- Pinkerton: Georgia and the Arts of War and Politics
The Power Game Is a Numbers Game The final battle of the 2020 elections—the two senatorial runoff elections in Georgia—comes to a close on January 5. And yet as we shall see, the Democrats’ patient preparations for the battle have been going on for years. An indication of the work that’s been done came on […]
- Report: Dead People Voted in Close Upstate New York Congressional Race
Dead people allegedly voted in a too-close-to-call upstate New York congressional race, according to a county attorney involved with the case. Rep. Anthony Brindisi (D-NY) is just 12 to 13 votes ahead of Republican challenger Claudia Tenney in the most recent count of votes for New York’s 22nd congressional seat. In question, though, are hundreds of […]
- PA’s head of elections: ‘We’re coming in the home stretch here’
November 5, 2020 Listen to “Rep. Andy Biggs: Don’t be surprised if this election goes to the SCOTUS” on Spreaker. Pennsylvania’s chief election official has suggested that the “overwhelming majority of ballots” have already been counted but that more need to be tallied in order to get a clearer sense of who the winner in […]
- Election Day 2020: Polling sites in Manhattan not very crowded
November 3, 2020 In the lead-up to Tuesday, Election Day, there were numerous reports of absurdly long lines at polling stations across New York City. I had the opportunity today to explore Manhattan and visit some of its polling sites. What I found was that, during the daytime, there were zero people waiting in line […]
- Election Results: When will Wisconsin’s ballots be counted by?
October 23, 2020 Shutterstock At this point, it is common knowledge that the full results of the 2020 presidential election will not be known on Election Night. The pandemic has pushed voters to overload state election systems as well as the United States Postal Service with tens of millions of postal ballot (both “mail-in” and […]
- More than 2 Million Votes Already Cast for Georgia Runoffs
Nearly 2.1 million Georgians have cast their votes through early in-person voting or absentee voting for the Georgia Senate runoff election taking place January 5, according to data provided by the state on Thursday. The number represents more than a quarter of the state’s 7.7 million registered voters, and, as measured by the Georgia Votes […]
- Wayne County, Michigan, Refuses to Certify Election Results
Officials in Wayne County, Michigan, which contains the city of Detroit, refused to certify the results of the Nov. 3 election after local representatives on the Board of Canvassers deadlocked in a 2-2 vote, sending the votes to state authorities for canvassing. 🚨🚨BREAKING: This evening, the county board of canvassers in Wayne County, MI refused […]
- Pollak: Seven Kinds of Election Interference, from Fraud to Censorship
The 2020 presidential election is still undecided, as of this writing, and accusations about “fraud” are flying. The frustrating thing about these claims is that there is usually no way to verify them — partly because the people accused of fraud are often the same people who would have to investigate it. Democrats claimed “Russian […]
- Election Day 2020: What are we seeing from make or break states?
November 3, 2020 Today is Election Day and this presidential election has set itself up to be one like no other. One thing, however, that this election has in common with elections past is that the swing states still play a crucial role—for different reasons though. Let’s go over what will make this election challenging […]
- Election Results: When will Michigan’s ballots be counted by?
October 22, 2020 Shutterstock The victor of the 2020 presidential election won’t be known on Election Night. Postal ballots (both “mail-in” and “absentee”) and in-person votes, early voting mean that many states will have a backlog of uncounted ballots on Election Day, placing additional strain on state election systems that are already under unprecedented stress. […]
- What Happened in Atlanta on Election Night
On the night of Nov. 3, tens of thousands of absentee ballots for Fulton County, Georgia, were counted at the State Farm Arena’s vote-tabulation center in Atlanta. In recent days, the fog of incomplete and conflicting information provided by interested parties has begun to clear. It now appears that a state election monitor was absent […]
- Philly Mayor: Trump ‘needs to… put his big boy pants on and… acknowledge the fact that he lost’
November 6, 2020 The mayor of Philadelphia had some choice words for President Donald Trump on Friday, calling for the president to concede the election to former Vice President Joe Biden. The race in Pennsylvania, a state Trump must win in order to gain a second term, is still too close to call with about […]
- Trump: ‘If You Count The Legal Votes, I Easily Win The Election!’
November 5, 2020 President Donald Trump‘s press secretary Thursday afternoon tweeted out a statement from him in which he appears to discredit ballots that are still being counted and still arriving at election clerk offices, claiming that they are illegal and don’t help him win if they are counted. The all-caps statement in the tweet […]
- 2020 Election: When will we find out election results in North Carolina?
October 27, 2020 Election Day is one week away and it could not come any sooner. The election itself, however, is far from over. More likely than not, we will not know the victor on Election Night. This is because there is an unprecedented amount of absentee and mail-in ballots being sent this year and, […]
- Election Results: When will Arizona’s ballots be counted by?
October 21, 2020 The unprecedented surge in absentee and mail-in ballots this election means that we won’t learn the full results likely for weeks after Election Day. But when will we know the full results by? A better question, rather, is when will each of the swing states’ full results be known by. On Tuesday, […]
- New York County Finds Uncounted Votes for Congressional Race
Attorney Alan Gordon from Chenango County, New York, told a state Supreme Court Justice on Tuesday that the county found 55 uncounted ballots for the 22nd Congressional District, adding a variable to an extremely close race. In the district, Republican candidate Claudia Tenney led by 12 votes over Democrat incumbent Anthony Brindisi. The newly found votes […]
- 2020 ELECTION: What voters should know about a recount in Georgia
November 6, 2020 After days of watching the presidential vote totals come out of the nail-biter race in Georgia, the state’s top elections official announced that there will be a recount because of the razor-thin margin. Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger said at a Friday morning press conference that the race “remains too close to […]
- Trump campaign declares victory in PA, despite ballots still being counted
November 4, 2020 The Trump campaign has declared victory in Pennsylvania while the swing state continues to count millions of ballots. This comes as the incumbent President Donald Trump’s team has filed lawsuits in this state, Michigan, and Wisconsin to halt the counting of ballots. No independent authorities have declared a victor in Pennsylvania yet. […]
- Election Results: When will Minnesota’s ballots be counted by?
October 26, 2020 So far, this series of explainers has visited the swing states of Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—looking at when each might release their election results. Now let’s visit the Land of 10,000 Lakes: Minnesota. For an explanation about the difference between mail-in and absentee ballots, check out this piece here by Ben […]
- Election Results: When will Pennsylvania’s ballots be counted by?
October 20, 2020 More likely than not, we will not know the winner of the 2020 presidential election on Election Night, and likely not for weeks after that. This is because of the unprecedented amount of mail-in and absentee ballots that have been requested this election cycle due to voters concerned about going to a […]
