Voters will choose this November between Republican Bobby Charles, Democrat Hannah Pingree and independent Rick Bennett to succeed Gov. Janet Mills.

Lisa Nandy, Secretary of State for Culture, cites need for sufficient plurality of views in news media ...

Election season is usually a time when voices subsumed by grand narratives finally find a register, as this writer discovered during a trip to Manjeshwar in Kerala to cover the recently concluded ...

Here is a solution to cure the way California elects its governor. We can keep the two-candidate final election. But for the primary we really need ranked-choice voting. It’s a system used in primary ...

Polly Toynbee says Angela Rayner, in her local government white paper, “boasted that it will mean ‘fewer [local] politicians’” (Opinion, 18 February), as if they are a bacillus to be wiped out. I am ...

Justin Lanna is a yard worker in the Kailua-Kona area. He grew up in Virginia and has been in Hawaiʻi since 2012. People frequently are forced to vote for someone other than their preference, keeping ...

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CARTERET COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - The phrase “every vote counts” definitely comes into play for Morehead City’s mayoral race, where the election came down to a single vote. Candidate Lee Stiles received ...

Cary voters will notice a schedule change to their local election this year. The town council decided to change voting dates and procedures to a method that matches most other cities and towns across ...