Election 2020

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 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 lawsuit from the Texas attorney general demands that the 62 total Electoral College votes in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin be invalidated.

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.

Officials in the states targeted in the suit — Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — derided it as nothing more than an unfounded publicity stunt.

Two big reasons stand out: Republicans lost many of their moderate voters here as the GOP crept rightward, and suburbs have further diversified.

Coordination between independent expenditure groups and campaigns is forbidden. But weak state and federal campaign finance rules and meager oversight create gray areas.

The court without comment Tuesday refused to call into question the certification process in Pennsylvania.

The appeal, filed Friday, is one of at least four pending cases in which Trump or Republicans are trying to throw out certain ballots or trying to upend the entire election.

The Trump campaign and allied Republicans had sought to overturn results in six states. "We don't need courts," Rudy Giuliani told Fox News.