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Politics Dec 04
Biden officially secures enough electors to become presidentCalifornia has certified its presidential election and appointed 55 electors pledged to vote for Joe Biden, officially handing the Democrat the Electoral College majority needed to win the White House.
Politics Oct 25
GOP slowly gaining as early vote total surpasses 2016With nine days before Election Day, more people already have cast ballots in this year’s presidential election than voted early or absentee in the 2016 race as the start of in-person early voting in big states led to a surge…
Politics Oct 20
Republicans see bright spot in 2020 voter registration pushThe Republican Party has cut into Democrats' advantage in voter registration tallies across some critical presidential battleground states, a fact they point to as evidence of steady — and overlooked — enthusiasm for President Donald Trump and his party.
Nation Oct 16
More than 17 million Americans have already voted in the 2020 electionAmericans' rush to vote is leading election experts to predict that a record 150 million votes may be cast and turnout rates could be higher than in any presidential election since 1908.
Politics Sep 18
Majority plan to vote before Election Day, poll findsA majority of President Donald Trump's supporters plan to cast their ballot on Election Day, while about half of Joe Biden's backers plan to vote by mail, a sign of a growing partisan divide over how best to conduct elections…
Nation Sep 04
North Carolina kicks off mail voting as requests spikeMail voting has started in the presidential election as North Carolina begins to send out about 600,000 ballots to voters who have requested them. Those voters are overwhelmingly Democrats and independents.
Nation Aug 15
Q&A: What’s happening at the US Postal Service, and why?The U.S. Postal Service is warning states it cannot guarantee that all ballots cast by mail for the Nov. 3 election will arrive in time to be counted, even if ballots are mailed by state deadlines. That's raising the possibility…
Politics Aug 11
GOP ramps up effort to monitor voting after restrictions easedThe Republican Party heads into its first presidential contest this November free from decades-old legal constraints on the use of volunteers to monitor the polls on Election Day.
Politics May 27
Will mail-in voting turn Election Day into Election Week?The public may not know the winner of the presidential race on election day because of a massive shift to voting by mail during the coronavirus pandemic.
Politics May 21
Trump slams mail-in balloting promoted by his own campaignPresident Donald Trump is railing against mail-in balloting that in some cases has been promoted by his own reelection campaign.