Democrat Katie Porter captured a Republican-held U.S. House seat Thursday in the heart of what once was Southern California’s Reagan country, extending a rout of the state’s GOP House delegation that might not be over.
Read moreA Democrat who trailed a Republican incumbent in a costly U.S. House race came from behind to emerge as the victor Thursday following extra rounds of tabulations under Maine’s new voting system that’s facing a legal challenge.
Read moreFlorida’s secretary of state has ordered a manual recount in the state’s hotly contested U.S. Senate race.
Read moreIn a courtroom victory for Democratic incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson, a federal judge ruled Thursday that Florida’s handling of mail-in and provisional ballots in the midterm election was deficient and disenfranchised voters.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Wednesday night that Georgia election officials cannot certify the final results of the 2018 general election, including the outcome of the hotly contested governor’s race, until all counties count absentee ballots that feature an omitted or incorrect voter birth date.
Read moreA week ago on Election Night, Republicans had cause to believe the seawall they built against the predicted “blue wave” in California was going to hold up. Now, it looks like the wave will wash away the GOP’s remaining hopes for relevance in the Golden State as many of the slender leads held by congressional incumbents in competitive races have either vanished or narrowed.
Read moreFlorida’s recount madness continued on Wednesday, one day before the state’s 67 counties must finish tallying ballots by machine.
Read moreRepublican incumbent Rep. Dana Rohrabacher refuses to concede in his race to save his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, despite being about 10,000 votes behind Democratic challenger Harley Rouda as of Tuesday morning and even after the Associated Press called the race on Saturday.
Read moreSheriff’s deputies and dozens of volunteer monitors kept close watch over vote-counting Tuesday in an out-of-the-way West Palm Beach warehouse, a fulcrum point in the ongoing Senate and gubernatorial race recounts.
Read moreThe Democratic Party says a $30 million investment in engaging Latino and other minority voters helped the Democrats achieve a net gain of 34 House seats and improve on 2014 turnout numbers.
Read moreAt risk of losing his seat in Congress to a Democratic challenger, a Maine Republican brought a federal complaint Tuesday in protest of the state’s new system of ranked-choice voting.
Read moreA federal judge on Monday ordered Georgia election officials to review thousands of provisional ballots cast in last week’s election for governor, and said they cannot certify statewide results in the race until late Friday afternoon.
Read moreKyrsten Sinema has won the U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, flipping it from Republican to the Democrats. Her opponent Martha McSally conceded on Monday after Sinema’s lead grew to 38,197 votes at 5 p.m., a 1.7 percent margin.
Read more(CN) — Florida’s secretary of state on Saturday ordered a statewide machine recount of three races: for governor, U.S. Senate, and agriculture commissioner. Returns for all three races fall within the 0.5 percent margin that triggers a recount under state law.
Read moreDemocrat Kyrsten Sinema stretched her lead over Republican Martha McSally to just over 1 percent Friday in the undecided Arizona U.S. Senate race to replace retiring Sen. Jeff Flake, and a court battle continued over whether to count thousands of ballots.
Read moreThe blue wave crashed into several midwest states in a midterm election that saw Democrats gain the most amount of U.S. House seats in a midterm since the aftermath of Watergate in 1974.
Read moreFour black Alabama students filed a federal lawsuit against state officials Friday, claiming they were told to cast provisional ballots on Election Day even though they registered to vote before the deadline.
Read moreThe battle over Florida’s disputed election results deepened Friday with a flurry of lawsuits and emergency hearings held in courtrooms in Broward and Palm Beach counties.
Read moreRepublican former Secretary of State Brian Kemp may have declared himself the winner of Georgia’s contentious gubernatorial race Wednesday evening, but Democrat Stacey Abrams refuses to back down, maintaining that uncounted ballots could force a runoff in the race.
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