Twenty-three states have laws banning betting on elections, according to Pew Research. Not every state is sure these rules apply to prediction market trades.

Maryland’s top election official is asking the state prosecutor to investigate the legality of prediction market platforms. The letter comes weeks after Elections Administrator Jared DeMarinis issued ...

L.A. County could become among the first major election jurisdictions to implement guidance or policy related to prediction markets.

When Jim Allen, the elections director for Delaware County, Pennsylvania, recently ran a training session for poll workers, he began a conversation about a topic he’d never previously had to address ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polymarket advertisements predict a victory for Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral election in November 2025. (Olga ...

BOSTON — Election officials are increasingly concerned that the proliferation of prediction markets could further fuel distrust and disruption around the midterm elections in an already contentious ...

A few days before the first round of Los Angeles’s mayoral primary, Kalshi and Polymarket gave reality TV star Spencer Pratt a 75 percent chance of advancing to the general election. Kalshi published ...

Prediction market platform Kalshi launched a central page for viewers of its prediction markets to see how speculators believe the midterm elections will play out. Visitors to the "Midterms Hub" will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Polymarket screen showing trades on potential Democratic presidential candidates in February. Prediction markets say users are ...