ELECTION DAY

Cook County officials say they are facing a amid ‘critical shortage.'

In every Texas legislative session, dozens of bills are submitted that try to make it easier for public officials to hide their activities from voters and their constituents — the very people who hire them on Election Day.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson reacts to released footage of the Capitol breach on January 6 and calls out lawmakers for lying about the incident on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

Lightfoot seeking second term. A runoff will take place April 4 if no one gets over 50 percent of Tuesday's vote.

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Harris County employees may soon be paid extra to work elections.

Arizona's Maricopa County faced criticism as it took days to count its votes in 2022. The county's Republican recorder has a proposal to try to fix the problems he sees.

Republicans are seeking fresh elections in nearly two dozen contests, alleging Election Day woes cost them thousands of votes, but a surge in Democratic registration and long-term demographic trends provide simpler explanations for GOP losses.

Democratic County Judge Lina Hidalgo beat Republican Alexandra del Moral Mealer by more than 18,000 votes. An assessment of Election Day problems at polling sites “has not yet revealed” whether any voters were turned away.

Former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake is filed two appeals on Wednesday, challenging a judge's decision on widespread election misconduct.

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Something was proved without a shadow of doubt in Kari Lake's trial, all right. And it should be followed up with sanctions.

My guess - after watching Monday's hearing on a motion to dismiss Kari Lake's lawsuit - is that Lake may as well reach for her matches.

After disappointing results in this year's elections, Republicans are reevaluating their antipathy to mail voting.

After a series of issues in Democratic-leaning Harris County on Election Day, Republican state leaders in Texas have suggested criminal charges may be warranted.

After a series of issues in Democratic-leaning Harris County on Election Day, Republican state leaders in Texas have suggested criminal charges may be warranted.

But former President Donald Trump has disparaged early voting and voting by mail.

How Warnock did it, plus what it adds to our understanding of the 2022 election (and of Trump).

This year, Brad Raffensperger won re-election by the largest margin of victory in any of Georgia's midterm races.

Nonprofit organizations in Georgia are digging deep to ramp up their operations again after Election Day to inform voters about the closely watched runoff race for one of the state's Senate seats.

The former president will campaign with Warnock on the eve of the final day of early voting.

Republican Adam Hinojosa filed a petition for a recount in the three Rio Grande Valley counties that lifted his challenger Democrat Morgan LaMantia to victory on Election Day for Texas Senate District 27.

Georgia voters have cast more than 1 million ballots ahead of the Dec. 6 U.S. Senate runoff between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker.

Democrat Rafael Warnock is facing a U.S. Senate runoff against Republican Herschel Walker in Georgia.

Barack Obama is urging Georgia Democrats to keep pushing voting turnout for Sen. Raphael Warnock.

O'Rourke returned FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's donation a week before the went bankrupt.

A report issued Sunday to the Arizona attorney general’s office blames Republicans for stoking doubts about a secure alternative available to voters.

The claim comes as Lake has refused to concede in the state’s gubernatorial race despite her opponent Katie Hobbs’ win earlier this month.

Fears of aggressive poll watchers sowing chaos at polling stations or conservative groups trying to intimidate votes didn't materialize on Election Day as many election officials and voting rights experts had feared.

Republican groups have filed an appeal with Georgia's highest court in an attempt to prohibit early voting this Saturday in the U.S. Senate runoff election between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker.

It’s official: Council candidates for three city districts are headed to a runoff election Dec. 13.

On Monday's show: The Harris County District Attorney's Office outlines how a criminal investigation into alleged irregularities on Election Day will be handled and responds to criticism about supposed political motivations for it.

Arizona Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Wright sent a letter Saturday to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office demanding answers to "myriad" Election Day issues.

When he stepped inside a Phoenix polling place on the morning of Election Day on the way to work, Kevin Bembry was told that the tabulation machines were not functioning properly and he might want to vote somewhere else. “I’ve never had that happen before,” Bembry, 57, a security officer, said in a video later posted online. His testimony was one of many circulated on social media by activist groups, right-wing media outlets and Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for governor, whose campaign po

The state’s biggest county has no central system for tracking problems.

The board overseeing a southeastern Arizona county whose Republican leaders had hoped to recount all Election Day ballots on Friday delayed certifying the results of last week's vote after hearing from a trio of conspiracy theorists who alleged that counting machines were not certified. The three men, or some combination of them, have filed at least four cases raising similar claims before the Arizona Supreme Court since 2021 seeking to have the state's 2020 election results thrown out.

Conservative Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., leads her Democratic challenger Adam Frisch by just 551 votes, within the margin for an automatic recount.

The pilgrimage to Trump’s club shows how the failed Republican candidate for governor is seeking to maintain her profile in the former president’s orbit.

Lengthy vote counts in states such as Arizona or California can frustrate candidates and their supporters, but they don't indicate anything is wrong with the voting or the tallying of ballots.

On Thursday's show: Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced she is launching an investigation into alleged irregularities at polling places on Election Day. And we discuss what's being done to address antisemitism in Houston.

The two Republicans who control the elected board in a rural Arizona county have sued their own election director to force her to conduct a greatly expanded hand-count of ballots cast in the Nov. 8 election.

The two Republicans who control the elected board in a rural Arizona county have sued their own elections director to force her to conduct a greatly expanded hand count of ballots cast in the Nov. 8 election, a standoff that could affect certification of the results. The county's attorney warned the private lawyers representing the two GOP board members that taking ballots without authorization could subject their clients to felony charges. At a raucous board meeting Tuesday, several members of the public berated the two Republicans on the three-member board for pursuing the hand count.

Under Arizona law, an election recount will automatically trigger if the margin of victory is less than 0.5 percent of the vote. Hobbs leads Lake by just 0.78 percent.

Protesters gathered outside of Harris County Commissioners Court Tuesday to demand answers about the 2022 election.

As the nation awaits the results of the ongoing ballot counting in California, a deep look into the state's election processes provides insight into the delay in results.

Vote counting had gone on since last Tuesday's election as officials continued to tally massive amounts of late-arriving ballots.

The six-term Congressman currently serving Arizona's 6th district has won election to Arizona's 1st House seat in a key win for Republicans.

The Associated Press called the Arizona governor’s race for Democrat Katie Hobbs on Monday after the latest round of vote releases gave her a lead that the AP determined she would not relinquish.

The subdued mood marks a reversal from just days earlier, when the Republican gubernatorial nominee in Arizona was readying a transition team.

The governor is asking the Texas Rangers, Texas Secretary of State and Texas Attorney General to look into Election Day problems such as delayed openings of polling locations and shortages of ballot paper.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called for an investigation into Election Day problems in Harris County, where voting hours had to be extended last Tuesday.

The Supreme Court has again declined to hear a lawsuit involving a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, the gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns.

There was no violence in the midterm elections last week, and many election deniers lost and quietly conceded.

The post-election narrative was instead focused on each party's electoral fate: Republicans were disappointed that sweeping victories didn't materialize, while relieved Democrats braced for the possibility of a slim House GOP majority. At least for now, the serious threats that loomed over democracy heading into Election Day — domestic extremist violence, voter intimidation and Republican refusal to respect election outcomes — did not materialize in any pervasive way. “It was a good day, I think, for democracy,” President Joe Biden said, even as he acknowledged his party might lose one chamber of Congress.

Data analysis by The Washington Post undercuts claims pushed by Kari Lake and former President Donald Trump, among others.

Republicans despair as Democrats retain control of the Senate despite the polarized political climate.

Key groups of voters like pressured parents held sway on Election Day,

Republicans' wait for a majority in the U.S. House dragged into another day Tuesday.

Dan Bongino shares how things need to get worse before voters elect Republicans because "this bad stuff just ain't bad enough" to vote out Democrats on "Unfiltered."

The Associated Press has not yet called the governor's race in Arizona between Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and Republican former TV broadcaster Kari Lake.

"This is very, very common,” a Maricopa County leader said. “I know people are very anxious to get the results but there is nothing out of the ordinary here.”

The election was still too close to call Friday, with 31,000 votes separating Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs from GOP opponent Kari Lake.

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Blake Masters wasn’t posting the numbers of votes he needed in Election Day ballots as they were counted and released days later by officials in Arizona’s biggest county.

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The board of supervisors in a southern Arizona county will meet next week to consider counting nearly all the ballots cast in-person on Election Day.

The board of supervisors in a southern Arizona county will meet next week to consider counting nearly all the ballots cast in-person on Election Day, despite an earlier court order limiting the hand-count driven by unfounded distrust in machines that tabulate votes. The actual count may start before Tuesday's planned meeting of the Cochise County board, and the local prosecutor is warning starting it at any time may lead to criminal charges. The moves come just days after a judge ruled that state law bars expanding the normal small hand-count audit of early ballots.

Michigan saw record turnout for a midterm election this week, with control of the governor’s office and referendums on abortion and voting rights in the balance. Elections officials, government watchdog groups and other experts, however, said the election process was carried out according to state law. CLAIM: City officials in Ann Arbor were registering new voters and allowing them to vote long after the polls closed on Election Day.

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week.

Polls closed three days ago in Arizona, but counting votes for the 2022 midterm elections continued into the weekend.

The mayor of a small Louisiana town who was running for re-election was killed in a car crash on Election Day, authorities said.

Members of the Harris County Republican Party held a news conference on Thursday to discuss the problems that occurred with the Harris County Elections Administrator on Election Day.

Two days after the midterm elections, misinformation about the results remains focused on Arizona and Pennsylvania.

In Texas, 45.7% of the 17.7 million registered voters cast ballots in the 2022 midterm election. That’s 7.3 percentage points lower than the state’s total turnout in 2018 but higher than in every other midterm election in the last 20 years.

Texas Tribune photographers spread out all over the state to document a momentous midterm election.

Democrats are holding on to narrow leads in key Arizona contests, but the races for U.S. Senate and governor are still too early to call.

A day after the midterm elections, misinformation about the results is zeroing in on the states of Arizona and Pennsylvania.

No digital intrusions are known to have affected the counting of the midterm vote.

Hundreds of thousands of votes are still being tallied in Arizona, where contested races including Senate and gubernatorial contests remained undeclared.

Neither party has reached the necessary threshold to win control in the House or Senate as of early Friday.

Nearly 24 hours after polls closed, Harris County Elections staff was still working on tabulating results on Wednesday evening.

We’re close to record highs today

The first Harris County election results are expected to be released at 8:00 p.m.

KPRC 2 teamed up with the League of Women Voters to answer questions on Election Day, discussing everything you needed to know before heading to the polls.

Election Day is finally here, and Houstonians and residents in surrounding counties are headed to the polls Tuesday.

In case you’ve been living under a rock these last few weeks, today is election day!

Multiple issues have been reported at polling locations in Harris County this Election Day, according to Harris County Elections.

Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Election Day. Here’s what’s on the ballot, what you’ll need to vote, how to get help and how to find election results.

Voters in the U.S. who go on Twitter, TikTok, Facebook or other platforms to learn about Tuesday’s pivotal midterm elections are likely to encounter rumors, hearsay and misinformation.

If you’re tuning in now to Election Day in the U.S., voting in the midterm election ends when polls close on Tuesday.

If you’re keeping a close eye on the results Tuesday night, you should follow one overarching rule: Don’t jump to conclusions.

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Election Day is Nov. 8, and beyond celebrating democracy by exercising your responsibility to vote, you can also get some sweet, sweet freebies and specials in the Houston area.

When is early voting over in the midterm elections.

Much of the focus has shifted to the Senate, specifically a few select races that will decide control.

Republican election officials around New York refused to process absentee ballots amid a court challenge earlier this week.

The high turnout seen in 2018 may have been an anomaly rather than the start of a long-term trend.

Why has The Associated Press tallied votes and declared winners in U.S. elections since the middle of the 19th century.

It’s the night of the election and polls have been closed for hours.