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The number of fines for breaking state campaign ethics laws has exploded in recent years as Ken Paxton’s office rarely pursues stricter enforcement.

The Central Bureau of Communication is meant to promote government plans. Its ads carried Modi’s party’s catchphrases.

Common Cause files petition in Supreme Court for Special Investigation Team to probe electoral bond corruption allegations.

Voting is habit-forming and high schools are critical for starting that pattern.

Republican officials want GOP voters to embrace the habit of early voting. But the Republican Party needs its voters to overcome a stigma created by Republicans.

Twenty-seven GOP members emphasized in a letter after the 7 November vote they would work to prevent its implementation

The challenge to the constitutionality of electoral bonds is now approaching denouement

Anderson Clayton is the youngest — and only Gen Z — state party chair in the country. She wants to help President Biden win over young and rural voters in her state next November.

Republicans failed to defend a fringe legal theory, but they are already pushing through new state election legislation

The state of the republic is precarious, but I am hopeful that democracy will prevail because it is resilient. We the people have faced serious threats in the past, including even a Civil War, and we have overcome them. We must continue to pass laws to strengthen our democracy in…

Ten years ago, a lawsuit led to the redrawing of Florida congressional maps that were criticized as blatantly gerrymandered.