GOP House candidate and South Carolina state Rep. Nancy Mace, the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, smiles after being recognized by Vice President Mike Pence during a speech at the The Citadel on Feb. 13, 2020. Meg Kinnard/AP hide caption
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People hand in their ID cards and receive voting papers at the Hoseyniyeh Ershad building in Tehran. Iran is holding important national elections Friday, choosing members of its parliament as well as its Assembly of Experts. Marjan Yazdi for NPR hide caption
Stacey Abrams at Fair Fight's headquarters outside Atlanta. She's waging a voting rights campaign aimed at helping Democrats win in 18 battleground states. Debbie Elliott/NPR hide caption
A portrait of 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass is unveiled at the Maryland governor's residence in Annapolis on Sept. 15, 2014. Brian Witte/AP hide caption
Police officers detain a man at protests in Moscow. Hundreds have been arrested during a demonstration demanding that opposition candidates be allowed to run for the Moscow city council. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP hide caption
An Indian Mishing tribal woman looks back to ensure her vote has been cast as she prepares to leave the voting compartment during the first phase of general elections in Majuli, Assam, India, Thursday. Anupam Nath/AP hide caption
Polls Open In The World's Largest Democracy: Fun Facts On India's Election
New Hampshire secretary of state Bill Gardner, left, shows former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, the historic ballot box before O'Malley filed papers to run in the 2016 presidential primary. Gardner is the nation's longest-serving secretary of state and has jealously guarded New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary. Jim Cole/AP hide caption
Turbulent Trump Era May Unseat The Guardian Of The New Hampshire Primary
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Crowds gathered outside of the Broward County Supervisor of Elections this week in Florida. Judges ruled Friday that election supervisors in Broward and Palm Beach counties had to release how many votes still had to be counted. Joe Skipper/AP hide caption
Supporters of Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill wait for her to arrive at a campaign stop in St. Louis on Monday. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
Georgia gubernatorial candidates Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp during a debate last month. John Bazemore/Getty Images hide caption
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, shown here last week, has lost a vote of confidence in parliament. Kerstin Joensson/AP hide caption
The two high-profile people close to President Trump, Michael Cohen (left) and Paul Manafort, were either found guilty or pleaded guilty to multiple federal crimes Tuesday. It was the closest Trump has been tied to potentially criminal acts as president. Don Emmert/AFP and Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
Maryland Senate President Mike Miller (left) and House Speaker Michael Busch discuss an FBI briefing they received about Russian links to a company that maintains part of the state's voter registration platform during a news conference in Annapolis, Md. Brian Witte/AP hide caption
People rally outside of the Supreme Court in opposition to Ohio's voter roll purges in January. The court upheld the controversial law Monday. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford campaigns in Northern Ontario last April. He has been elected premier of Ontario. Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images hide caption
Liuba Grechen Shirley currently uses campaign funds to pay a babysitter $22 an hour, for around 17 hours a week, to watch her two young children. NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images hide caption
A member of the West Virginia National Guard works in the basement of the state Capitol in Charleston, W.Va., on secondment to the Secretary of State's office to work on cybersecurity around state elections. Dave Mistich/West Virginia Public Broadcasting hide caption
States Turn To National Guard To Help Protect Future Elections From Hackers
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Facebook Inc said the company will start using postcards to verify potential ad buyers live in the U.S. before selling campaign ads. Jenny Kane/AP hide caption
Ranking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., arrives for a Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in December. Critics have raised questions about her age as she runs for re-election. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
Will Age Become An Issue In Dianne Feinstein's Re-Election Campaign?
Supporters of Honduran presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla clash with soldiers and riot police near the Electoral Supreme Court (TSE) on Thursday. Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
From left, Bill Wanlund of the Falls Church electoral board, Jessica Wilson of voting machine company Hart InterCivic and David Bjerke, the Falls Church director of elections test the city's new voting machines ahead of this November's election. Pam Fessler/NPR hide caption
Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff speaks with the media in Atlanta on Apr. 18 as he runs against Republican Karen Handel to replace Tom Price, who is now the secretary of Health and Human Services. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
Ad War Means Local TV Stations Win Big In Georgia's Special Election
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh sits during his final pre-election rally in November in Banjul, Gambia. He lost that vote to rival Adama Barrow but has refused to step down. Jerome Delay/AP hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual televised New Year's message in the Kremlin in Moscow. Mikhail Klimentyev/AP hide caption