Millions of ballots have been counted in the two weeks following the election, as officials have worked to verify vote totals and count ballots that were not counted or had not been received by Election Day. In some cases, votes in these close races have changed which candidate led.
A conservative legal organization is ratcheting up its opposition to the requirement in Illinois that mail-in ballots be counted for 14 days after Election Day by calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse federal court rulings that upheld the law because three Republican plaintiffs lacked the legal standing to challenge it.
Utah allows ballots received after Election Day to be counted as long as they're postmarked before the election Only ballots received before the polls close on Election Day would be valid under proposed legislation State lawmakers failed to endorse the proposal, but it may still be introduced at the 2025 Legislature
Several contests that could determine the balance of power in Congress remain too close to call two weeks after Election Day.
"Morning Joe" ratings continued to fall after the hosts' meeting with Trump, with Wednesday's telecast ranking as its lowest-rated program since 2021
"Pivoting our attention to local elections, candidates and issues can be really empowering,” says Sam Kang of Civics Learning Project.
After warning voters for years that a Donald Trump win would be calamitous for American democracy, Biden has gone largely silent on his concerns about what lays ahead for America and he has yet to substantively reflect on why Democrats were decisively defeated up and down the ballot.
MSNBC has seen its audience flee since President-elect Trump’s Election Day victory over Vice President Kamala Harris despite a historic news cycle that has unfolded in the days since.
Donald Trump’s attorneys argued that the decision made by voters on Election Day matters more than that of the jury who found him guilty of felonies this year in court filings made public Wednesday previewing renewed efforts to get his criminal hush money case tossed.
It’s been two weeks since California counties started counting ballots on Election Day, and an estimated 620,000 votes remain to be processed. A handful of counties still have large batches of votes that they have not reported to the California Secretary of State,
Report by coalition of voting rights groups found numerous problems on Election Day across the Commonwealth including accessibility to the polls, broken tabulation machines and ballot shortages.
Alaska law allows by-mail ballots to be counted as long as they are received up to two weeks after Election Day.