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Arizona’s top elections official says the No Labels party can’t block candidates from using its ballot line to run for office.

Oregon DOJ still mum on whether it will investigate possible Oregon law violations

Hanging over next year's election is the question of whether a handful of Senate Republicans who walked out of the legislative session for six weeks will be allowed to run again.

One proposed ballot measure would raise the hourly minimum wage — currently $10.85 — to $13 in 2025, $14 in 2026 and $15 in 2027.

NEW YORK (AP) — A former top executive at the failed FTX cryptocurrency exchange pleaded guilty Thursday to making tens of millions of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to U.S. politicians …

Mainland Republicans are trying to roll back the rights of citizens to pursue statewide ballot initiatives but island Democrats have never allowed it either.

The Oregon Government Ethics Commission should have an efficient and transparent way to inform reporters and Oregonians when it has voted to investigate public officials.

The largest political party in Arizona is no longer a party. The latest voter registration numbers from the Arizona Secretary of State’s office show that independent voters edged out Republicans in July to become the largest single group of voters in the state.

A political nonprofit long led by Oregon's powerful public employee unions wants to set campaign contribution limits in the state — and kill a competing 2024 ballot proposal by campaign finance reformers that would enact tighter limits and stricter ad disclosures.

PCUN joins a handful of other groups petitioning to clarify and limit campaign contributions.

Hoyle may have accepted and unlawfully retained cash contributions from La Mota founders, adding to her growing list of first-term scandals.

GOP senators and state attorneys disagree on what Measure 113 does, but they agree the matter needs to be answered soon.

The Oregon Government Ethics Commission voted unanimously Friday to investigate former Secretary of State Shemia Fagan’s travel.

The senators say Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade cannot bar them from seeking another term because of a constitutional loophole

Sam Bankman-Fried used money he stole from customers of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange to make more than $100 million in political campaign contributions before the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, federal prosecutors said on Monday.

Measure 113 is a bust. It didn’t stop legislative walkouts. It’s not as clear as its backers thought. It fostered division and recrimination in the Oregon Senate this year.

Gov. Tina Kotek has previously denied the claim that she fired former OLCC Director Steve Marks earlier this year at the behest of a controversial cannabis entrepreneur.

The state Public Disclosure Commission's recent ruling does not bode well for candidates wanting to skirt new campaign finance rules requiring donor information.

The decision by U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday to drop a campaign finance charge against Sam Bankman-Fried may keep his trial focused on what the government considers his main crime: stealing billions of dollars from cryptocurrency customers at his now-bankrupt FTX exchange.

Mr. Bankman-Fried’s legal team had argued that the United States mishandled the process of extraditing him from the Bahamas.

As a new Arizona survey shows, voters want to take the partisanship out of how top state and local election officials are chosen. The system we use now erodes public trust.

While proposals from two commissioners to alter the new form of government approved by voters last year were premature, Portlanders should recognize that building a better government may take adjustments and revisions to the original ballot measure, the editorial board writes.

Democracies fail when the institutions of government fail to address the major issues of the day or public confidence deteriorates to the point that governing becomes ...

A new Washington law attempts to tamp down the so-called gray money that funnels from one political action committee to the next on its way to election-year advertisements.

On the heels of massive spending in Seattle's council races, Lorena Gonzalez is continuing to fight for a bill to curb that spending in future elections.

Given that political-action committees have shelled out millions on the 14 candidates still in the running for Seattle City Council, it's no wonder some voters are experiencing advertising overload.

Councilmember M. Lorena González is proposing legislation to protect our democracy from the corruption of big money and foreign influence.