ELECTION DAY

Fox News host Tucker Carlson reacts to released footage of the Capitol breach on January 6 and calls out lawmakers for lying about the incident on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

Former Rep. Liz Cheney is taking on the role of professor of practice at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, the center announced Wednesday.

Lightfoot seeking second term. A runoff will take place April 4 if no one gets over 50 percent of Tuesday's vote.

Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.

Arizona's Maricopa County faced criticism as it took days to count its votes in 2022. The county's Republican recorder has a proposal to try to fix the problems he sees.

Former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake is filed two appeals on Wednesday, challenging a judge's decision on widespread election misconduct.

Something was proved without a shadow of doubt in Kari Lake's trial, all right. And it should be followed up with sanctions.

My guess - after watching Monday's hearing on a motion to dismiss Kari Lake's lawsuit - is that Lake may as well reach for her matches.

After disappointing results in this year's elections, Republicans are reevaluating their antipathy to mail voting.

But former President Donald Trump has disparaged early voting and voting by mail.

How Warnock did it, plus what it adds to our understanding of the 2022 election (and of Trump).

This year, Brad Raffensperger won re-election by the largest margin of victory in any of Georgia's midterm races.

Nonprofit organizations in Georgia are digging deep to ramp up their operations again after Election Day to inform voters about the closely watched runoff race for one of the state's Senate seats.

The former president will campaign with Warnock on the eve of the final day of early voting.

Democrat Rafael Warnock is facing a U.S. Senate runoff against Republican Herschel Walker in Georgia.

Barack Obama is urging Georgia Democrats to keep pushing voting turnout for Sen. Raphael Warnock.

A report issued Sunday to the Arizona attorney general’s office blames Republicans for stoking doubts about a secure alternative available to voters.

The claim comes as Lake has refused to concede in the state’s gubernatorial race despite her opponent Katie Hobbs’ win earlier this month.

Fears of aggressive poll watchers sowing chaos at polling stations or conservative groups trying to intimidate votes didn't materialize on Election Day as many election officials and voting rights experts had feared.

Republican groups have filed an appeal with Georgia's highest court in an attempt to prohibit early voting this Saturday in the U.S. Senate runoff election between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker.

Arizona Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Wright sent a letter Saturday to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office demanding answers to "myriad" Election Day issues.

When he stepped inside a Phoenix polling place on the morning of Election Day on the way to work, Kevin Bembry was told that the tabulation machines were not functioning properly and he might want to vote somewhere else. “I’ve never had that happen before,” Bembry, 57, a security officer, said in a video later posted online. His testimony was one of many circulated on social media by activist groups, right-wing media outlets and Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for governor, whose campaign po

The board overseeing a southeastern Arizona county whose Republican leaders had hoped to recount all Election Day ballots on Friday delayed certifying the results of last week's vote after hearing from a trio of conspiracy theorists who alleged that counting machines were not certified. The three men, or some combination of them, have filed at least four cases raising similar claims before the Arizona Supreme Court since 2021 seeking to have the state's 2020 election results thrown out.

Conservative Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., leads her Democratic challenger Adam Frisch by just 551 votes, within the margin for an automatic recount.

The pilgrimage to Trump’s club shows how the failed Republican candidate for governor is seeking to maintain her profile in the former president’s orbit.

Lengthy vote counts in states such as Arizona or California can frustrate candidates and their supporters, but they don't indicate anything is wrong with the voting or the tallying of ballots.

The two Republicans who control the elected board in a rural Arizona county have sued their own election director to force her to conduct a greatly expanded hand-count of ballots cast in the Nov. 8 election.

The two Republicans who control the elected board in a rural Arizona county have sued their own elections director to force her to conduct a greatly expanded hand count of ballots cast in the Nov. 8 election, a standoff that could affect certification of the results. The county's attorney warned the private lawyers representing the two GOP board members that taking ballots without authorization could subject their clients to felony charges. At a raucous board meeting Tuesday, several members of the public berated the two Republicans on the three-member board for pursuing the hand count.

Under Arizona law, an election recount will automatically trigger if the margin of victory is less than 0.5 percent of the vote. Hobbs leads Lake by just 0.78 percent.

As the nation awaits the results of the ongoing ballot counting in California, a deep look into the state's election processes provides insight into the delay in results.

Vote counting had gone on since last Tuesday's election as officials continued to tally massive amounts of late-arriving ballots.

The six-term Congressman currently serving Arizona's 6th district has won election to Arizona's 1st House seat in a key win for Republicans.

The Associated Press called the Arizona governor’s race for Democrat Katie Hobbs on Monday after the latest round of vote releases gave her a lead that the AP determined she would not relinquish.

The subdued mood marks a reversal from just days earlier, when the Republican gubernatorial nominee in Arizona was readying a transition team.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called for an investigation into Election Day problems in Harris County, where voting hours had to be extended last Tuesday.

The Supreme Court has again declined to hear a lawsuit involving a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, the gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns.

There was no violence in the midterm elections last week, and many election deniers lost and quietly conceded.

The post-election narrative was instead focused on each party's electoral fate: Republicans were disappointed that sweeping victories didn't materialize, while relieved Democrats braced for the possibility of a slim House GOP majority. At least for now, the serious threats that loomed over democracy heading into Election Day — domestic extremist violence, voter intimidation and Republican refusal to respect election outcomes — did not materialize in any pervasive way. “It was a good day, I think, for democracy,” President Joe Biden said, even as he acknowledged his party might lose one chamber of Congress.

Data analysis by The Washington Post undercuts claims pushed by Kari Lake and former President Donald Trump, among others.

Republicans despair as Democrats retain control of the Senate despite the polarized political climate.

Key groups of voters like pressured parents held sway on Election Day,

Republicans' wait for a majority in the U.S. House dragged into another day Tuesday.

Dan Bongino shares how things need to get worse before voters elect Republicans because "this bad stuff just ain't bad enough" to vote out Democrats on "Unfiltered."

The Associated Press has not yet called the governor's race in Arizona between Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and Republican former TV broadcaster Kari Lake.

"This is very, very common,” a Maricopa County leader said. “I know people are very anxious to get the results but there is nothing out of the ordinary here.”

The election was still too close to call Friday, with 31,000 votes separating Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs from GOP opponent Kari Lake.

Blake Masters wasn’t posting the numbers of votes he needed in Election Day ballots as they were counted and released days later by officials in Arizona’s biggest county.

The board of supervisors in a southern Arizona county will meet next week to consider counting nearly all the ballots cast in-person on Election Day.

The board of supervisors in a southern Arizona county will meet next week to consider counting nearly all the ballots cast in-person on Election Day, despite an earlier court order limiting the hand-count driven by unfounded distrust in machines that tabulate votes. The actual count may start before Tuesday's planned meeting of the Cochise County board, and the local prosecutor is warning starting it at any time may lead to criminal charges. The moves come just days after a judge ruled that state law bars expanding the normal small hand-count audit of early ballots.

Michigan saw record turnout for a midterm election this week, with control of the governor’s office and referendums on abortion and voting rights in the balance. Elections officials, government watchdog groups and other experts, however, said the election process was carried out according to state law. CLAIM: City officials in Ann Arbor were registering new voters and allowing them to vote long after the polls closed on Election Day.

One big reason: Arizona voters dropped off hundreds of thousands of mail ballots on Election Day. Now comes the arduous task of processing and tallying those ballots.

Local officials are hungry for answers after a paper shortage at various polling locations in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania caused issues for voters.

Republicans did what they needed to do on Election Day and will be a bulwark against destructive Biden policies.

Election officials, who long expected the vote count to take as many as 12 days, say ballot printer issues are not slowing results.

All eyes are on Arizona, Nevad and Georgia, where Democratic incumbents need to win at least two of those states to retain power.

Polls closed three days ago in Arizona, but counting votes for the 2022 midterm elections continued into the weekend.

Two days after the midterm elections, misinformation about the results remains focused on Arizona and Pennsylvania.

Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri blamed compromises on insulin caps, gun control and infrastructure spending for the GOP's mixed Election Day results.

Harris County Election Administrator Clifford Tatum said he would get to the bottom of the issues Texans experienced when heading to the polls on Election Day.

Democrats are holding on to narrow leads in key Arizona contests, but the races for U.S. Senate and governor are still too early to call.

A statement addressing Election Day voting machine delays in Arizona has been released by Maricopa County Elections Department officials, amid a lawsuit from Republican candidates.

We're now in the post-Election Day phase of election season — with House and Senate control unknown. Here's what we know — and don't know — about some key races.

Poll workers educated voters about the process and deescalated conflict, state officials said, which kept allegations of wrongdoing from sparking unrest.

A day after the midterm elections, misinformation about the results is zeroing in on the states of Arizona and Pennsylvania.

Margins between Democrats and Republicans in key Arizona races narrowed considerably Wednesday as election officials chipped away at counting more than half a million mail ballots returned on Election Day and shortly before. Democrats maintained small but dwindling leads in key races for U.S. Senate, governor and secretary of state, while Republicans were optimistic the late-counted ballots would break heavily in their favor, as they did in 2020. With Republicans still in the hunt, it remained unclear whether the stronger-than-expected showing for Democrats nationally would extend to Arizona, a longtime Republican stronghold that became a battleground during Donald Trump's presidency.

The party might offer its gratitude to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and to the conservatives on the Supreme Court.

No digital intrusions are known to have affected the counting of the midterm vote.

Hundreds of thousands of votes are still being tallied in Arizona, where contested races including Senate and gubernatorial contests remained undeclared.

Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates apologized for vote tabulation machine errors that caused problems on Election Day, but insisted that there was no foul play.

Neither party has reached the necessary threshold to win control in the House or Senate as of early Friday.

Luke Priddy is projected to win the Roanoke City Council special election race, defeating Peg McGuire.

In case you’ve been living under a rock these last few weeks, today is election day!

Election Day has officially arrived, and it’s time to cast your vote in this year’s general election if you haven’t already!

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Six candidates for Danville City Council are vying for four seats, including Danville Mayor Alonzo Jones.

Voters in the U.S. who go on Twitter, TikTok, Facebook or other platforms to learn about Tuesday’s pivotal midterm elections are likely to encounter rumors, hearsay and misinformation.

If you’re tuning in now to Election Day in the U.S., voting in the midterm election ends when polls close on Tuesday.

The 2022 General Election will be held on November 8. You can find results for Radford here.

The 2022 General Election will be held on November 8. You can find results for Lynchburg here.

The city of Danville announced that Danville Transit will offer free bus service on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8.

Two of the seven candidates are currently on City Council.

When is early voting over in the midterm elections.

Much of the focus has shifted to the Senate, specifically a few select races that will decide control.

Republican election officials around New York refused to process absentee ballots amid a court challenge earlier this week.

Why has The Associated Press tallied votes and declared winners in U.S. elections since the middle of the 19th century.

It’s the night of the election and polls have been closed for hours.

Republican activists who believe the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump have crafted a plan that, in their telling, will thwart cheating in this year’s midterm elections.

With in-person voting now underway across Virginia, we wanted to show you what your ballot will look like before you go to the polls to vote.

Voting could feel different in this year's midterms, as the election falsehoods told by former President Donald Trump and many of his supporters have created a ripple effect across the country.

Election Day is a little under a month away, and those in the Commonwealth will soon be able to cast their vote for representatives for the U.S. Congress and candidates in local races as well.

Election Day is here, and we’re working for you on everything you need to know as you head to the polls.

Here’s an overview of where things stand in the Senate and House of Representatives with the election more than a month away.

A rural county in Nevada where conspiracy theories about voting machines run deep is planning to start hand-counting its mail-in ballots two weeks before Election Day, but the process risks public release of early voting results.

In-person voting for the midterm elections has started in Minnesota, South Dakota, Virginia and Wyoming, in a landscape that has changed since the pandemic drove a shift to mail balloting in the 2020 presidential contest.

As Election Day approaches, the fight over mail-in ballots is back.

Counting of mailed ballots in Pennsylvania is drawing renewed scrutiny amid a too-close-to-call U.S. Senate primary between Republicans David McCormick and Dr. Mehmet Oz. Former President Donald Trump blasted the state’s elections procedures on social media, even though there are no indications of any wrongdoing with those ballots other than a printing error that was slowing the tally in one county.

A federal judge has ruled that a former Kentucky clerk violated the constitutional rights of two same-sex couples, who were among those to whom she wouldn’t issue marriage licenses.

A federal judge has rejected motions to dismiss eight lawsuits that challenge Georgia’s sweeping new election law.

For those who enjoyed a break from political ads for a little while, get used to them ramping up again after the holiday season, if not sooner.