Heat and other climate impacts like floods and storms affect voters, candidates and poll workers in different ways at different times, and can even tip election results, researchers and officials report.

As she canvassed for Zohran Mamdani in New York City on Tuesday last week, Batul Hassan should have been elated. Her mayoral candidate—a 33-year-old state assemblymember—was surging in the polls and would within hours soundly defeat Andrew Cuomo on first preference votes in the Democratic primary election.

The Justice Department is looking into whether it can bring criminal charges against election officials the Trump administration believes aren’t doing enough to safeguard their computer systems, The New York Times reports.

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Builders, unions, realtors, police and many others spent more than $2 million on the race. They supported Paloma Aguirre and opposed her rival, Chula Vista Mayor John McCann. There was a lot at stake.

Green Jobs PAC, which helped defeat an initiative that would've repealed Washington's climate law, failed to disclose donors until after the November election.

ACT-Wazalendo Chairman and Zanzibar’s First Vice President, Mr Othman Masoud Othman, has sounded the alarm over growing political tension in the Isles ahead of the October 2025 General Election.

A political committee that helped defeat last year’s ballot measure to repeal a Washington climate law was fined $20,000 on Thursday for not disclosing how it spent $1 million until after the election.