A Republican who left the Department of Government Efficiency initiative on President Donald Trump’s first day is expected to launch his bid for Ohio governor.

Fresh off of his unexpected departure from President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, Vivek Ramaswamy has set his sights on becoming governor of Ohio, his home state.

Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted is Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s pick to succeed Vice President-elect JD Vance in the U.S. Senate.

Vice President-elect JD Vance has resigned his seat in the U.S. Senate effective Friday.

JD Vance’s election as vice president has opened up one of Ohio’s U.S. Senate seats for the third time in as many years.

Two voter advocacy organizations have put Ohio’s Republican elections chief on notice that voters are being removed from the rolls, allegedly in violation of federal law.

The League of Women Voters of Ohio brought its statewide roadshow to Ohio State University Thursday in an effort to register and excite student voters.

Backers of Ohio's fall redistricting amendment are asking the Ohio Supreme Court to order a rewrite of what they contend “may be the most biased, inaccurate, deceptive, and unconstitutional ballot language” the state has ever seen.

Backers of a fall redistricting amendment in Ohio vowed swift legal action Friday, after the state ballot board approved ballot language that they decried as inaccurate, devious and manipulative.

A proposal to change Ohio’s troubled political mapmaking system has qualified for the November ballot.

Lawmakers in Ohio have failed to come to an agreement on adjusting a state election deadline that stands to prevent President Joe Biden from appearing on the 2024 ballot.

Former President Donald Trump is heading to Ohio to rally support for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno ahead of the March 19 primary.

A judge has upheld as constitutional provisions of Ohio's sweeping new election law.

The most prominent Republican in the race to unseat Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown next year has fired a top aide after social media posts surfaced in which the staffer criticized Donald Trump.

The battle over abortion rights looms over an Ohio ballot measure being voted on statewide Tuesday.

Ohio voters will decide this fall whether the right to an abortion should be added to the state constitution.

Groups hoping to enshrine abortion rights in Ohio’s constitution have delivered nearly double the number of signatures needed to place an amendment on the fall statewide ballot.

A ballot question aimed at making it harder to amend Ohio's constitution has been cleared for an August vote.

An increasingly unpopular effort by a group of Ohio Republicans to make it harder to change the state constitution by direct voting faces a critical juncture this week.

The Republican secretaries of state in Ohio, West Virginia and Missouri all have promoted their states’ elections as fair and secure.

The election contests of 2022 may have been held and decided, but Ohio’s political maps remain far from settled.

Lengthy vote counts in states such as Arizona or California can frustrate candidates and their supporters, but they don't indicate anything is wrong with the voting or the tallying of ballots.

Republicans in Ohio are promoting a ballot measure that would prohibit noncitizens from voting in local elections, fighting what they see as a push for such access in liberal enclaves such as San Francisco and New York City.

Ohio's elections chief is cautioning that state law does not permit voters to return absentee ballots at their precincts on Election Day.

In a story published October 5, 2022, The Associated Press reported that the Ohio Secretary of State's office earlier this year identified just a single case of illegal voting, according to a Democratic Party official.

Accusations have flown for months over who's to blame for Ohio’s redistricting protracted redistricting predicament.

The midterm election season began in earnest Tuesday with primaries in Indiana and Ohio.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has won the Republican nomination for his second term in office, defeating conservative challenger John Adams, who questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election.

Republican state election officials in several states are having to defend their records as they face challengers from within their own party who either outright deny that Democrat Joe Biden won the presidency or raise unsubstantiated claims that elections are not secure.

A federal court panel has decided not to delay Ohio's May 3 primary, for now.

In Ohio, completed ballots can be turned in by mail, in person or at a drop box. Q: HOW WAS ONE DROP BOX SETTLED ON? He used the exact language from the March legislation that specified a single drop box, but further prohibited having more than one. LaRose repeatedly said he would support additional drop boxes if it was made clear he had the legal authority. He interpreted “outside” a board of elections as broadly permitting drop boxes at multiple locations throughout each of Ohio's 88 counties, partly because LaRose had already permitted a drop box off a board's property.

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2018 file photo, Ohio Secretary of State Frank Larose speaks at the Ohio Republican Party event, in Columbus, Ohio. The lawsuit's end was also a win for Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose, who issued the directive limiting drop box locations. Six major Ohio cities fought alongside the voting rights groups to expand access to off-site ballot drop-off locations: Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Akron, Dayton and Toledo. LaRose did issue a “clarification” to his initial one-box-per-county order, allowing counties to set up drop boxes “outside” their offices but, he said, still on site. The court had requested the state's brief on Nov. 24 and the voting rights coalition's reply on Dec. 24, after reiterating its concern about changing election rules after voting had already begun.

(AP Photo/Aaron Doster, File)COLUMBUS, Ohio – How many drop boxes can each Ohio county set up for collecting absentee ballots cast in the November presidential election, and where can they be located? In Ohio, completed ballots can be turned in by mail, in person or at a drop box. Ohio state lawmakers had passed an emergency coronavirus bill in March that required every county to set up a single secure drop box as a convenience during the April 7 primary. Q: HOW WAS ONE DROP BOX SETTLED ON? He used the exact language from the March legislation that specified a single drop box, but further prohibited having more than one.

Ohio and Republican groups including the Trump campaign are defending a GOP election chief's directive limiting ballot drop boxes in the critical presidential battleground to one per county. (AP Photo/Aaron Doster, File)COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio and Republican groups including the Trump campaign are fighting to uphold a GOP election chief's directive limiting ballot drop boxes in the presidential battleground to one per county. LaRose argued that the number of drop boxes per county must be uniform to be fair, and that lawmakers had made clear in a law passed this spring that ballots had to be mailed or personally delivered to county board directors. Interest in access to ballot drop boxes has increased nationally since spring primary voting was hampered by virus concerns, the U.S. It is often the more urban, Democrat-heavy counties that lean toward drop boxes.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio judge has temporarily blocked the Republican secretary of state’s order limiting counties in the critical presidential battleground to one ballot drop box, and the state and Republicans have appealed. The state immediately appealed, and the Ohio Republican Party followed suit late Thursday, placing the fate of the order on hold. The faceoff makes unclear how many drop boxes will be available to Ohio voters just 2 1/2 weeks before voting begins Oct. 6. Access to ballot drop boxes has become an urgent matter nationally amid the coronavirus pandemic, questions about mail-in voting security and cutbacks at the post office. The Ohio Republican Party lashed out at Frye as a “partisan judge" and accused him of colluding with fellow Democrats before issuing his decision.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A directive that restricted Ohio counties to one ballot drop box in November was arbitrary and unreasonable, a county judge ruled Tuesday, delivering the Republican secretary of state in the presidential battleground another in a series of blows to his policies. The office of Secretary of State Frank LaRose said he would soon appeal the decision by Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Richard Frye, assuming the judge follows through and invalidates the secretary's drop-box order. It is often the largely Democratic urban counties — such as Cuyahoga, home to Cleveland — that look to expand the number of drop boxes. The Ohio Democratic Party and a coalition of voting rights group sued LaRose last month over the directive, calling it unconstitutional. LaRose cited a state election law that says absentee ballots must be “delivered by mail or personally” to a voter’s county election director.

It is appalling that Congress has not provided the needed resources for state and local elections officials during the COVID-19 pandemic, said Padilla. The coronavirus outbreak has triggered unprecedented disruptions for election officials across the U.S. This wasnt in anyones budget," said Ben Hovland, chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, which provides support for state and local election officials. If more federal money is made available, it could allow local election offices to hire more temporary workers to help process ballot requests and count ballots on Election Day. In New Mexico, state election regulators are anticipating a $6 million shortfall without additional funding for the November general election.