Republicans win but Democrats also claim victory with ballot box surge in Trump territory

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! RINGGOLD, GA — Republican congressional candidate Clay Fuller credited President Donald Trump in his victory speech after keeping a solidly red district in GOP hands and boosting Republicans’ razor-thin House majority. “He was the difference maker,” Fuller, who was backed by Trump, emphasized in a Fox News … Read more

Election expert testifies FBI’s evidence in Fulton County ballot case ‘doesn’t make sense’

ATLANTA — A leading elections expert told a federal judge on Friday that the evidence the FBI used to justify a recent seizure of 2020 election ballots from Fulton County, Georgia, “doesn’t make sense.” Ryan Macias, a former U.S. Election Assistance Commission official, testified that the list of irregularities the FBI identified didn’t represent a … Read more

14-year-old running for governor 1st teen to get on Vermont’s general election ballot

STOWE, Vt. — Looking back, gubernatorial candidate Dean Roy says his political ambitions started in the eighth grade. And by that he means, last year. After working as a legislative page at the Vermont Statehouse, the 14-year-old freshman at Stowe High School now has his sights set on the corner office. In November, he’ll be … Read more

Trump-endorsed effort to repeal Utah’s anti-gerrymandering law fails to make the ballot

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s new congressional map, which gives Democrats a high likelihood of picking up a U.S. House seat in the Salt Lake City area, is likely to remain in place beyond this election cycle because a Republican-led initiative to repeal the state’s anti-gerrymandering law failed to make the November ballot. The GOP … Read more

Trump explains why he cast a mail ballot in Florida’s election: ‘Because I’m president’

Just days after calling mail-in voting, “mail-in cheating,” President Donald Trump on Thursday explained why he decided to cast a mail ballot in a recent Florida special election. “You know what, because I’m president of the United States, and because of the fact that I’m president of the United States, I did a mail-in ballot … Read more

Ballot box upset: Democrats flip Florida legislative seat in Trump’s stomping ground

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Florida Democrats on Tuesday flipped control of a long-vacant Republican-held state House seat in a Palm Beach-anchored district that includes Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s home turf. The Associated Press reports that Democrat Emily Gregory defeated Republican Jon Maples in a special election in Florida’s House District 87, in … Read more

Some state officials say shifting mail ballot deadline will complicate plans for November elections

As he left the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court, where justices had just heard arguments Monday over whether to prevent states from counting mail ballots that arrive after Election Day, Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar texted his staff 3,000 miles away. His directive: Get ready to plan how to run November’s midterm elections … Read more

Trump casts a mail ballot again in Florida even as he calls the method ‘cheating’

President Donald Trump cast a mail ballot in an upcoming Florida special election, according to Palm Beach County records, while publicly condemning the voting method as fraudulent. “Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating. I call it mail-in cheating, and we got to do something about it all,” Trump said Monday. Public records indicate his mail ballot … Read more

In mail-in ballot case, Supreme Court justices ask what ‘Election Day’ really means

In more than two hours of oral arguments Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court debated whether federal law allows states to count mail-in ballots received after Election Day. A decision in the negative could alter voting procedures for at least 18 states and territories that count late mail-in ballots so long as they’re postmarked by Election … Read more