Early Voting

Australians started early voting ahead of a national election on May 3, with polls showing the center-left Labor government holding a narrow lead over the opposition with two weeks to go until the campaign ends. Almost 50% of Australians cast their ballots early in the last election in 2022, either by post or in person, and a large number of voters are expected to turn out from Tuesday at polling stations across the country. A record number of people have registered to vote in the 2025 poll, according to the...

As seven people cast ballots in the first three hours of early voting in the Waukegan and North Chicago primary for municipal offices, candidates are aware they must utilize their campaign resources to push turnout above the 9% of registered voters who cast their ballots in the 2021 general election. Though she declined to say who got her support in the 2025 Waukegan Democratic mayoral primary, Judith Marquez said it was important to cast her vote early. She said she would not miss an opportunity to have her say. “It’s...

Early voting began Thursday for the primary election on Feb. 25, Aurora area officials said. In Kane County, there are primary races for mayor in Aurora, which is a non-partisan election, and for three Aurora Township races featuring Democrats, which are partisan contests. Early in-person voting is now available at the Kane County Clerk’s Office locations in Aurora, at 5 E. Downer Place, Suite F, and Geneva, at 719 S. Batavia Ave., Building B.

Early voting starts Thursday in a snap special primary election to fill a vacant Senate seat in Northeast Minneapolis. State of play: Eight Democrats are battling to succeed former Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic, who died in December following close to two years of treatment for ovarian cancer. • While two Republicans are also competing to be the party's nominee on the Jan. 28 ballot, the winner of the DFL primary is almost certain to win the seat given the political lean of the district. The big picture: The Senate will...

Unofficial early voting results in the Princeton mayoral runoff show a narrow lead for the challenger, Eugene Escobar Jr. over incumbent Mayor Brianna Chacón. Saturday was Election Day for the mayoral runoff between Chacón and Escobar. The lead Escobar had over Chacón during early voting was by just 39 votes, according to unofficial results. Escobar got 257 or about 54% of the votes and Chacón got 218, or about 46% of the votes, unofficial results showed. According to the Collin County elections website, 437 people voted early in the Princeton...

RICHMOND — Early voting got underway Wednesday in two special elections with long-shot potential to upend Democrats’ narrow control of the state House and Senate — and boost Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s prospects for legislative wins in his final year in office. Voters in Loudoun County are choosing two new members of the General Assembly in the Jan. 7 election They are filling a pair of seats that opened up when state Sen. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Loudoun) won election to Congress on Nov. 5 and a sitting delegate resigned to run...

FORT SMITH --Voters in Fort Smith and Lavaca will have a chance to cast early ballots in the two runoff elections this week. Early voting for two runoff races in Sebastian County will open Tuesday with four days of voting to take place before Election Day next week on Dec. 3. Lavaca voters will cast ballots for the Alderman Ward 2 Position 2 seat while Fort Smith voters will decide the Director Position 3, Ward 3 seat. The Sebastian County website shows early voting will be located at the Ben...

There is no evidence that a video of a polling station in Florida's Hillsborough County shows a designated Election Day voting site that was nonoperational. The county's elections supervisor has said that the location was only open for early voting that ended on Nov. 3. The video shows a Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Office sign that reads: "This location is not an Election Day voting site." The video's caption says, "American gets to election polling site and there is a sign out front that the polling station is closed...

Democrats and Republicans in Georgia and across the country have fought for four years in the courts and in Washington, D.C. over changes to election rules enacted by the state’s GOP Legislature following the election of Joe Biden in 2020. A controversial rule adopted in 2021 establishing a 25-foot zone prohibiting the distribution of bottled water and snacks to voters in line turned Georgia into a laughing stock on late night television. A federal judge struck down the 25-foot ban last year, but upheld the federal 150-foot restriction against giving...