Election fact check: County officials can't refuse to certify election results

Local officials are legally required to certify election results -- but the process has become politicized since Donald Trump challenged the 2020 election results.

Georgia judge rules county election officials must certify election results

A Georgia judge ruled Tuesday that county election officials may not delay or decline to certify election results based on suspicions of fraud. Fulton County Superior Judge Robert McBurney wrote in ...

Politics - The Hill - October 15

Local Officials Cannot Refuse to Certify Election Results, Georgia Judge Rules

The ruling cuts at the heart of a key argument made by right-wing activists since the 2020 election, when Donald Trump sought to disrupt the certification process as part of his bid to subvert the ...

Top stories - The New York Times - October 15

Election fact check: Noncitizens can't vote, and instances are 'vanishingly rare'

Despite Donald Trump spreading allegations of widespread voting by noncitizens, audits of state voter rolls have uncovered very few instances of noncitizen voting.

Local election officials in Georgia must certify results, judge rules

County election boards in Georgia are not allowed to refuse to certify election results, a state judge ruled on Tuesday.

Arizona Republican official who refused to certify 2022 midterm election pleads guilty

Cochise county supervisor Peggy Judd agrees to plead guilty to misdemeanor charge . A Republican county supervisor in rural Arizona who refused to certify the 2022 midterm election has agreed to a ...

World - The Guardian - October 21

Election fact check: Trump, Harris on transgender issues

What we know about the issues and how former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris expect to legislate transgender policies.

Musk's election falsehoods travel hundreds of times further on X than fact-checks from officials

As Elon Musk continues to aggressively share conspiracy theories and misinformation about elections on X, election officials are fighting back.

Fox News offers fact-check of Trump's 2020 election claims

Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner offered a fact-check of former President Trump's false claims that Democrats "stole" the 2020 election from him after the network finished airing his remarks from ...

Politics - The Hill - 6 days ago

Election fact check: Trump, allies push allegations of 'cheating' in Pennsylvania

Election officials in Pennsylvania have pushed back on allegations of voter fraud or misconduct made by former President Trump and his allies.

Crowdsourced Fact Checks on X Can’t Stop Election Misinformation

Elon Musk and many other users on the social platform have spread and reposted numerous falsehoods related to the Nov. 5 vote, even when the content violates X’s guidelines.

Business - Inc. - 4 days ago

Election fact check: Minor voting glitches do not indicate widespread fraud

When Americans vote Tuesday, some may encounter small issues like equipment malfunctions -- but experts stress that minor glitches don't indicate widespread voter fraud.

Will Your Elected Officials in Congress Accept the Results of the Election?

We’ve asked every member of Congress whether they’ll accept the results as called by the Associated Press. Use our tool to see how your representatives answer.

Tech - Wired - 4 days ago

Michigan secretary of state says she expects election results to be certified day after Nov. 5

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) said she expects her state’s election results to be certified the day after the Nov. 5 general election. “In 2020 we had the results of our highest ...

Politics - The Hill - October 20

Report says crowd-sourced fact checks on X fail to address flood of US election misinformation

X’s crowd-sourced fact-checking program, called Community Notes, isn’t addressing the flood of U.S. election misinformation on Elon Musk’s social media platform

Tech - ABC News - 5 days ago

Election fact check: How voting machines work and why they're hard to hack

While election officials use technology for voter registration, tallying and in some cases vote-casting, the system is largely centered around paper ballots.

Arizona counties don't have to do citizenship checks before election, judge rules

Those who sought the checks made their request too close to the election.

Fulton County official appeals ruling requiring election certification

A Fulton County election official who refused to certify the results of the county's spring presidential primary election has appealed a state judge's ruling affirming that Georgia law requires ...

Politics - The Hill - October 24

Sen. Moore Capito: 'I don’t anticipate a scenario' where GOP refuses to certify results

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said she does not anticipate a scenario in which Senate Republicans refuse to certify the election results but stressed she thinks former President Trump will ...

Politics - The Hill - Yesterday

Nevada's top election official expresses optimism in reporting results quicker

Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar (D) is expressing optimism the state could avoid a repeat of 2020, when it took until the weekend for media outlets to project President Biden as the ...

Politics - The Hill - 1 hour ago

Georgia judge rules officials can't delay election certification over fraud concerns

"Election superintendents in Georgia have a mandatory fixed obligation to certify election results," the judge wrote.

Cheney doubts Johnson will carry out 'constitutional obligations' to certify election

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said in a Sunday interview that she doubts House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will carry out “his constitutional obligations” to certify the 2024 election. In ...

Politics - The Hill - October 13

Fact-Checking Harris’s Closing Argument

The vice president has stuck largely to the facts when highlighting the words of her rival, former President Donald J. Trump, but has on occasion omitted context or erred when describing policies ...

Top stories - The New York Times - 5 days ago

Will Trump supporters accept the election result?

Sarah’s in Georgia, where there are already legal challenges over votes

Breaking down the timing of election results

One of the top questions people want to know is when will we know who wins the election. While we don't know for sure, there are some clues. Major Garrett has more.

Arizona county heightens security ahead of Election Day

Authorities in Arizona's Maricopa County are increasing security ahead of the election after a series of violent incidents and threats aimed at election facilities and workers in the politically ...

Politics - NBC News - October 24

Arizona counties work to reassure voters of election transparency

Two counties in Arizona upgraded their election ballot processing facilities in a push for greater transparency. Ed O'Keefe got a look at the state-of-the-art facilities.

Residents of conservative California county brace for tumultuous elections

‘More and more divided’ Shasta is grappling with baseless conspiracy theories of voter fraud and election denialism. US election 2024 live: latest polls, results and updates Residents of one ...

World - The Guardian - 6 hours ago

Trump repeated election lies in his interview with Joe Rogan. Here are the facts

Donald Trump used a lengthy interview with podcaster Joe Rogan to dig in on his false claims about voting, election fraud and his loss in the 2020 presidential election

With razor thin margins in the election, will Americans still refuse to vote?

The 2024 presidential election is expected to be close, with a recent report describing the margins as "razor thin" in key swing states, and four underutilized techniques are proposed to increase ...

Politics - The Hill - 3 days ago

Georgia judge rules certification of election results is 'mandatory'

With just weeks to go until the presidential election, a Georgia judge has ruled that certification of election results by county officials in the state is "mandatory."

When will we know the results of the presidential election?

Voters may not have to wait quite as long after Election Day as four years ago to know who the next president will be. The public needed to wait almost five days in 2020 before most major news ...

Politics - The Hill - October 28

Behind the plans to challenge 2024 election results

A New York Times investigation reportedly found Republicans in four battleground states that may be positioned to challenge and overturn unfavorable election outcomes. Jim Rutenberg, a writer at ...

Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against contested election results

Mood among protesters is one of deflation as some say Georgian Dream has already won. Thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets in the capital, Tbilisi, to rally against the results of a ...

World - The Guardian - October 28

Biden calls for investigations into country of Georgia's election results

President Biden on Tuesday called for the government in the country of Georgia to investigate all election irregularities, holding back recognition of the claimed victory by the ruling party ...

Politics - The Hill - 6 days ago

Harris: Trump 'capable of anything' on interfering with election results

She spoke in an an exclusive interview with ABC's Mary Bruce.

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