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Voters in Orange County will soon be getting their ballots in their mailboxes as the November election nears.

Starting next Monday voters in Orange County can start looking for ballots in their mailboxes as the first wave of 1.8 million ballots are mailed out by the OC Registrar. Vikki Vargas reports for the NBC4 News on Oct. 4, 2022.

Here’s how to double check your registration status before you head to the polls.

President Joe Biden is picking up the pace of his high-dollar fundraisers for Democratic candidates and party committees in the closing weeks before Election Day in November.

There is a ballot measure brawl that has been waged on California’s airwaves for weeks. Several ads have been sent out on behalf of supporters for Prop 26 and 27 trying to get voters support before the November ballot. Conan Nolan reports for the NBC4 News on Sept. 27, 2022.

Italian voters have shifted sharply, rewarding a party with neo-fascist roots and bolstering prospects the country could have its first far-right-led government since World War II.

New Hampshire hosts the last primary of the midterms, but appears so committed to hosting its 2024 presidential primary before anyone else…it may even move it all the way back to 2023. New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan tells LX News Political Editor Noah Pransky why we all have a stake in the Granite State’s primary.

NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with Chuck Todd on Meet the Press about the new LA Times and UC Berkeley Poll that says most Californians who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 don’t want him to seek a second term. Plus, did the FBI raid give “the Donald” a big boost in his efforts to possibly run for president once...

The nation’s leading abortion rights advocacy organization, Planned Parenthood, plans to spend a record $50 million ahead of November’s midterm elections.

In one of the biggest days of this year’s primary campaign season, red-state Kansas rejected a measure that would have made it easier to restrict abortion, and voters in Missouri repudiated a scandal-tarred former governor seeking a Senate seat.

With headlines about abortion, mass shootings, the climate crisis, and economic woes virtually inescapable, Gen Z and young Millennials are more engaged with politics than their parents’ or grandparents’ generations ever were at their age. But a number of new indicators, related to political frustrations and disengagement from the system suggest many of those young, politically-engaged Americans still may not…

Former spokesman for the Oath Keepers extremist group Jason Van Tatenhove testified Tuesday before the Jan. 6 committee that he believes that without intervention, domestic extremism groups could incite violence in future elections. “We’ve gotten exceedingly lucky that more bloodshed did not happen.”

A group seeking to recall Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón dropped off signatures this week required to advance a recall effort against the man voters elected to office over two-term incumbent Jackie Lacey in 2020.

The efforts to recall DA George Gascón will submit signatures to the registrar’s office. Annette Arreola reports for Today in LA on Wednesday July 6, 2022.

A rare Republican who supports abortion rights found success in Colorado in the first primary elections held since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Two of Congress’ staunchest conservatives repelled more centrist challengers to lock up Republican nominations on Tuesday.

Colorado Republicans have rejected two prominent election deniers in primaries Tuesday night. It’s a setback for the movement to install backers of former President Donald Trump’s election lies in positions with power over voting. Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters lost the Republican primary for secretary of state to Pam Anderson, a former clerk in suburban Denver. Peters was indicted for...

This week’s gripping testimony to Congress about threats to local election officials following the 2020 presidential election had a rapt audience outside Washington — secretaries of state and election clerks across the U.S who said the stories could easily have been their own.

The Supreme Court seems poised to take on a new elections case being pressed by Republicans. It could increase the power of state lawmakers over races for Congress and the presidency, as well as redistricting. It also could cut state courts out of the equation.

Los Angeles County’s first post-election results update will be released today with at least 400,000 vote by mail ballots still to be processed, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean C. Logan said.