Voting in some races, but not all, is called "undervoting." But in every single state, the ballot counts regardless. In other ...

Despite what pundits say, the 2024 U.S. election is not unique. It’s all part of a bigger pattern. So instead of taking the ...

If you know the winner(s) in Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and perhaps Arizona, you’ll know ...

It is the concept of random selection that allows a relatively small group of survey participants to represent the country as ...

If you look at Katrina, Hurricane Michael, it appears that this mattered. In other words, voting was down after those ...

giving lawmakers the ability to allow for so-called “no-excuse” absentee voting. In other words, if you preferred to vote by absentee ballot you could do so, without having to provide a ...

In other words, this should be the easiest of these seven states for Harris to win. But the polling doesn’t show a comfortable advantage for the vice president, who may be suffering the political ...

In other words, it is totally possible that the election isn’t going to be close at all, despite what the pollsters are saying. Another British polling firm, YouGov, made the running with the ...

Here at 538, we think a big part of our jobs during election season is to explore and explain how much trust you should put ...

It’s a particularly bad time for Berlin to be experiencing political paralysis pending the formation of a new government.