Aspolls closeacross six time zones on election night, millions will be watching to see who the 47th U.S. president will be. But the wait is likely to be a long one for a few reasons that may not be readily apparent.Election resultsthat look like victory for one candidate at 10 p.m....
Voting data experts say one thing to keep in mind as results are released on election night: we're likely to see large shifts based on how partisan the numbers are between early voting and those who plan to vote on November 3. Their advice: be patient. 2020 ElectionPoliticsNews ...
A file photo of an early voting site in Suffolk County in October 2020. Credit: Gordon M. Grant By Michael Gormleymichael.gormley@newsday.com@GormleyAlbanyUpdated June 18, 2024 Share ALBANY — Early primary voting began Saturday statewide and will continue for nine days before the traditional pr...
While several states temporarily established early voting options when Covid-19 cases raged in 2020, Virginia enshrined those options permanently for general elections. Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, who the candidates are vying to replace, signed legislation into law in April 2020 that al...
With more Democrats than Republicans voting by mail, the early results—based on in-person Election Day votes—will probably show Trump ahead, but his lead will likely shrink as more mail ballots are counted. That pattern in 2020 prompted Trump to falsely claim fraud. This year, a new law ...
While California’s early voting is not expected to have a major change on the Presidential race in California, other races are likely to be affected by early voting. Most notably are the6 tight House elections in the state, the result of which could tip the balance of the House for eithe...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Preliminary results of the U.S. midterm elections suggest that the newly elected Congress will be split between the Democratic and Republican parties, as voting ended early Wednesday. Voting in parts of the state of Alaska ended 8 p.m. local time (0600 GMT...
Database errors in Spalding County, and minor delays in printing and reading ballots in others resulted in polls extending their hours Tuesday to accompany the required 12 hours of voting time. Latest Campaign Communications At 12:45am EST, Biden said he believed he was still on track to win...
Early in-person voting is beginning in Arizona, making it the first of this year’s presidential battleground states where all residents can cast a ballot at a traditional polling place ahead of Election Day.
After the polls closed on Election Night in 2020 and then-President Trump began claiming that mail-in voting was "rife with fraud," as his early lead diminished, Republicans have even less incentivized to cast mail-in ballots, the election experts said. In Pennsylvania, where Trump...