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News Articles: Elections

Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams left the stage after addressing supporters during an election night watch party in 2018. She accepted her loss but never conceded.

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  • Elections

Trump Hasn't Conceded Georgia. Neither Did Stacey Abrams. What Changed?

The president's questioning of the election process isn't the first time Georgia voters have heard that. State officials say claims about impropriety — past and present — are false.

November 18, 2020
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By:
  • Emma Hurt
Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., broke barriers when she was the first woman elected speaker of the House in 2007. Democrats lost the majority in 2011, but she regained the gavel in 2019 when Democrats ousted the GOP in the 2018 midterms.

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  • Politics

Pelosi Reelected Speaker By House Democrats Despite Party's Losses

After Republicans unexpectedly picked up at least eight seats, House Democrats are still sorting out what went wrong. The party leadership must balance clashing priorities in the next term.

November 18, 2020
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By:
  • Deirdre Walsh
Poll workers check voters' identifications on Election Day at the Orpheum Theater in Madison, Wis. The Trump campaign has announced it is filing for a recount in two Wisconsin counties.

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  • Elections

Trump Campaign To File For Partial Recount In Wisconsin

The campaign is filing for recounts in Milwaukee and Dane counties — and paying $3 million for it. Wisconsin does not have automatic recounts, although a losing candidate can file a sworn petition.

November 18, 2020
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By:
  • Barbara Sprunt
"There's this sense that decisions about the pandemic are being made in cities and kind of imposed on rural spaces," said Kathy Cramer, an expert on the rural-urban divide at the University of Wisconsin.

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  • National

Biden's Win Shows Rural-Urban Divide Has Grown Since 2016

In the 2020 election, the rural-urban divide sharpened even further from 2016, with Republicans consolidating power in rural America which could help them hold onto the U.S. Senate.

November 18, 2020
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By:
  • Kirk Siegler
14 auditors split into seven teams of two began the manual recount of around 71,000 presidential ballots in Macon, Ga., Friday, part of the recount of about 5 million votes cast statewide that must end by midnight on Wednesday, November 18.

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  • Elections

As Audit Concludes, Georgia's Vote Count Shows Biden Still Ahead

Georgia counties are counting the final ballots as part of an unprecedented full hand recount risk-limiting audit of the presidential race. The process uncovered a handful of mistakes county elections officials should have caught otherwise, but the outcome should remain the same.

November 18, 2020
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
Election workers count absentee ballots earlier this month in Detroit, the county seat of Wayne County, Mich.

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  • Elections

Michigan's Wayne County Certifies Election Results After Brief GOP Refusal

The Republican members of the bipartisan Wayne County Board of Canvassers sought to block the certification of the state's most populous county — but they soon relented under withering criticism.

November 18, 2020
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By:
  • Colin Dwyer

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  • Elections

How Biden Won: Ramping Up The Base And Expanding Margins In The Suburbs

Remarkably few counties shifted in the 2020 election, which saw sky-high turnout. The president's base voted in big numbers in rural areas, but Biden's gains in the suburbs propelled him to victory.

November 18, 2020
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro and
  • Connie Hanzhang Jin
A supporter of President Trump fastens Trump campaign flags to a police barricade last week in Philadelphia.

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  • Elections

Led By Giuliani, Trump Campaign Effort To Stop Certification Falters In Pennsylvania

The campaign suffered a major loss for its flailing effort to overturn the election results. Action by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday followed a string of other defeats.

November 18, 2020
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By:
  • Pam Fessler
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger

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  • Politics

Trump Campaign Started Pressuring Georgia's Secretary Of State Long Before The Election

Long before Republican senators began publicly denouncing how Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger handled the voting there, he withstood pressure from the campaign of Donald Trump to endorse the president for reelection.

November 18, 2020
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By:
  • Jessica Huseman and
  • Mike Spies
Carter Center monitor in Macon yesterday.

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  • Elections

Second Georgia County Failed To Upload All Of Its Votes

The secretary of state's office said the risk-limiting audit discovered Fayette County failed to tabulate about 2,750 votes from a memory card, bringing the overall advantage for Joe Biden to just under 13,000.

November 17, 2020
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
Christopher Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, was fired by President Trump on Tuesday.

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  • Elections

Trump Fires Election Security Director Who Corrected Voter Fraud Disinformation

President Trump, who has refused to accept the results of the White House race, tweeted that Krebs had been terminated "effective immediately."

November 17, 2020
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By:
  • Alana Wise
President-elect Joe Biden's coronavirus advisers say they urgently need access to federal agencies to begin the transition.

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  • Elections

Biden's COVID-19 Advisers Plead For 'Ascertainment' So They Can Plan For January

President-elect Joe Biden's science advisers say they need to be able to talk to federal scientists and get access to data so there's no hold-up in vaccines and other COVID-19 response.

November 17, 2020
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks during a news conference Wednesday in Atlanta.

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  • Elections

Georgia's Brad Raffensperger: National GOP Figures Didn't Understand Our Laws

Georgia's secretary of state told NPR about efforts by national party leaders to lean on him over ballots. He has defended his office and the state's practices amid scrutiny and criticism.

November 17, 2020
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By:
  • Alana Wise
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about how social media companies handled election misinformation.

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  • Technology

Facebook And Twitter Defend Election Policies To Skeptical Senators

The Senate Judiciary Committee grilled Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter's Jack Dorsey over how they handle false and misleading claims about the election, including from President Donald Trump.

November 17, 2020
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
The White House seen at dusk on Monday.

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  • Politics

Veteran Democratic Aide With Ties To Congressional Black Caucus In Mix For OMB Chief

John Jones previously served as chief of staff to Rep. Emanuel Cleaver. "He's a well-regarded person in Democratic circles," one aide told NPR.

November 17, 2020
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
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