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That chilling finding comes from a national exit poll conducted by Edison Research for several major news organizations.

With control of Congress and statehouses at stake, voters across the nation headed to the polls on Election Day 2022. That was after more than 42 million people had already voted early or by mail. The Conversation asked four scholars to give us their initial observations on the voting, in…

With election deniers up and down the ballot, key voters don’t rank democracy as a big concern

Millions have already voted and results are coming in. Listen to NPR election night analysis beginning at 8 p.m. ET.

WASHINGTON — Republicans are favored to take at least one chamber of Congress, shifting the balance of power in Washington, as voters head to the polls in the first major test of the country’s democracy since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

The AP VoteCast survey shows that voters have become deeply discouraged about the state of America and its future

Phoenix (AFP) - Unsubstantiated allegations of fraud, prompted by isolated voting issues and amplified by Donald Trump, left US election officials vying to defend the integrity of Tuesday's midterm poll.

After six years of reassuring America that somehow everything will be OK, it's time for the media to get real

European Commission wears ‘velvet gloves’ when dealing with spyware used on citizens, says chief of inquiry on hacking software such as Pegasus

Is democracy really on the ballot, as Joe Biden claims? The whole world is watching the US midterm elections: the first since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine fuelled soaring inflation and the first federal elections since Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. We ask about the issues that have pollsters predicting a…

Editorial: The treatment of the British-Egyptian democracy activist is a travesty, and emblematic of the regime’s brutality