PHOENIX — Observers working for Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) are keeping tabs on a mounting number of security flaws and procedural violations committed by ballot counters hired by the Republican-controlled state Senate to conduct an audit of votes cast in Maricopa County last year. In notes maintained over the past week, the […]
Oprah Winfrey recently summoned her cold-calling chops in order to encourage Texas voters to get to the polls — and the effort surprised the media mogul. Winfrey, 66, partnered with Beto O’Rourke’s Powered by People organization. In her first dial-out, the caller, named Christian, left Oprah nearly speechless, which she shared to Instagram on Tuesday. […]
By the time all the ballots are counted, she seems likely to be ahead by more than 2 million votes and more than 1.5 percentage points, according to my Times colleague Nate Cohn. She will have won by a wider percentage margin than not only Al Gore in 2000 but also Richard Nixon in 1968 […]
A number of court rulings went the Democrats’ way on the Friday before Election Day. In North Carolina, a federal judge stopped the state from blocking thousands of voters from casting ballots. Keri Brown of member station WFDD reports for our newscast unit that at least three counties had removed up to 4,000 voters after […]
