This should be a crisis. Low voter turnout threatens our democracy by calling into question the legitimacy of our elections. But it is not. The only time voter apathy becomes a concern is during ...
Ms. Smith, a Democrat from Minnesota, will leave open another seat for her party to defend next year as it confronts an uphill battle to retake the Senate.
Lawmakers face a choice of whether to remove QR codes from Georgia ballots at a cost of up to $66 million, or to reverse course on the update to the Dominion voting system.
Smith is the second Democratic senator to announce their retirement ahead of the 2026 midterms, when the party wants to contend for the majority but faces obstacles.