Noah Simmons remained on the air during a tornado warning in Fort Smith when a lamp in the studio caught fire. He kept his ...

Elections are the cornerstone of a functioning democracy, and the 2026 election cycle is already underway with several closely watched races across the country. In less than two weeks, voters in ...

Follow WTOP’s team coverage of the D.C. primary and Election 2026 online, on air at 103.5 FM or on the WTOP News app. D.C.’s June primary election may be the District’s most consequential in decades.

Election season is officially underway in the nation's capital, but local voters will notice a major shift in how they cast ...

Nine candidates for governor debate at an Augusta event hosted by the Maine Primary Care Association on March 18. Credit: Benjamin Kail / BDN Our political journalists are based in the Maine State ...

If you want more civility in the governor's race, there may be a solution. If you want to make sure the top two vote-getters are from different parties, there may be a solution. It's called the ...

Mainers decided to begin using ranked-choice voting in elections for the state Legislature, governor and federal offices all the way back in November of 2016 — the first state in the nation to do so.

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As Californians begin to head to the polls for early voting in the June 2 primary election, the state’s top-two system has raised questions. The so-called “jungle primary” system, in which candidates ...

Civic engagement leaders in Washington call on the state to adopt rank choice voting as a way to secure voting rights against changes to the federal Voting Rights Act. Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ...

Proponents of ranked-choice voting are recalibrating after Americans across the country broadly rejected measures intended to implement the system. It wasn’t all bad news for advocates of the voting ...

David Jones led reporters through a sample ballot at the State House Monday — the latest instance of a candidate in Maine's ...