
Poll: Despite record turnout, 80 million Americans didn’t vote. Here’s why
More Americans voted in 2020 than in any other presidential election in 120 years. About 67% of eligible voters cast ballots this year, but that still means a third did not.
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Voters could request a mail ballot just seven days before the Nov. 3 election, making it difficult for county offices to send them out and receive them back by the deadline.
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‘Democracy prevailed’: Biden aims to unify divided nation
“If anyone didn’t know it before, we know it now. What beats deep in the hearts of the American people is this: Democracy,” Biden said.
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Delaware electors beam with pride as they cast votes for Joe Biden
Even though the ballots signed Monday don’t play a deciding role in the outcome of the election, they are a point of pride for the three electors and voters in the state.
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Early in-person voting begins in Georgia Senate runoffs
What could be the main event in Georgia's two U.S. Senate runoffs — early in-person voting — got underway Monday.
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Pennsylvania casts 20 electoral college votes for Biden
Pennsylvania’s 20 electors have cast their votes for Joe Biden. This was expected — though some Republicans still want to circumvent the result.
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Electors across the country vote for president: What you need to know
Typically, the Electoral College vote is broadly overlooked. But because of President Trump's efforts to overturn the election, every step is being closely watched.
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Electoral College vote a big step to move past election
The electors' ballots are sent to Congress, where they are to be read into the official record by Vice President Mike Pence during a joint session on Jan. 6.
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A diorama of Four Seasons Total Landscaping will sell for $15,000 in Berlin
Artist Tracey Snelling, who has never been to Philadelphia, specializes in multimedia sculpture.
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Supreme Court shuts door on Trump election prospects
"Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections," the Court wrote.
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Hundreds of GOP members sign onto Texas-led election lawsuit
106 members of Congress and multiple state attorneys general signed onto the case even as some have predicted it will fail.
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Pennsylvania blasts Texas’ bid to overturn Biden’s election
The lawsuit from the Texas attorney general demands that the 62 total Electoral College votes in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin be invalidated.
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The 2020 election cost Pa. counties millions in OT, was most expensive ever, officials say
The pandemic and a new vote-by-mail system overwhelmed already overworked election offices, but some tapped federal pandemic stimulus money to help cover costs.
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Trump asks Supreme Court to let him join widely scorned Texas election lawsuit
Officials in the states targeted in the suit — Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — derided it as nothing more than an unfounded publicity stunt.
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Tracing Montco’s decades-long shift from GOP stronghold to boon for Biden
Two big reasons stand out: Republicans lost many of their moderate voters here as the GOP crept rightward, and suburbs have further diversified.
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