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Updated 4 days, 9 hours ago

Dent leads Garcia in 13th District race

MOSES LAKE — Incumbent Rep. Tom Dent, R-Moses Lake, maintained a commanding lead in the race for Position 1 in Was…

Updated 6 years ago
Top Democrat says district will be redrawn after GOP win

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A day after Republicans won back New Mexico's only conservative-leaning congressional district, a top state Democrat said its boundaries will be redrawn in redistricting that will be guided…

Updated 6 years ago
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Updated 6 years ago
Kansas candidate behind revenge porn wins state House seat

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Democratic candidate who admitted to circulating revenge porn and who was charged at the age of 14 with threatening to shoot a high school student has won a state House seat in Kansas.

Updated 6 years ago
Record 5.5M voted in Michigan; highest percentage in decades

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — More than 5.5 million people voted in Michigan's presidential election — the most ever and the highest percentage of voting-age residents to cast a ballot in 60 years.

Updated 6 years ago
Correction: Election 2020-Wisconsin story

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — In a story November 4, 2020, about the presidential result in Wisconsin, The Associated Press, relying on information from the Wisconsin Elections Commission, erroneously reported that Presiden…

Updated 6 years ago
NH House, Senate flip to GOP after 2 years in minority

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Republicans have won majorities in both chambers of the New Hampshire Legislature, returning the state to same scenario it faced four years ago: GOP control at the Statehouse and Democratic dom…

Updated 6 years ago
US Postal Service found 815 ballots in Texas facility sweeps

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — More than 800 mail ballots were found in Texas mail processing facilities and delivered to county election officials between Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the U.S. Postal Service.

Updated 6 years ago
San Diego elects youngest House representative in California

SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego has elected the youngest U.S. House representative in California.

Updated 6 years ago
Mississippi governor says he'd veto mail-in or early voting

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two days after Mississippi voters stood in long lines at polling places, Republican Gov. Tate Reeves said Thursday that he would veto any efforts to broaden state laws to allow widespread mail…

Updated 6 years ago
San Diego elects California's youngest House representative

San Diego (AP) — San Diego has elected California’s youngest U.S. House representative.

Updated 6 years ago
EXPLAINER: States still in play and what makes them that way

WASHINGTON (AP) — A handful of states remained in play Thursday in the tightly contested U.S. presidential race. The outcome of contests in Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Nevada will determine whether De…

Updated 6 years ago
Records were shattered for voter participation in Maine

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's top election official said voter participation records were shattered in the election.

Updated 6 years ago
NY Democrats' bid for a supermajority remains uncertain

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The fate of Democrats’ bid for a supermajority in New York’s Legislature remained uncertain Thursday as election officials prepared to start counting a mountain of absentee ballots.

Updated 6 years ago
GOP congressional winner says she hopes for cooperation

WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Fresh off winning a

Updated 6 years ago
Record 4M voters cast ballots in election, Murphy says

More than 4 million ballots were cast in this week's presidential election in New Jersey, the most in state history, Gov. Phil Murphy said Thursday.