With less than a month before early voting begins for Rhode Island state and local primaries, candidates are pounding the pavement and packing in the public events in the hopes of gaining voters’ support — and potentially, donations.  Second-quarter campaign finance reports were due to the Rhode Island Board of Elections by 11:59 p.m. on […]

Candidates will have three weeks, starting Friday, July 31, to apply for Rhode Island's first-ever inspector general position.

The Rhode Island Board of Elections rejected an attempt by a Rhode Island independent gubernatorial candidate to oust one of his competitors from the November ballot. Yet the question of whether voters have to write their own names and addresses on candidate nomination papers remains unresolved. The elections panel denied Ken Block’s challenge to fellow […]

The same French multinational biometrics technology company behind the motor voter system in New Jersey where a software glitch mistakenly registered 6,600 noncitizens to vote — of whom a few hundred did so — also provides software and equipment for the state of Rhode Island. But Rhode Island Secretary of State Gregg Amore said Wednesday […]