While President Donald Trump vows to press ahead with efforts to overturn the election, judges across the country have consistently swatted down his legal challenges...
As President Donald Trump continues to push falsehoods about the election, his legal team has so far failed to gain any traction in court without evidence of widespread fraud, which experts widely agree doesn’t exist...
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia says it’s going to be tallying — by hand — nearly 5 million ballots that were cast in its very close presidential election on Nov...
In normal times, the certification of election results is a routine process that doesn’t get much attention...
President Donald Trump's legal allies have launched a flurry of lawsuits arguing that widespread fraud could have been committed because its poll watchers didn't get proper access to the voting process...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Saturday's election verdict isn’t the last step in selecting an American president...
WHY AP CALLED THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FOR BIDEN:
As Election Day ground on into “election week,” it became increasingly clear that Democrat Joe Biden would oust President Donald Trump from the White House...
WHY AP CALLED PENNSYLVANIA FOR BIDEN:
Four years ago, President Donald Trump breached the Democrats’ “blue wall,” narrowly winning Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — a trio of Great Lakes states that had long served as a bulwark against Republican presidential candidates...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The slow pace of this year’s U.S. election count is fueling a lot of criticism, but it's mostly a reflection of laudable things: greater voter enthusiasm and steps that states took to protect their residents from COVID-19...
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The pace of vote-counting in Nevada is being criticized for taking too long and it's even become fodder for online jokes...
WHY AP CALLED NEVADA FOR BIDEN:
The Associated Press declared Joe Biden the winner of Nevada's presidential contest Saturday, after a batch 15,000 ballots released by state election officials gave the former vice president a more than 2 percentage point lead over President Donald Trump...
They're still counting votes across Georgia, and it's really, really close. While Democrat Joe Biden surpassed President Donald Trump early Friday, his lead is very narrow, and under Georgia law a candidate can request a recount if the margin is within 0...
Across the country, any uncounted ballots cast by Election Day are being verified and tabulated as election officials work toward reporting results of the 2020 presidential election...
The counting isn't over yet, but Democrats in Congress are already asking what went wrong. That's because it's looking like their expected gains in the House aren't happening...
WHY AP HASN'T CALLED GEORGIA'S CLOSE RACE
A razor-thin margin and ongoing vote count are what’s making the Georgia contest between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden too early to call...
Two days later, an uneasy United States is still waiting to hear who will be its next president. With Democrat Joe Biden pushing closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win, President Donald Trump’s campaign has attacked the integrity of the voting process with They go together all too closely these days: momentous events — and bad information that tells an inaccurate story about how they're happening...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two days after Election Day, protests across the United States are scattered, happening in places from Portland, Oregon and Seattle to Washington, D...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A handful of states remained in play Thursday in the tightly contested U.S. presidential race...
WHY AP CALLED WISCONSIN FOR BIDEN:
Democrat Joe Biden has flipped the state of Wisconsin, a crucial presidential battleground that President Donald Trump carried by less than a percentage point in 2016...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A handful of pivotal states remained in play Wednesday in the tightly contested U...
Anxious Americans woke up Wednesday to an election aftermath that has yet to deliver any clear answer...
WHY AP CALLED MICHIGAN FOR BIDEN:
Democrat Joe Biden has won the electoral battleground of Michigan, the third state that President Donald Trump carried in 2016 that the former vice president has flipped...
WHY AP HASN'T CALLED GEORGIA:
The Associated Press has not declared a winner in Georgia’s presidential contest because the race between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden is too early to call, with ballots yet to be counted in counties where Biden has performed well...
WHY AP CALLED NORTH CAROLINA FOR TRUMP
The Associated Press declared Donald Trump the winner in North Carolina on Friday after concluding there were not enough ballots left to be counted that would allow Joe Biden to overtake his lead...
A CLOSER LOOK AT ARIZONA
State officials said Friday there are 150,000 votes still to be counted in Arizona, a Western presidential battleground state where Democrat Joe Biden had a ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans won’t know the winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election until well into Wednesday — if not beyond that.
The main reason? Many states made it easier to request a mail ballot amid the coronavirus pandemic and concerns about crowded polling places.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden addressed his supporters early Wednesday. It was not an acceptance speech or a concession speech...
WHY AP CALLED FLORIDA FOR TRUMP:
In Florida, one of 2020′s most crucial battleground states, President Donald Trump’s strength in his recently adopted home state delivered a victory over Democratic nominee Joe Biden...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats remained favored to retain control of the House as votes were being counted Tuesday night, but it may be hours or days before the outcome is certain...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Election Day ushered in skirmishes near the White House and relatively minor demonstrations in California and elsewhere on the West Coast, but none of the widespread unrest that some had feared in the hours after the polls began closing around the country...
WHY AP CALLED VIRGINIA FOR BIDEN:
The AP declared Democratic nominee Joe Biden the winner of Virginia at 7:31 p...
WHAT HAPPENED:
The U.S. Postal Service says it can't meet a federal judge’s order to sweep processing centers for undelivered mail-in ballots...
The voter turnout for the 2020 presidential election was massive by recent standards. But it didn't come close to surpassing the record set in 1876...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An unprecedented 103.2 million people cast their ballots early in this year's presidential election...
WASHINGTON (AP) — One key concern about Election Day 2020 in the United States: misinformation, disinformation, and how they could affect the way Americans vote...
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Election officials in a handful of states are warning voters to disregard “robocalls” urging them to stay home rather than go to the polls...
IS THERE A DEADLINE BY WHICH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE MUST OFFICIALLY HAVE ALL ITS VOTES IN?
Election Day is only one point in the process of the Electoral College, which decides who wins a U...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans in the 21st century aren't always the most patient of people — and a deeply anticipated nail-biter of a 2020 election is certainly no exception...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Long voting lines on Election Day aren’t unusual or necessarily a sign of that something nefarious is afoot...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden each has a path to win the White House...
Patience, America.
We may not know who won the presidential election on Tuesday night. And if so, it does not necessarily mean anything is broken, fraudulent, corrupted or wrong...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the 2020 U.S. general election, The Associated Press will declare winners in more than 7,000 races – starting with the White House and reaching down the ballot to every seat in every state legislature...
A major misconception about the vote for U.S. president is that it is a national election. It’s not...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Every four years at the stroke of noon on Jan. 20, the president-elect or the reelected president of the United States takes the oath of office for a four-year term...