The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has just made public a patent application from the U.S. Postal Service that describes a “Secure Voting System” based on blockchain technology. The USPS filed the ...

Election officials expect a week to count votes with the new system. Even before a victor is declared for this year's elections, Maine will be making history. The state will be the first in the union ...

Nov 6 (Reuters) - Donald Trump’s stolen-election falsehoods have thrust America’s voting machine suppliers into a national struggle to protect their businesses. Industry leaders Dominion Voting ...

It was not the first time Dana DeBeauvoir had moved a room full of men. At 9 o'clock in the morning on August 8, 2011, she adjusted a pair of half-frame reading glasses on the end of her nose, got up ...

Overnight, the number of Americans using ranked-choice voting to elect officials roughly doubled. That’s because voters in New York City (population 8.6 million) overwhelmingly approved a ballot ...

Four years after about 51% of Alaskans voted to adopt a new election system and two years after the new system debuted, some people in the state want to hit the undo button. A measure that aims to ...

Overall public confidence in the election system has changed little since 2016, but there have been significant shifts in the views of Democrats and Republicans. About 8 in 10 Americans are concerned ...

Update, November 9: Lost in the fallout of Donald Trump's victory last night was the fact that Maine narrowly approved the use of ranked choice voting—a way of counting the votes that, Slate argues, ...