![GOP tries to 'correct the narrative' on use of mailed ballots after years of conflicting messages](https://WFMJ.images.worldnow.com/images/25631435_G.jpeg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1702995514000)
GOP tries to 'correct the narrative' on use of mailed ballots after years of conflicting messages
At rallies and in social media posts, former President Donald Trump has been trying to assure Republican voters that casting ballots by mail and other forms of early voting are “all good options.”.
![Ohio launches effort to clean up voter rolls ahead of November's presidential election](https://WFMJ.images.worldnow.com/images/25631435_G.jpeg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1702995514000)
Ohio launches effort to clean up voter rolls ahead of November's presidential election
Ohio's Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose directed county election directors on Thursday to begin a “routine but enhanced” hunt through the voter rolls ahead of November’s election.
![Democrats advance election bill in Pennsylvania long sought by counties to process ballots faster](https://WFMJ.images.worldnow.com/images/19770392_G.jpg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1596125833000)
Democrats advance election bill in Pennsylvania long sought by counties to process ballots faster
Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives is advancing legislation long sought by counties seeking help to manage huge influxes of mail-in ballots during elections in the presidential battleground state.
![Pennsylvania redesigned its mail-in ballot envelopes amid litigation. Some voters still tripped up](https://WFMJ.images.worldnow.com/images/19931375_G.jpg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1601461810000)
Pennsylvania redesigned its mail-in ballot envelopes amid litigation. Some voters still tripped up
A form Pennsylvania voters must complete on the outside of the envelopes used to return mail-in ballots has been redesigned, but that didn't prevent some voters from failing to complete it accurately for this week’s primary.
![DECISION 2024: Mercer, Lawrence counties experience 'exceptionally' low turnout for primaries](https://WFMJ.images.worldnow.com/images/25631435_G.jpeg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1702995514000)
DECISION 2024: Mercer, Lawrence counties experience 'exceptionally' low turnout for primaries
Polls opened at 7:30 a.m. and are expected to be open until 8 p.m., so it won't be clear until later tonight what the exact turnout numbers will be, but it doesn't look like it will be high.
![Barack and Michelle Obama endorse Kamala Harris, giving her expected but crucial support](https://APPREMIUM.images.worldnow.com/images/26041893_G.jpg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1721979401000)
Barack and Michelle Obama endorse Kamala Harris, giving her expected but crucial support
Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris in her White House bid, giving the vice president the expected but still crucial backing of the nation’s two most popular Democrats.
![Harris will carry Biden's economic record into the election. She hopes to turn it into an asset](https://APPREMIUM.images.worldnow.com/images/26041633_G.jpg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1721963195000)
Harris will carry Biden's economic record into the election. She hopes to turn it into an asset
A key question is looming for Vice President Kamala Harris as she edges closer to gaining the Democratic presidential nomination: Can she turn the Biden-Harris economic record into a political advantage in a way that President Joe Biden failed to do.
![Trump turns his full focus on Harris at his first rally since Biden's exit from the 2024 race](https://APPREMIUM.images.worldnow.com/images/26039105_G.jpg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1721856356000)
Trump turns his full focus on Harris at his first rally since Biden's exit from the 2024 race
Donald Trump is holding his first public campaign rally since President Joe Biden dropped out of a 2024 matchup that both major parties had spent months preparing for, leaving the former president to direct his ire toward his likely new opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
![Biden delivers solemn call to defend democracy as he lays out his reasons for quitting race](https://APPREMIUM.images.worldnow.com/images/26039140_G.jpg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1721858154000)
Biden delivers solemn call to defend democracy as he lays out his reasons for quitting race
Insisting that “the defense of democracy is more important than any title,” President Joe Biden will explain in an Oval Office address his decision to drop his bid for reelection and to throw his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris.
![Harris tells roaring Wisconsin crowd November election is 'a choice between freedom and chaos'](https://APPREMIUM.images.worldnow.com/images/26037183_G.jpg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1721786718000)
Harris tells roaring Wisconsin crowd November election is 'a choice between freedom and chaos'
Vice President Kamala Harris is making her first visit to a battleground state after locking up enough support from Democratic delegates to win her party’s nomination to challenge former President Donald Trump, two days after President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid.
![Some GOP voters welcome Trump's somewhat softened tone at Republican National Convention](https://APPREMIUM.images.worldnow.com/images/26030141_G.jpg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1721350939000)
Some GOP voters welcome Trump's somewhat softened tone at Republican National Convention
For those conservative voters long turned off by former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric, his somewhat softened tone in accepting the Republican nomination is a welcome relief.
![The stepped-up security around Trump is apparent, with agents walling him off from RNC crowds](https://APPREMIUM.images.worldnow.com/images/26027560_G.jpg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1721239283000)
The stepped-up security around Trump is apparent, with agents walling him off from RNC crowds
Former President Donald Trump was separated from supporters by his Secret Service detail as he walked onto the floor of the Republican National Convention Tuesday night.
![Trump lawyers press judge to overturn hush money conviction after Supreme Court immunity ruling](https://APPREMIUM.images.worldnow.com/images/26017807_G.jpg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1720721276000)
Trump lawyers press judge to overturn hush money conviction after Supreme Court immunity ruling
Donald Trump’s lawyers are urging the judge in his New York hush money case to overturn his conviction and dismiss the case in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity.
![Biden looks to union leaders for support as he seeks to reassure worried Democrats](https://APPREMIUM.images.worldnow.com/images/26014911_G.jpg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1720614420000)
Biden looks to union leaders for support as he seeks to reassure worried Democrats
Facing pressure from within his own party to abandon his reelection campaign, President Joe Biden is relying on labor unions to help make the case that his record in office matters more than his age.
![The questions about Biden's age and fitness are reminiscent of another campaign: Reagan's in 1984](https://APPREMIUM.images.worldnow.com/images/26005122_G.jpg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1720083787000)
The questions about Biden's age and fitness are reminiscent of another campaign: Reagan's in 1984
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan answered the age question with a clever joke that reset his campaign from a stumbling debate performance to a 49-state landslide and a second term.
![Biden plans public events blitz as White House pushes back on pressure to leave the race](https://APPREMIUM.images.worldnow.com/images/26002620_G.jpg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1719960135000)
Biden plans public events blitz as White House pushes back on pressure to leave the race
The White House says President Joe Biden will meet with Democratic lawmakers and governors and sit for a network TV interview in the coming days as he pushes back against growing pressure to step aside in the 2024 race.
![US Supreme Court Latest: Court sends Trump’s immunity case back to lower court](https://APPREMIUM.images.worldnow.com/images/25998917_G.jpg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1719832884000)
US Supreme Court Latest: Court sends Trump’s immunity case back to lower court
The U.S. Supreme Court justices will soon take the bench to release their last few opinions of the term, including a closely watched case: Whether former President Donald Trump has immunity from criminal prosecution for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
![Pennsylvania's mail-in ballot dating rule is legal under civil rights law, appeals court says](https://WFMJ.images.worldnow.com/images/19770393_G.jpg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1596125867000)
Pennsylvania's mail-in ballot dating rule is legal under civil rights law, appeals court says
A federal appeals court says a requirement for Pennsylvania voters to put accurate handwritten dates on the outside envelopes of their mail-in ballots doesn't run afoul of a civil rights law.
![Court tosses Republican Pennsylvania lawmakers’ challenge of state, federal voter access actions](https://WFMJ.images.worldnow.com/images/18892484_G.jpg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1572279072000)
Court tosses Republican Pennsylvania lawmakers’ challenge of state, federal voter access actions
A federal court has dismissed an attempt by conservative Pennsylvania lawmakers to overturn automatic voter registration, along with lawmakers' other challenges to actions designed to boost voter access.
![Tuesday's primaries include a key Senate race in Ohio and clues for the Biden-Trump rematch](https://WFMJ.images.worldnow.com/images/19969348_G.jpeg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1602741621000)
Tuesday's primaries include a key Senate race in Ohio and clues for the Biden-Trump rematch
Five states will hold presidential primaries as President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump continue to lock up support around the country after becoming their parties’ presumptive nominees.
![Purple Ohio? Parties in the former bellwether state take lessons from 2023 abortion, marijuana votes](https://WFMJ.images.worldnow.com/images/24903035_G.jpeg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1691386824000)
Purple Ohio? Parties in the former bellwether state take lessons from 2023 abortion, marijuana votes
Ohio’s political pendulum swung left last year as voters in the one-time bellwether state overwhelmingly supported enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution and voted to legalize recreational marijuana.
![Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine bypasses Trump-backed Bernie Moreno for Matt Dolan with US Senate race nod](https://WFMJ.images.worldnow.com/images/23972468_G.jpeg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=180&lastEditedDate=1673876809000)
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine bypasses Trump-backed Bernie Moreno for Matt Dolan with US Senate race nod
Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has parted ways with Donald Trump to endorse state Sen. Matt Dolan over Trump-backed businessman Bernie Moreno in the three-way GOP primary for U.S. Senate.