The Washington County Election Commission met to officially welcome its newest member and prepare for the next big election. While 2025 isn’t a major election year, officials said it’s still a crucial time to focus on planning, training and maintaining voter trust. New commissioner Alexis Ward said she’s ready to hit the ground running.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, N.C., will not run for re-election when his term is up, he announced Sunday, hours after he voted against advancing President Donald Trump's tax bill and drew the president's ire.

Special elections have had significant shifts towards the Democrats since Trump returned to office, an indicator of potential success in the 2026 Midterms.

during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. J. Scott Applewhite/AP The nearly 800-page package also includes provisions to bolster election security at the state and federal levels, require social media platforms to ...

Green Jobs PAC, which helped defeat an initiative that would've repealed Washington's climate law, failed to disclose donors until after the November election.

In a statement released Sunday, Tillis said he’s frustrated with partisan gridlock, and that he will not be seeking re-election.

A political committee that helped defeat last year’s ballot measure to repeal a Washington climate law was fined $20,000 on Thursday for not disclosing how it spent $1 million until after the election.