SCOTUS allows states to keep accepting ballots that arrive after Election Day, even as conservatives on the court continue to ...

Mesa’s longtime partnership with ICE has emerged as a major fault line in the July elections, as organizers work to limit ...

After a busy stretch in May and June, the elections calendar is quieting down. Only one state is holding its regular primaries in July. It just so happens that this one state, Arizona, is hosting a ...

Solitary confinement is widely recognized as harmful to people with serious mental illness. In 2021, Colorado lawmakers passed a law intended to limit the practice in jails. Five years later, people ...

Colorado jails continue to put people with serious mental illness in solitary confinement, even after lawmakers passed reforms in 2021 that were aimed at limiting the practice, according to this new ...

Technology that tracks personal information, including one’s location, interests, and online behaviors, has become commonplace. It’s as ubiquitous as the GPS in a car or a home security camera. But ...

This story is a collaboration between Bolts and The Lens, a nonprofit newsroom in New Orleans dedicated to investigative and explanatory journalism. The last time Orolua Eluonyechie saw his son, the ...

Below are the candidates who filed to run for prosecutor by the state’s filing deadline. The information was obtained from state election officials. Candidates for prosecutor in Arkansas do not run ...

This story is part of “Denying Innocence,” a collaboration between Bolts and Injustice Watch, a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization examining issues of equity and justice in the court ...

This page compiles, state-by-state, the local offices that administer elections at the state, county, and municipal level. It lays out who oversees the preparation and conduct of the election, from ...

This story is produced as a collaboration between Bolts and NC Local. One Saturday in May, Shannon Long, a pastor running for sheriff in North Carolina, set up his campaign tent at a local hot-air ...