Elections

Voters check their phones while waiting to cast in-person ballots at a polling location in Austin, Texas, on Oct. 13, 2020. Many Americans wonder why they can't vote online, on their phones, but experts agree that it's not secure.

Politics & Government

Voting online is very risky. But hundreds of thousands of people are already doing it

1:33pm September 07, 2023

by Miles Parks

The advice from cybersecurity experts is unanimous: Internet voting is a bad idea. But it's already happening in every federal election. In 2020, more than 300,000 Americans cast ballots online.

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John Wahl, 37, is the youngest GOP state party leader in the country. He also runs a business as a butterfly farmer in Athens, Ala. "This is me, the chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, in his natural habitat," he told NPR during a visit to his butterfly farm.

This butterfly farmer wants to strengthen the Republican Party's hold on Alabama

5:11am September 07, 2023

Alabama Republican Party Chair John Wahl is the youngest state GOP chair. He wants to increase GOP turnout among Black and young voters amid a larger redistricting battle and a looming election.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, center, during a news conference on Aug. 14.

Politics & Government

Prosecutors expect to call over 150 witnesses in Georgia election interference case

7:48pm September 06, 2023

by Washington Desk

Prosecutors in Fulton County, Ga., say they expect that a trial in their election interference case would last four months, not including jury selection.

Republican presidential candidate former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Northside Conservatives Club Meeting, on August 30 in Iowa.

Mike Pence says Republicans "face a choice" in 2024: populism or conservatism

2:36pm September 06, 2023

by Sarah McCammon

The former vice president didn't pull any punches in a headlining event at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics where he argued that conservatism, not populism, is the future of the GOP.

Anderson Clayton, 25, chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party, is the youngest state party chair in the country. She wants to help Democrats reach rural and young voters.

Politics & Government

A 25-year-old from a small town leads North Carolina's Democratic Party toward 2024

5:10am September 06, 2023

Anderson Clayton is the youngest — and only Gen Z — state party chair in the country. She wants to help President Biden win over young and rural voters in her state next November.

Alabama Solicitor General Edmund LaCour (right) speaks alongside Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall after oral arguments in an Alabama congressional redistricting case outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2022.

Politics & Government

Alabama's congressional map is struck down again for diluting Black voters' power

6:16pm September 05, 2023

by Hansi Lo Wang

Alabama is once again appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court a lower court order that struck down the state's congressional map for likely violating the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voters' power.

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The challenges that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign has been facing

6:10pm September 05, 2023

by Ashley Lopez

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is widely seen as the most viable opponent to Donald Trump in the Republican presidential nomination race, but his campaign has been beset by challenges from the start.

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Judges strike down another Alabama congressional map over Voting Rights Act violation

5:21pm September 05, 2023

A panel of three federal judges struck down Alabama's latest congressional districting plan. Neither this map nor a prior version had more than one district with a majority Black population.

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Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis shakes hands with fairgoers at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 12 in Des Moines, Iowa.

Once the leading alternative to Trump, turnover in the DeSantis team spells trouble

3:55pm September 05, 2023

by Ashley Lopez

The governor of Florida, who consistently polls second in the race, has been named by many as the successor to Trump. But he has failed to gain in the polls and personnel issues roil his campaign.

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Democrats aim to make inroads in rural Montana

4:41pm September 04, 2023

by Shaylee Ragar

The Montana Democratic Party left dozens of legislative seats go uncontested last year, helping guarantee a Republican majority. Now, Democrats are organizing to make sure Republicans are challenged.