For most of the country, predictions that Election Day would morph into election week or election month did not come to pass. Then there’s California, where millions of ballots remain uncounted.

The earliest results in most states are reported by local voting precincts soon after polls close there. Every state also has different rules for how officials process and count ballots ...

The 2025 election has produced some extremely close seat results. Here’s what happens when there’s just a handful of votes in ...

For starters, all of the votes – those cast early and those cast on Election Day – count equally. This is also a much different year from 2020. In that pandemic year, far more Americans voted ...

One of their solutions is to replace the tabulators that count every vote with people who will do that by hand. Controversies over the issue have flared periodically in pockets of the country ...

But she also worries that in today’s polarized climate, election officials doing their due diligence to properly count the vote will be misinterpreted as opportunities for fraud. “Everybody ...

It is January 6 again and that means federal lawmakers will count the Electoral College votes, in accordance with the 12th Amendment, and formally announce Trump as the next president. He will be ...

The most populous state in the union has one of the longest vote-counting processes. That’s partly because California has so ...