San Jose is taking another look at ranked choice voting after the City Council rejected a proposal to adopt the idea in city elections four years ago. Amid concerns over the spiraling costs from ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Currently the American people are threatened with disenfranchisement as both parties ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voting booths stand ready for use in a U.S. election. (Photo: MRolands/Getty Images) A state Senate bill filed this week would cut ...

Vice President JD Vance just came to Kansas City to tout a new map that would shut out Democrats. It doesn’t have to be this way. Getty Images The upshot of all this will not only be the ...

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A federal appeals court grilled Justice Department lawyers on Tuesday over Congress’s pandemic-era policy of proxy voting for legislation, after Texas filed a lawsuit arguing that a law passed by a ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists uncover hidden causes behind observable effects. By introducing ...

In a 6-3 decision Wednesday, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district, ruling it an unconstitutional gerrymander. The ruling has significant implications ...

The first time Alexa Rockwell went to vote for her favorite contestant on American Idol this season, she found the voting methods — especially the newly implemented process of casting votes via social ...

Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), in collaboration with international experts, have published a scientific study on how to ensure that the selection of committees and expert ...

A major U.S. Postal Service union is launching a national TV ad campaign promoting voting by mail, stepping into a politically charged debate as skepticism about mail-in ballots has been raised by ...