Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Candidates for public office can sue in advance over vote counting practices they contend are illegal, the Supreme Court ruled ...

Machines that tabulate votes are faster and more accurate ballot-counters than humans, according to studies and past election experience. Eliminating vote-counting machines and relying solely on ...

Allowing for “consensus choice” would improve ranked-choice voting in the commonwealth, Better Choices for Democracy’s Carah Ong Whaley writes.