Despite Pennsylvania’s status as a fiercely contested swing state, many local and state primary races in the 2026 primaries draw little competition at all.
- Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
Take a deep breath: Having to wait for election results means the system is working as it should, with safeguards and double-checks.
Scholars discuss aspects of protecting election integrity in the face of efforts to cast aspersions on voting results.
All 50 states have laws that ban potentially intimidating behavior at polling places. They will need enforcement during the 2022 midterm elections.
As vote counts tick upward, people may have questions about why one candidate does better with mail-in votes or in-person ballots. Here are the answers, and an explanation of how the counting happens.
Laws that have long kept campaigners away from voters at polling places may not work in a world where a T-shirt symbol can be interpreted as campaigning.
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