Deliberately misleading election polls deserve penalties under election-interference law

American campaigns and voting, from primaries and general elections to the candidates, money and rules that decide them. Covers federal, state and local contests, the machinery of casting and counting ballots, and the disputes over access that follow almost every cycle.

A district court decision on September 23, 2026, dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Des Moines Register, USA Today Co., and pollster Ann Selzer, finding inaccurate preelection polling did not constitute consumer fraud. Trump’s lawyers said they plan to appeal.