When will we know the results of the presidential election?
Voters may not have to wait quite as long after Election Day as four years ago to know whom the next president will be. The public needed to wait almost five days in 2020 before most major news outlets could issue a projection, the longest they had to wait since the infamous 2000 election. One…
Stanford delays vote to rescind Scott Atlas censure until after Election Day
Stanford’s Faculty Senate delayed voting on whether it should rescind its censure of a top adviser to former President Donald Trump because the timing of the vote could be interpreted as a political move. Dr. Scott Atlas, the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health policy at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, was punished with […]
Final results may lag in deadlocked presidential contest, anxious election officials warn
Voters make selections at their voting booths inside an early voting site on October 17, 2024 in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Several counties effected by Hurricane Helene saw a large turnout of residents for the first day of early voting in Western North Carolina. (Photo by Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)
Not everything will run perfectly on Election Day. Still, results are remarkably reliable
WASHINGTON — On Election Day, some voting lines likely will be long and some precincts may run out of ballots. An election office website could go down temporarily and ballot-counting machines will jam. Or people who help run elections might just act like the humans they are, forgetting their key to a local polling place so it has to open later than scheduled.
Here are the states we could be waiting on to declare a Harris-Trump winner
Voters are increasingly likely to have to wait past Election Day to find out who will become their next president. Among the battleground states, Georgia could be the first to be called, even as early as midnight, some experts predict. But other states such as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are expected to have delays that push […]
Michigan 2020 vote machine tampering trial delayed — until after 2024 election
PONTIAC — What would have been Michigan's first criminal trial stemming from attempts to discredit the 2020 election has been delayed until after this year's presidential contest. A new court date has been set for Dec. 2 for Stefanie Lambert, a Michigan attorney accused of tampering with voting machines...