Ballots

One of the men had a gun permit for Virginia, which is not valid in Pennsylvania. The other man had no permit at all, authorities said. NBC10’s Matt DeLucia reports.

A Clark County, Nev., elections official refuted claims from the Trump campaign that there were irregularities in the vote count. The Clark County official also said they expect to have most mail-in ballots counted by Saturday or Sunday.

There’s a fair chance Americans won’t know the winner of Tuesday’s presidential election while it’s still Tuesday — or maybe even Wednesday. The main reason? Many states have made it easier to request a mail ballot amid the coronavirus pandemic and concerns about crowded polling places. But mail ballots generally require more time to process than ballots that are...

United States Postal Service officials are looking into a video shared by the Florida House Democratic Leader showing what he says are piles of unsorted mail sitting in a Miami-Dade post office, sparking concerns that valid ballots won’t be counted.

More than 21 million voters across the U.S. have already cast ballots in person amid record-breaking early turnout

The Supreme Court will allow Pennsylvania to count ballots received up to three days after the election, rejecting a Republican plea.

Ballots cast by people who vote early but die before Election Day are sometimes cited as proof of voter fraud, but in many states they’re perfectly legal

“I was about to stick it in the envelope to send in and I looked, and I saw that my name wasn’t on the envelope.” New Haven voter Stephen Wizner was taking one last look over his ballot when he noticed “Envelope B” had someone else’s label with name and voter identification bar code. He and his wife also...

Ohio’s Republican secretary of state is assuring residents that the election will be secure and accurate after a county sent wrong ballots to 50,000 voters

The Supreme Court has reinstated a requirement that South Carolina residents voting by mail in November’s election get a witness to sign their ballots.

President Donald Trump declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power should Joe Biden win the upcoming election, saying, “We want to get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a very… there won’t be a transfer, frankly, there will be a continuation. The ballots are out of control.”

The Oregon Republican Party’s statement for the state voters’ pamphlet arrived 29 seconds too late and won’t appear in the guide mailed to voters for the November election, officials say

There’s a lot of talk right now about how we get our vote to the ballot box. Is in-person or mail-in voting safer? Are dead people voting? And why don’t we vote online? Here’s what you need to know about how we vote, explained with some of our favorite old-school video games.

The ballot has long been the essential instrument of democracy.