Latest Voting News

Voters with disabilities often overlooked in voting battles

Apr. 02, 2023 08:25 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Patti Chang walked into her polling place in Chicago earlier this year, anxious about how poll workers would treat her, especially as a voter who is blind. Even though she was accompanied by her husband, she said she was ignored until a poll worker grabbed her cane and pulled...

Montenegrins choose new president amid political turmoil

Apr. 02, 2023 05:09 AM EDT

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Voters in Montenegro cast ballots Sunday in a runoff presidential election that is a contest between a long-serving pro-Western incumbent and a newcomer promising changes in the small NATO member nation located on Europe’s Balkan peninsula. Observers...

Mississippi session: Yes to moms' Medicaid, no to tax cuts

Apr. 01, 2023 16:18 PM EDT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — During the three-month session that ended early Saturday, Mississippi lawmakers guaranteed a year of Medicaid coverage for women after birth but ignored broader Medicaid expansion for working people whose jobs don't provide health insurance. The majority-white...

Wisconsin Supreme Court control, abortion access at stake

Apr. 01, 2023 10:04 AM EDT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and likely the future of abortion access, Republican-drawn legislative maps and years of GOP policies in the key swing state rests with the outcome an election Tuesday that has seen record campaign spending. The winner of...

'Window into history': Tapes detail LBJ's stolen election

Mar. 31, 2023 22:36 PM EDT

DALLAS (AP) — The story was a blockbuster: A former Texas voting official was on the record detailing how nearly three decades earlier, votes were falsified to give then-congressman Lyndon B. Johnson a win that propelled the future president into the U.S. Senate. The audio...

AP WAS THERE: Uncovering Lyndon B Johnson's stolen election

Mar. 31, 2023 15:56 PM EDT

ALICE, Texas (AP) — In 1977, Associated Press reporter James W. Mangan's exclusive interview with a South Texas election judge who detailed certifying false votes for Lyndon B. Johnson nearly three decades earlier made headlines across the country. With the win by an 87-vote margin...

Montenegro vote pits incumbent president against new blood

Mar. 31, 2023 02:39 AM EDT

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Voters in small Montenegro go to the polls this weekend to choose their next president in a runoff between pro-Western incumbent Milo Djukanovic and Jakov Milatovic, a newcomer supported by the shaky governing coalition with links to neighboring Serbia. ...

Indictment: Political campaign worker offered voters bribes

Mar. 30, 2023 17:47 PM EDT

PERTH AMBOY, N.J. (AP) — Three political campaign workers have been indicted on charges stemming from a scheme where authorities say one offered $20 supermarket gift cards to voters in return for letting her complete their mail-in ballots. The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office...

New Mexico governor signs bill expanding voter access

Mar. 30, 2023 14:51 PM EDT

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s governor Thursday signed a Democratic-sponsored voting rights bill aimed at expanding access to the ballot and two other related measures. New Mexico was one of several Democratic-controlled states where lawmakers advocated for sweeping voter...

Maryland voters to decide abortion constitutional amendment

Mar. 30, 2023 13:53 PM EDT

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland voters will decide next year whether to enshrine the right to abortion in the Maryland Constitution, after the House of Delegates voted Thursday to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot. The House voted 98-38 for a bill that already has cleared...