In New Hampshire and states with legalized sports gambling, wagering helps fund government services. But now competitors like ...

An election worker readied early ballots for tabulation in 2024. (File photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s Democratic attorney general and a voting rights ...

Lawmakers have introduced a flurry of measures to rein-in prediction markets in recent weeks, as the platforms have come ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina State Election Commission has selected its next executive director following a unanimous vote. The commission voted 4-0 during a special called meeting Wednesday to ...

Conway Belangia, a longtime Greenville election official, was chosen to lead the South Carolina Election Commission on March 25, 2026. Lucy Valeski [email protected] COLUMBIA, S.C. After months of ...

The chair of elections in Wisconsin had a helpful reminder for voters in the state Wednesday: Don’t place bets on a state election. It’s illegal. “I know it’s all the rage to bet on everything, but ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday wrestled with a major elections dispute involving whether federal law bars states from counting mail ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but received ...

Unionized caregivers and teachers at a pediatric hospital that the Healey administration attempted to shutter last year say they have “zero confidence” in the state’s public health chief. Staff at the ...

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican running for California governor, says his department will move forward with an investigation into alleged voter fraud tied to a 2025 statewide ...

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Sometimes politicians tell on themselves. And Republican legislators in Florida did so when they passed a voter-identification bill that allows voters to use virtually every kind of state-issued ID — ...

Michigan’s “spring-like” weather has made the job of predicting girls basketball state champions more challenging for the MLive high school sports reporters. But not impossible. March’s impression of ...