022

by Quil Lawrence

A group called Vet the Vote is encouraging military veterans to help with the critical shortage of election workers in an atmosphere filled with heated rhetoric and threats against poll workers.

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I voted early stickers are seen at a polling station Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Milwaukee.

Why aren't more moms running for office? One group is hoping to change that

11:32am November 04, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

Only 5.3% of all state legislators and 7% of members of Congress are women with children under the age of 18, according to a report by a group dedicated to getting mothers elected to public office.