Election recounts
Presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso, representing the Creating Opportunities party or CREO, flashes a thumbs up after attending an event with rival Yaku Perez, of the Pachakutik political party, in which both are asking for a ballot recount of Sunday's election, in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. It remains undecided which of the two has the votes to advance to the run-off race in April to face frontrunner Andres Arauz. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Questions abound as Ecuador heads to presidential runoff

By Gonzalo Solano And Regina Garcia Cano Feb. 17, 2021 12:01 AM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2018, file photo, Republican Congresswoman Claudia Tenney signals she successfully cast her ballot after voting at St. George's Church in New Hartford, N.Y. Tenney appeared on the verge of recapturing her old seat in Congress as election officials wrapped up counting ballots Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, in the nation's last undecided U.S. House race. (AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth, File)
Republican Tenney leads in last undecided US House race

By Marina Villeneuve Feb. 01, 2021 02:40 PM EST

Editorial Roundup: New York

By The Associated Press Jan. 06, 2021 05:11 PM EST
Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from New York’s newspapers: Trump Still Says He Won. What Happens Next? ...

Georgia Democratic senate candidate Raphael Warnock talks to reporters following a campaign rally in Augusta, Ga., Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. Democrats Jon Ossoff and Warnock are challenging incumbent Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in a runoff election on Jan. 5. (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP)
The Latest: Ossoff-Perdue Senate race is too early to call

By The Associated Press Jan. 05, 2021 07:04 AM EST

Editorial Roundup: Georgia

By The Associated Press Dec. 16, 2020 01:42 PM EST
Recent editorials from Georgia newspapers: ___ Dec. 16 The Brunswick News on Pfizer's COVID-19...

FILE - In this May 15, 2019, file photo, Senior Associate Justice Paul Newby presides at a special session of the Supreme Court of North Carolina at New Bern City Hall in New Bern, N.C. Republican Paul Newby’s narrow lead over Democratic incumbent Cheri Beasley changed little overall as a statewide machine recount of North Carolina’s very close race for Supreme Court chief justice was finally completed, late Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. (Gray Whitley/Sun Journal via AP, File)
Beasley concedes defeat in N. Carolina chief justice race

By Gary D. Robertson Dec. 12, 2020 12:47 PM EST

FILE - President Donald Trump, left, remains on stage as then-Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, right, walks away Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. President Trump's extraordinary effort to overturn Joe Biden's win in Wisconsin returns to the courtroom on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 with hearings in federal and state lawsuits seeking to invalidate hundreds of thousands of ballots and give the GOP-controlled Legislature the power to name Trump the winner. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, file)
Trump loses Wisconsin lawsuit in latest legal defeat

By Scott Bauer Dec. 11, 2020 11:58 AM EST

Board of Elections Assistant Director Travis Doss waits for a machine to finish counting absentee ballots during the Georgia presidential election recount at a Richmond County elections facility in south Augusta, Ga., Monday morning, Nov. 30, 2020. (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP)
Georgia Senate GOP push for end to no-excuse absentee voting

By Ben Nadler Dec. 08, 2020 06:09 PM EST

A election worker requests help while recounting ballots at the presidential election recount at the Wisconsin Center Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020, in Milwaukee. Election officials in Wisconsin’s largest county accused observers for President Donald Trump on Saturday of seeking to obstruct a recount of the presidential results, in some instances by objecting to every ballot tabulators pulled to count. (Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)
In Wisconsin recount, Trump challenges pile up, slow tally

By Michael Tarm Nov. 22, 2020 03:23 PM EST

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., speaks from behind a face mask during an interview Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
Sen. Alexander: Trump admin should aid in Biden transition

By Jonathan Mattise Nov. 20, 2020 11:23 AM EST

A recount observer watches ballots during a Milwaukee hand recount of Presidential votes at the Wisconsin Center, Friday, Nov. 20, 2020 in Milwaukee, Wis. The recount of the presidential election in Wisconsin’s two most heavily Democratic counties began Friday with President Donald Trump’s campaign seeking to discard tens of thousands of absentee ballots that it alleged should not have been counted. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Trump objects to counting thousands of Wisconsin ballots

By Scott Bauer Nov. 19, 2020 11:48 PM EST

Election officials from around Dane County bring ballots in, Thursday, Nov., 19, 2020 to the Monona Terrace in Madison, Wis. for the recount that begins Friday. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)
In Wisconsin, long shot recount may just be prelude to court

By Michael Tarm And Scott Bauer Nov. 19, 2020 07:01 PM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2020 file photo, workers count Milwaukee County ballots on Election Day at Central Count in Milwaukee. President Donald Trump's campaign has paid $3 million for a recount of two heavily Democratic Wisconsin counties, saying Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, that they were the site of the "worst irregularities" although no evidence of wrongdoing has been presented and state elections officials have said there was none. (AP Photo/Morry Gash File)
Trump pursues recount of 2 liberal Wisconsin counties

By Scott Bauer Nov. 18, 2020 12:07 PM EST

Cobb County Election officials handle ballots during an audit, Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, in Marietta, Ga. A hand tally of the nearly 5 million votes cast in the presidential race in Georgia has entered its fourth day Monday. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Georgia official says Graham asked him about tossing ballots

By Kate Brumback Nov. 16, 2020 11:13 PM EST

Wisconsin presidential recount would cost Trump $7.9 million

By Scott Bauer Nov. 16, 2020 04:00 PM EST
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump will have to pay $7.9 million if he wants a statewide recount of unofficial results in Wisconsin showing him losing...

Walker County election officials Joy Chrnalogar and Krista Richardson raise a sign to indicate a ballot in need of review during the first day of recounts for the 2020 election at the Walker County Civic Center on Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, in Rock Spring, Ga. (Troy Stolt/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP)
Masked workers start presidential hand tally in Georgia

By Kate Brumback Nov. 13, 2020 12:30 AM EST

Wisconsin elections head says still no evidence of fraud

By Scott Bauer Nov. 12, 2020 03:52 PM EST
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — There remained no evidence of any wrongdoing, fraud or irregularity in Wisconsin's presidential election on Thursday, as counties worked...

Landscapers work on replacing the lawn of the White House, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
GOP backs Trump as he fights election results, transition

By Jonathan Lemire And Zeke Miller Nov. 10, 2020 12:12 AM EST

FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2020, file photoSecretary of Defense Mark Esper speaks before a meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, at the Pentagon in Washington. President Donald Trump has fired Esper. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Refusing to concede, Trump blocks cooperation on transition

By Jonathan Lemire And Zeke Miller Nov. 09, 2020 07:03 PM EST

People celebrate Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, in Philadelphia, after Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become 46th president of the United States. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
2020 Latest: Trump, GOP sue in Arizona over ballot handling

Nov. 07, 2020 12:14 PM EST