Ohio, it's time to cast your vote. And what an important vote it is in your 'swing state.' Here's what you need to know about polls in Ohio on Elec...

WASHINGTON -- A number of Ohio voters who asked for absentee ballots may have had their requests incorrectly rejected because of a glitch in Ohio's vo...

SABINA, Ohio -- Paul Ryan might as well be an Ohioan. The farm fields smell familiar. They small town streets look just like his. The chill in the ai...

WASHINGTON -- Voter fraud has been an ongoing debate in this election season, as states purge voter rolls and citizen vigilante poll-watchers aim to e...

Statistics dreamboat and 100-percent boyfriend material Nate Silver has awarded the state of Ohio the "Florida-in-2000 Prize for Undue Anxiety and Overdetermined Prognosticating." Mazel tov, Buckeye State, and better luck next year, Pennsylvania.

DAYTON, Ohio -- An Ohio county's director of elections has resigned because he says work on the coming presidential election was too stressful. The...

WASHINGTON -- The AFL-CIO says it has registered more than 450,000 new voters from union households over the past 18 months, part of an ambitious push...

CANTON, Ohio -- In this crucial battleground in campaign 2012, William Healy and Joe Halter stand on opposing sides of the great divide: How to jump-s...

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, who has been fighting a lawsuit from the Obama campaign trying to restore early voting, said voter identification ...

By Justin Elliott, ProPublica In May, a previously unknown group started pouring money into Ohio's U.S. Senate race, considered one of the most imp...

Obama For America filed a motion Wednesday asking a federal court to enforce three days of early voting in Ohio before the 2012 election. The motio...

A federal judge sided with the Obama campaign and ruled Friday to order Ohio to restore three days of early voting before Election Day, a decision tha...

Since these new laws and hours worked in 2008, why chance the system for 2012? The question remains, are Ohio's voting hours being influenced by partisan attempts to disenfranchise certain groups of Americans?

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nowhere is as much money being spent on a Senate race this year as in Ohio, where liberal Democrat Sherrod Brown is seeking a s...

Doug Priesse, an Ohio GOP election official, expressed regret Monday for a controversial remark about black voters that fanned the flames in the conte...

President Barack Obama and presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney are virtually tied in the key swing state of Ohio, according to a poll rel...

CLEVELAND — An Election Day poll worker tried to bite off a voter's nose during an argument Tuesday over a campaign sign, police and election of...

ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The questions on the ballot range from undocumented immigration and union rights ...

Republicans in states like Florida are making it more challenging to vote or to register others. Democrats say it's an effort to disenfranchise studen...

By ANN SANNER, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) COLUMBUS, Ohio — After years of expanding when and how people can vote, state legislatures now under new Rep...

WASHINGTON -- Ted Strickland may have lost his campaign for reelection as Ohio governor, but he's not planning on disappearing from public life anytim...

WASHINGTON -- There may be something rotten at McDonald's -- and it's not a year-old Happy Meal. The owner of a franchise in Canton, Ohio enclosed a...

The injection of huge sums of cash into partisan election operations has re-defined the process of American democracy in this and several previous election cycles. We're not testing the legalities of these coordinated efforts.