Election 2024

Election 2024

Everything you need to know about the local, state and federal elections in 2024.

What to know about Republican challenges to overseas and military voting
In three swing states, GOP groups are suing to challenge the ballots cast by U.S. citizens living abroad, including military members. Many voting experts say these cases are likely to go nowhere.
U.S. cybersecurity chief says election systems have 'never been more secure'
Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told NPR that election officials across the U.S. have made big improvements to bolster both physical and cyber security.
Harris and Trump hold competing rallies in Michigan
While the two candidates have been crisscrossing the swing states for weeks, this is the first time they are literally crossing paths, with each of them holding events in the suburbs north of Detroit.
Politics Friday: The 2024 election will determine who presides in Minnesota courtrooms, remember there are judges on your ballot
There are about 100 races on Minnesota’s election ballots that won’t get that much attention, and they’re all about judgeships. MPR News politics editor and his guests talk about judicial elections and why they’re different here than in other states. 
American democracy requires that we ’be architects, not arsonists’
Eboo Patel believes learning to value and tolerate diversity is the engine that drives just and equitable societies. Can America learn to do it before the social fabric is irrevocably torn? That’s the discussion on this week’s Big Books and Bold Ideas, part of our Americans and Democracy series.
How Republicans mainstreamed the baseless idea of noncitizen voting in 2024
Donald Trump and his allies have zeroed in on the baseless claim that Democrats are encouraging newly arrived migrants to vote for them in the 2024 election. There is no evidence of a plot like this.
As campaign nears finish, Walz adds dashes of digs to his portions of joy
The Democratic vice presidential candidate entered the race emphasizing positivity in politics. In the final stretch to Election Day, he’s trying to thread the needle between needling Donald Trump and JD Vance while still keeping an optimistic message.
At Wisconsin stops, Harris campaign features less talk of joy and more attacks on Trump
In La Crosse on Thursday, Harris told a rally crowd that Trump “will stop at nothing to claim unchecked power for himself.” It’s a shift from the “joy” that swirled around her elevation to the top of the Democratic ticket this summer.