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Republican challenger Sean Parnell’s lead over U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb narrows
Republican challenger Sean Parnell led U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb late Wednesday afternoon in the high-profile 17th Congressional District race, but Lamb narrowed the lead throughout the day, according to unofficial and incomplete returns. As of 4 p.m., Parnell had collected 53.2% of the votes counted compared to Lamb’s 46.8%, a...
GOP’s Tommy Tuberville defeats U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, flips Alabama seat
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former college football coach Tommy Tuberville has recaptured a U.S. Senate seat for Republicans by defeating Sen. Doug Jones in Alabama. Jones had widely been considered the Senate’s most endangered Democrat. Republicans had made recapturing the once reliably conservative seat a priority in 2020. Tuberville, who has...
Incumbent state Sen. Joe Pittman overwhelms Democratic challenger Tony DeLoreto
State Sen. Joe Pittman, R-Indiana, collected three times as many votes as his Democratic challenger in his bid for reelection, according to unofficial returns Wednesday. To make matters worse for challenger Tony DeLoreto, the Indiana restaurateur was recently diagnosed with covid-19 and could not go to the polls or conduct...
Democrats losing paths to Senate control as GOP hangs on 
WASHINGTON — Hopes fading for Senate control, Democrats had a disappointing election night as Republicans swatted down an onslaught of challengers and fought to retain their fragile majority. Several races remained undecided into Wednesday and at least one headed to a runoff in January. It was a jarring outcome for...
Pennsylvania vote goes smoothly, but tallying may take time 
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania voters turned out in large numbers Tuesday for an election that produced few of the glitches some had feared, leaving in their wake a mountain of ballots that will have to be counted in the coming days amid intense national scrutiny. The battleground state’s decision to greatly...
Georgia Republican who supports QAnon wins U.S. House seat
ATLANTA — Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who expressed racist views and support for QAnon conspiracy theories in a series of online videos, has won a U.S. House seat representing northwest Georgia. Her candidacy was bolstered by President Donald Trump, who has called her a “future Republican Star.” Greene was heavily...
Pennsylvania emerges as online misinformation hotspot on election day
A single voting machine jammed for just minutes Tuesday morning at a precinct in Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton — but misleading posts on Facebook and Twitter claimed multiple machines there were down for hours. Pennsylvania emerged as a hotspot for online misinformation on Election Day. Facebook and Twitter scrambled...
News outlets preach caution as election results arrive
Media outlets preached patience as the first Election Day results in the hard-fought campaign between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden came in, even as it ran counter to their instincts. A stressed populace and flood of early voting had many observers worried about a chaotic counting process, leading...
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wins reelection, but control of Senate at stake
WASHINGTON — Republicans fought to keep control of the Senate on Tuesday in a razor-close contest against a surge of Democrats challenging President Donald Trump’s allies across a vast political map. Polls started closing in key states where some of the nation’s most well-known senators were on the ballot. In...
2020 election results from across Western Pennsylvania
All that’s left is the counting. And it could take a little while. Polls in Pennsylvania closed at 8 p.m. on what was a mostly orderly election day. Voters were greeted by long lines well before the polls opened at 7 a.m., and there reportedly was steady turnout across Western...
Election updates: After win in Pa., Biden captures Nevada as well 
This is the latest on the presidential election between incumbent Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden: 12:13 p.m. Biden has won Nevada, adding to his Electoral College victory over Trump. Biden clinched Nevada on Saturday afternoon, shortly after he won the presidency by taking Pennsylvania. Trump had made a strong...
George Floyd’s brother rallies voters on Election Day in New York
NEW YORK — The murmurs spread quickly among the poll workers late Tuesday morning at a Brooklyn neighborhood station: George Floyd’s brother was present. A few came up to Terrence Floyd, whose brother George died in the custody of Minneapolis police, sparking protests for racial justice across the nation. “Keep...
Future voting rights, marijuana laws at stake in states
The growing push to legalize marijuana was being put to another test Tuesday in both left- and right-leaning states as voters also decided a variety of state ballot measures affecting their own voting rights in future elections. A total of 120 proposed state laws and constitutional amendments were on the...
‘Vote and get home,’ anxious voters say on Election Day
She carefully planned a five-hour drive to the polling place in her Tennessee hometown to vote on Election Day. She considered the traffic, the weather, the surging coronavirus pandemic and — something she never imagined having to contemplate — the possibility of civil unrest in the aftermath of an American...
FBI investigates robocalls warning voters to ‘stay home’
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan — Voters across the U.S. received anonymous robocalls in the days and weeks before Election Day urging them to “stay safe and stay home” — an ominous warning that election experts said could be an effort to scare voters into sitting out the election. The FBI is...
Paper ballots, scanners surprise some voters in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties
Mario Taliani of Arnold was surprised when he went to vote Tuesday — not by anything on the ballot, but by the ballot itself. Taliani went into his polling location at Roy A. Hunt Elementary School expecting to vote on an electronic machine. He didn’t know they had been replaced...
Explainer: What is the Electoral College and when do votes need to be in?
Election Day is only one point in the process of the Electoral College, which decides who wins a U.S. presidential race. According to Britannica.com: “American voters go to the polls … but the ballots that they cast do not directly elect the president. Instead, the will of the voters is...
What to watch tonight: States to eye closely on election tonight
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden each have a path to win the White House. The former vice president is competitive in all the battleground states Trump carried in 2016, and has put a handful of traditional Republican states, including Georgia and Arizona, in play. Trump...
Trump, Biden hand their fate to voters, with robust turnout
WASHINGTON — Voters flocked to the polls on Tuesday despite the threat of the coronavirus and long lines to choose between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, in an election that will influence how the U.S. confronts everything from the pandemic to race relations for years to...
Tradition: 2 New Hampshire towns cast votes after midnight
DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. — Two tiny New Hampshire communities that vote for president just after the stroke of midnight on Election Day have cast their ballots, with one of them marking 60 years since the tradition began. The results in Dixville Notch, near the Canadian border, were a sweep for...
Huge voter turnout expected despite virus, political rancor
The scourge of a global pandemic produced an election season like no other in the U.S., persuading record numbers of Americans to cast their ballots early, forcing states to make changes to long-established election procedures and leading to hundreds of lawsuits over how votes would be cast and which ballots...
Election Day Live: Western Pa. voters head to the polls
The presidential candidates are done campaigning. Local candidates made their pitches. Now it’s the voters’ turn to speak. Today is Election Day and TribLIVE reporters reported throughout the day from polling places around Western Pennsylvania, from Greensburg and Tarentum to Pittsburgh and the North Hills, and everywhere in between. 11:55...
Election Day 2020 nuts and bolts: What you need to know 
A record number of Pennsylvanians are expected to vote in today’s General Election — with a record number having already cast ballots early. Here are a few reminders about the election, including that results from the Keystone State and other parts of the country likely will not be known for...
Safety measures in place at Westmoreland polls
Voters who head out to the polls to cast in-person ballots will be safe, officials said Monday. All 307 voting precincts will be open Tuesday and safety measures were installed as the number of coronavirus cases continues to mount in Pennsylvania and Westmoreland County. Polls will be open from 7...
Ohio’s Republican Attorney General tweets inaccurate mail-in voting deadline
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s attorney general tweeted erroneously Monday that voters had until Tuesday to mail their absentee ballots, when Monday was actually the last day to vote by mail. Republican Attorney General Dave Yost’s mistake prompted rebukes from Democrats and others and a correction of the record by the...


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