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Fontes blocked from using new rule to certify election results when counties refuse to
PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes has been blocked from using a new provision of the election procedures manual that would have let him certify election results in the state if a county refuses to sign off on its own results. In a decision Friday,...
Eastern German legislature elects mainstream conservative speaker after far-right election win
BERLIN (AP) — Lawmakers elected a mainstream conservative as speaker of the state parliament in eastern Germany's Thuringia region on Saturday, putting aside a convention that the strongest party gets the job after the far-right Alternative for Germany won a regional election for the first time....
Sharpton and Central Park Five members get out the vote in battleground Pennsylvania
NEW YORK (AP) — A few dozen New Yorkers boarded a bus in Harlem on Friday with civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton and members of the group formerly known as the Central Park Five, bound for Philadelphia, where they toured the city hoping to energize the youth vote ahead of the 2024...
Democrats challenge Ohio order preventing drop-box use for those helping voters with disabilities
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Democratic Party and two affected voters sued the state's Republican elections chief on Friday over his recent directive preventing the use of drop boxes by people helping voters with disabilities. The lawsuit, filed at the Ohio Supreme Court, says...
Wisconsin Supreme Court says Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s name will remain on swing state's ballot
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s name will remain on the state's presidential ballot, upholding a lower court's ruling that candidates can only be removed from the ballot if they die. The unanimous decision from the...
Wisconsin city's mailing of duplicate absentee ballots raises confusion, questions over elections
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — When the elections clerk in Wisconsin's heavily Democratic capital city of Madison announced on Monday that duplicate absentee ballots had mistakenly been sent to around 2,000 voters, it ignited concerns about election integrity from a Republican congressman and others on the...
Supreme Court refuses to order New York to include RFK Jr. on the presidential ballot
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday refused an emergency appeal from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign seeking to have his name added to New York's ballot. Kennedy has been trying to get his name off ballots in key battleground states since he suspended his...
Tunisia passes law to strip courts of power over election authority appointed by president
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s parliament amended a law on Friday, stripping power from courts over decisions made by an embattled election authority whose members are appointed by President Kais Saied. Nine days before the presidential election, a majority of members of...
Czechs vote in the runoff election for a third of the seats in Parliament's upper house
PRAGUE (AP) — Czechs cast ballots on Friday in the second round of voting for a third of the seats in Parliament’s upper house, the Senate. The current ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Petr Fiala has a clear majority in the Senate though the main opposition group, led by...
Voting technology firm, conservative outlet reach settlement in 2020 election defamation case
DOVER, Del. (AP) — A settlement was reached Thursday in a defamation lawsuit brought by electronic voting machine manufacturer Smartmatic against conservative news outlet Newsmax for airing accusations about vote manipulation in the 2020 election made by allies of former President Donald Trump. ...
