Suspicious packages were sent this week to election offices in more than 20 states, leading to an FBI investigation, triggering evacuations and rattling staff, according to a CNN survey of state offices and Associated Press reporting.

Among the new rules, election workers will hand count ballots on Election Night, potentially delaying the swing state's results.

Virginia is the first state to allow early in-person voting, a milestone moment six weeks before election day.

Some state averages started later in 2024 because of a lack of sufficient early polling. Source: Averages by The New York Times; polls collected by FiveThirtyEight and The Times. Nate CohnChief political analyst Despite a strong debate performance,

According to a Pew Research poll released on September 9, 65 percent of Jewish voters said they back Harris this election, while 34 percent support Trump. In 2020, a report from Pew found that 70 percent of Jewish Americans voted for President Joe Biden, while 27 percent voted for Trump.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In-person voting for this year’s presidential election began Friday, a milestone that kicked off a six-week sprint to Election Day after a summer of political turmoil.

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's State Election Board on Friday voted to approve a new rule that requires poll workers to count the number of paper ballots by hand.

PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - At a meeting of United Steelworkers union officials this week, presidential politics was off the agenda, a departure from past election-year gatherings and a sign of the division between USW members and union bosses over the candidates.

The Georgia State Election Board voted 3-2 on Friday to require counties to hand-count all ballots, in addition to machine tallies, in the 2024 election. The decision, driven by the board’s Republican majority,