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News Articles: Elections

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  • Elections

What voters said about trans rights in the midterms

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kate Sosin, LGBTQ+ reporter for The 19th News, to discuss how voters responded to anti-trans rhetoric in this years midterm elections.

November 20, 2022
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By:
  • Michel Martin
A tweet by former President Donald Trump is displayed on a screen during a hearing held by the House Jan. 6 committee on June 9.

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  • Politics

Elon Musk allows Donald Trump back on Twitter

Twitter has become the first mainstream social media platform to reinstate the former president, who was banned from many sites after his supporters breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

November 20, 2022
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
The rising sun illuminates the U.S. Capitol building on Nov. 9, 2022 — the day after Election Day.

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  • Elections

The midterm elections dust has settled in Washington. Here are 5 key takeaways

Overall, the electorate delivered a warning against going too far, against extremes, but we're likely headed for a messy, partisan two years. Here, five lessons learned from last week's midterms.

November 19, 2022
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
Jim Marchant, center, GOP nominee for secretary of state in Nevada, lost his election and also underperformed fellow Republicans running for U.S. senator and governor.

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  • Elections

Election deniers performed especially poorly in races to oversee voting in key states

Secretary of state candidates who deny the 2020 election results generally underperformed fellow Republicans on the ballot in a handful of competitive states.

November 19, 2022
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By:
  • Miles Parks
Judge Thomas A. Cox. Jr. listens to a plaintiff in a Fulton County Courthouse on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022, in Atlanta. A lawsuit was filed by the Democratic Party of Georgia, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Warnock campaign that challenges guidance by Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, saying that it would be illegal to hold early voting on Saturday, Nov. 26, the day after a state holiday.

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  • Elections

Judge says Georgia law allows Saturday voting for runoff

A judge has ruled that Georgia law allows counties to offer early voting on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. That is the only possibility for Saturday voting before next month's Senate runoff election between Democratic Sen Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.

November 18, 2022
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By:
  • Associated Press
David Ralston - Riley Bunch

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Legislators remember Speaker Ralston; Nancy Pelosi leaves U.S. House leadership

Friday on Political Rewind: Legislators from all walks of life worked with Speaker David Ralston in the legislature. Today, three of them join the show to remember him and think ahead to what his absence will mean for the next session.

 

November 18, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more

Tagged as: 

  • National

Louisiana voters rejected an antislavery ballot measure. The reasons are complicated

Voters in four states — Vermont, Oregon, Alabama and Tennessee — approved antislavery ballot measures in the 2022 elections. The Louisiana amendment may have failed, in part, because of confusion.

November 17, 2022
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By:
  • Kaitlyn Radde
A row of 10-sided dice sit on the table after being used as part of process to randomly determine which batches of ballots to audit for a state-wide risk limiting audit of the 2022 general election during a press conference Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta.

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  • Elections

Georgia counties conduct audit of secretary of state race

Elections workers will hand count randomly selected batches of ballots to verify the outcome — but not exact margin — of the 2022 midterms.

November 17, 2022
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
Chatham County Board of Registrars Chairman Colin McRae speaks at a press conference in Savannah on Wednesday, Nov. 16.

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  • Politics

Chatham County election official criticizes state for not allowing early voting on Saturday, Nov. 26

Unless a court intervenes or the state changes its guidance, early voting in Chatham County will not begin until Sunday, Nov. 27.

November 17, 2022
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Former President Donald Trump waves after announcing he is running for president for the third time, on Nov. 15, 2022.

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  • Elections

With midterm losses, Trump's climb to the nomination could be steeper than he'd like

Donald Trump is officially running again, trying to avenge his loss to Joe Biden, even as Trump still refuses to admit he lost. Trump's push to overturn the 2020 outcome helped spark an insurrection.

November 16, 2022
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
GPB  NPR

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  • Elections

What would a Trump 2024 candidacy mean for the Republican Party?

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Republican strategist Ron Bonjean about the future of the Republican Party after the midterms, looking ahead to the 2024 election.

November 16, 2022
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By:
  • Erika Ryan,
  • Patrick Jarenwattananon,
  • and 1 more
People cast their early ballots for the 2022 general election at the Ann Arbor, Michigan city clerk's satellite office on the campus of the University of Michigan, on the eve of the U.S. midterm elections.

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  • Elections

Young voters helped Democrats win the Senate and other midterm elections

Young voters made their voices heard in the midterm vote.

November 15, 2022
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By:
  • Alana Wise
 The line of people waiting to cast ballots stretched around Atlanta’s Joan P. Garner library at Ponce de Leon Avenue and down the block after lunch on 2022’s last day of early voting. John McCosh/Georgia Recorder

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  • Elections

Georgia’s young voters ready for Dec. 6 runoff after new election rules tripped up some in midterms

“Vote by mail is a critical option that should be available to every voter to cast their ballots especially since this runoff coincides with final exams, the end of the semester and holiday,” a young voter said.

November 15, 2022
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
Democratic candidate for Arizona governor Katie Hobbs attends a campaign rally on Nov 6. in Tucson.

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  • Elections

Arizona Democrat Katie Hobbs elected governor over Trump-backed Republican Kari Lake

It was an incredibly tight race between Hobbs, the current secretary of state in Arizona, and Lake, who spent 22 years at a local Fox affiliate and was backed by former President Donald Trump.

November 15, 2022
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By:
  • Ben Giles
Voters in Bibb County take advantage of Sunday Voting on Oct. 23, 2022 in Macon, Georgia, ahead of the November midterm election.

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  • Elections

Democrats sue over lack of Saturday early voting in Georgia's U.S. Senate runoff

State officials say the law bars optional early voting the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Lawyers representing Democrats disagree.

November 15, 2022
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
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