Elections

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.

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.

“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.

Joe Biden has cleared the 270-electoral-vote mark to formalize his presidential victory with California’s 55 votes.

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.

What could be the main event in Georgia's two U.S. Senate runoffs — early in-person voting — got underway Monday.

Pennsylvania’s 20 electors have cast their votes for Joe Biden. This was expected — though some Republicans still want to circumvent the result.

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.

The gatherings of mostly unmasked Trump loyalists were intended as a show of force just two days before the Electoral College meets to formally elect Biden as president.

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.

Artist Tracey Snelling, who has never been to Philadelphia, specializes in multimedia sculpture.

"Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections," the Court wrote.

106 members of Congress and multiple state attorneys general signed onto the case even as some have predicted it will fail.

The two made the cut after topping Time's shortlist that included Trump, the movement for racial justice, Dr. Anthony Fauci and medical workers on the frontline of COVID-19.

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.