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Pa. Supreme Court rejects Rep. Mike Kelly-led lawsuit challenging election
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s highest court on Saturday night threw out a lower court’s order preventing the state from certifying dozens of contests on its Nov. 3 election ballot in the latest lawsuit filed by Republicans attempting to thwart President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the battleground state. The state Supreme Court,...
26 state House Republicans call for withdrawing certification of presidential electors
Declaring the results of statewide electoral contests in the 2020 general election to be in dispute, a group of House Republican lawmakers have announced their intention to introduce a resolution calling for Gov. Tom Wolf and Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar to withdraw their certification of the Nov. 3 election...
Last-minute assignments, lack of training left Pittsburgh-area poll workers unprepared on Election Day
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Ohio elections chief certifies 2020 general election results
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s elections chief certified results on Friday of a 2020 election that he said was almost flawlessly executed despite the pandemic, raising concern that President Donald Trump’s allegations of widespread fraud could be undercutting voter confidence in the process. Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s certification delivered...
U.S. Circuit Court rejects Trump appeal over Pennsylvania votes
President Donald Trump’s legal team suffered yet another defeat in court Friday as a federal appeals court in Philadelphia roundly rejected its latest effort to challenge the state’s election results. Trump’s lawyers vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court despite the judge’s assessment that the “campaign’s claims have no merit.”...
Trump may be coming to terms with loss he won’t acknowledge
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump still won’t bring himself to concede the election he decisively lost to President-elect Joe Biden. But he’s now acknowledging he will leave the White House if Biden’s win is affirmed by the Electoral College, which is firmly on track to do just that in a...
Ohio elections chief certifies 2020 general election results
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s state elections chief certified the results of the November general election on Friday, awarding the state’s 18 electoral votes to President Donald Trump. Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose said the state produced an extraordinary level of access for voters, setting records with nearly 6 million...
They’re baaack: Trump and allies still refuse election loss 
WASHINGTON — Monday seemed like the end of President Donald Trump’s relentless challenges to the election, after the federal government acknowledged President-elect Joe Biden was the “apparent winner” and Trump cleared the way for cooperation on a transition of power. But his baseless claims have a way of coming back....
Trump doubles down on allegations of election fraud in Pennsylvania as Biden begins transition
President Trump doubled down on unfounded allegations of widespread voter fraud in Pennsylvania in a phone call from the Oval Office, broadcast to Wednesday’s state Senate Republican postmortem hearing on the Nov. 3 election. “This election was rigged and we can’t let that happen for our country and we’ve got...
Commonwealth Court orders pause to further certification of Pa. election results
A Pennsylvania judge on Wednesday ordered a pause to any election certification proceedings still pending in the state as part of a lawsuit brought by a number of Republican candidates and legislators, including Rep. Mike Kelly and candidate Sean Parnell. The judge’s action does not affect the outcome of the...
New York state may speed up, permanently expand vote-by-mail
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York may permanently expand voting by mail — something it tried on a wide scale for the first time this year — while also trying to reform its molasses-slow and opaque process for counting absentee ballots. A proposed constitutional amendment would do away with the rule...
Pa. attorneys urge court to toss petition of Rep. Mike Kelly, Sean Parnell
Attorneys for Pennsylvania election and state government officials filed their response to a lawsuit by U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Butler, and Republican congressional candidate Sean Parnell, calling their request to throw out the results of Pennsylvania’s general election “simply breathtaking.” “While draped in the driest of historical arguments, petitioners’ claim...
Nevada Supreme Court approves Biden win over Trump in state
LAS VEGAS — The Nevada Supreme Court made Joe Biden’s win in the state official on Tuesday, approving the final canvass of the Nov. 3 election. The unanimous action by the seven nonpartisan justices sends to Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak results that will deliver six electoral votes from the Western...
Ziccarelli asks Pa. Supreme Court to reconsider decision to count undated Allegheny County ballots
The Republican challenger in the 45th Senatorial District that includes parts of Allegheny and Westmoreland counties has asked the state Supreme Court to reconsider its Monday order allowing undated mail-in ballots to be counted. Nicole Ziccarelli, of Lower Burrell, filed an emergency application for reargument Tuesday morning. She is running...
Pennsylvania certifies election; Biden wins by 80K votes
President-elect Joe Biden has been certified the winner of Pennsylvania’s Nov. 3 election. Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar and Gov. Tom Wolf signed and certified the election results Tuesday morning, a day after all 67 counties certified their respective results. The certification ends a three-week process and awards the state’s...
U.S. agency ascertains Biden as winner, lets transition begin 
WASHINGTON — The General Services Administration ascertained Monday that President-elect Joe Biden is the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election, clearing the way for the start of the transition from President Donald Trump’s administration and allowing Biden to coordinate with federal agencies on plans for taking over on Jan....
Congressman Mike Kelly, Sean Parnell seek injunction to stop Pa. election certification
The Republican congressman and congressional candidate challenging Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballot system that led to more than 2.6 million such votes being cast in the Nov. 3 election are seeking an emergency injunction to halt the certification of the state’s election results. An initial complaint filed with Commonwealth Court by U.S....
Georgia counties set to start recount requested by Trump 
ATLANTA — After the Trump campaign requested a recount of the presidential ballots in Georgia, county election workers have just over a week to complete the new tally, a top elections official said Monday. The election results certified last week by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger showed Democrat Joe Biden...
Michigan certifies Biden win despite Trump’s GOP overtures 
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan election officials on Monday certified Democrat Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in the state amid President Donald Trump’s brazen attempts to subvert the results of the election. The Board of State Canvassers, which has two Republicans and two Democrats, confirmed the results on a 3-0 vote with...
Pa. Supreme Court says undated mail-in ballots in Nicole Ziccarelli case can be counted
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Monday afternoon ruled that 2,349 undated mail-in ballots in Allegheny County can be counted in the state’s election results — dashing a challenge by 45th senatorial district candidate Nicole Ziccarelli. The court’s 35-page opinion also clears the way for 8,329 mail-in ballots in Philadelphia County that...
Westmoreland judge tosses more than 200 ballots elections board wanted counted
A Westmoreland County judge ruled Monday that 46 provisional ballots be counted after voters provided testimony to the board of elections that they did not vote on machines at their polling places despite signing a poll book. But another 204 ballots must be tossed out because the board didn’t do...
Biden signals shift from Trump with national security picks
WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden is moving to fill out his national security team with a raft of appointments to top positions that signal his intent to repudiate the Trump administration’s “America First” doctrine. The six picks announced on Monday, almost all of them alumni of the Obama administration, represent...
Wisconsin presidential recount in 4th day, with few changes
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin’s partial presidential recount entered its fourth day Monday, with very few changes in vote totals as President Donald Trump’s attorneys appeared to be focused on a legal challenge seeking to toss tens of thousands of ballots, including the one cast by an attorney for the campaign....
Trump appeals rejection of effort to block Pennsylvania vote
HARRISBURG — President Donald Trump is appealing a federal judge’s dismissal of his campaign’s effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania. The president and other plaintiffs filed notice of appeal to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Sunday, a day after the judge issued a scathing...
In Wisconsin recount, Trump challenges pile up, slow tally
MILWAUKEE — Wisconsin recount observer Ardis Cerny stretched her neck as far as she could toward a Plexiglas divider separating her from two vote counters, eagle-eyeing them as they scrutinized ballot papers one by one. When one tabulator told the ardent supporter of President Donald Trump she was leaning too...


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