Jim Small, Arizona Mirror Kari Lake is demanding that the courts overturn Katie Hobbs’ victory in last month’s midterm and instead declare the former television news anchor Arizona governor-elect or, barring that, entirely throw out the 2022 election and re-do it. In a sprawling lawsuit that claims the election in …
Read More »Colorado’s Automatic Recount Law Triggered In Boebert-Frisch House Race
Chase Woodruff, Colorado Newsline Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold on Wednesday formally ordered a mandatory recount of the results for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District race, pursuant to the state’s automatic recount law. In the final tabulation of unofficial results, Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert led her opponent, Democrat Adam …
Read More »State Board Certifies Michigan Election Results Despite Protest From Some GOP Candidates
Allison R. Donahue, Michigan Advance The Michigan Board of State Canvassers unanimously voted Monday to certify the results of the Nov. 8 election. The midterm election resulted in victories for the three Democratic incumbents in the top statewide offices. Democrats in Michigan also took control of both the state House …
Read More »Early Voting For U.S. Senate Runoff Sees Long Lines Amid High Turnout
By: GPB News Staff Early voting ahead of the U.S. Senate runoff election between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker began in several Georgia counties over the weekend with a patchwork of start dates and times. Statewide early voting for all 159 counties begins today and ends Friday, Dec. 2 …
Read More »Commentary: What The Midterm Results Say About U.S. Voters In 2022
By Robert B. Talisse The results from the U.S. midterm elections came as a shock to many. The sitting president’s party typically suffers significant losses in House, Senate and gubernatorial races in the first midterm election of a president’s term. Several projections leading up to Election Day speculated that a …
Read More »Voting Rights Advocates, Democrats Urge Voters To Cast A Ballot Early And Avoid Mailing It In
Ross Williams, Georgia Recorder Democratic-leaning groups are urging Georgians to cast their ballots in person if they can for the Dec. 6 runoff election. “As you know, the mail is slow,” reads a recent email from the Gwinnett County Democratic Party. “If you want the Gwinnett County Elections office to …
Read More »Mary Peltola – the first Alaska Native elected to Congress – will keep U.S. House seat
Candice Norwood Originally published by The 19th Democratic Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola, who just two months ago became the first Alaska Native elected to Congress, won the general election and will keep her seat in the state’s only U.S. House district for a full two-year term. Peltola’s bipartisan appeal, ability …
Read More »Democrats Stress Continued Importance Of Georgia’s U.S. Senate Race Despite Party’s Majority control
Ross Williams, Georgia Recorder With Senate seats in Arizona and Nevada going to Democrats, the party will be assured of a slim majority regardless of whether Herschel Walker defeats Sen. Raphael Warnock in next month’s runoff election, now less than three weeks away. When Warnock and fellow Democratic Sen. Jon …
Read More »Democrat Adam Frisch Concedes To Rep. Lauren Boebert In Congressional Race
Quentin Young, Colorado Newsline The race between Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and Democratic challenger Adam Frisch in Colorado is over. During a live announcement Friday morning, Frisch said he had conceded the race, which remains exceedingly close but not likely to change in Frisch’s favor. “I just got …
Read More »Ted Cruz Lashes Out At Senate GOP Leadership After Democrats Retain Control
Stephen Neukam and Matthew Choi, The Texas Tribune A fight is brewing between Senate Republicans as they prepare to pick their leader for the next Congress — and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is among a loud cohort voicing their discontent with leadership after the party failed to retake control …
Read More »Democrats Beat Election-Denying Secretary of State Candidates in Arizona and Nevada
On Friday night, two additional Democratic candidates for secretary of state defeated Republicans who endorsed former President Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” that the 2020 presidential contest was stolen, delivering another blow to far-right conspiracy theorists running for top elections posts. In Arizona, Democrat Adrian Fontes beat his Republican opponent Mark Finchem, …
Read More »With Cortez Masto’s Victory In Nevada, Democrats Retain Control Of U.S. Senate
April Corbin Girnus, Nevada Current In a nailbiter watched all over the country, Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto prevailed over challenger Republican Adam Laxalt and secured Democratic control of the U.S. Senate in the process. Cortez Masto was considered by many to be one of the most vulnerable U.S. …
Read More »GOP On Track To Control U.S. House, But Dozens Of Races Still Undecided
Republicans remained on pace to likely wrest control of the U.S. House, even as Democrats picked up a few more victories in close races late Wednesday and into the day Thursday. As of about 5 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, The Associated Press had called 209 races for Republicans. That put …
Read More »Which Party Controls Congress? It Could Be Days Or Weeks Before We Know
President Joe Biden and Democrats exulted Wednesday in outperforming expectations in the midterm elections, even as vote-counting was still in progress and control of both chambers of Congress remained unknown. The U.S. Senate will go to the winner of two of the last three races where party control is still …
Read More »Supreme Court Allows States To Use Unlawfully Gerrymandered Congressional Maps In The 2022 Midterm Elections
Henry L. Chambers Jr., University of Richmond In the upcoming midterm elections, states may use maps that a federal court has found unlawful. You read that right: The U.S. Supreme Court recently barred federal courts from requiring states to fix their newly adopted, but unlawful, congressional maps before the 2022 …
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