Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has no symptoms and has not tested positive.

Dan Sullivan won re-election in Alaska on Wednesday — putting the Republicans within one seat of maintaining their majority in the U.S. Senate. The Republican incumbent defeated independent challenger Al Gross who was running with the backing of Democrats, meaning control of the Senate will come down to two runoff elections in Georgia between GOP...

Republicans are on track to hold 50 Senate seats going into the Georgia run-offs while Democrats have 48.

A coalition of legislators are calling on the board to vote against using the Express Vote XL from Election Software & Systems, arguing they’re too expensive and prone to trouble.

“Elections matter, voting matters, and leadership matters,” Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) said.

The US joined Australia, the UK and Canada on Sunday in condemning the recent arrest of dozens of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. Fifty-five people — including American human rights lawyer John Clancey — were rounded up last week for participating in unofficial election primaries for legislative elections, in violation of a Chinese law aimed...

Cannabis stocks surged on Wednesday after runoff Senate elections in Georgia appeared to cement Democratic control of Congress, raising hopes of national marijuana legalization.

Schumer, who’s in line to take over as Senate majority leader, revealed his stimulus check priority while talking to reporters on Capitol Hill after both Democratic challengers in Georgia’s runoff elections were declared victorious over the Republican incumbents.

“I am appalled by the reckless behavior of some political leaders since the election and by the lack of respect shown today for our institutions, our traditions, and our law enforcement,” Bush said in a statement.

Georgians cast high-stakes final votes Tuesday in elections to determine the balance of power in the new Congress,

Democrat Raphael Warnock was declared the victor in one of Georgia’s two Senate runoff elections, defeating incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler. Warnock, a pastor at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church where Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, became the first black man elected to represent Georgia in the Senate. With his narrow win, Democrats have...

Georgia voters braved the winter chill and turned out en masse at polling stations Tuesday to vote in one of the most consequential and expensive elections in US history. The eyes of the nation are trained on Georgia for two hugely impactful runoff races that will determine which party controls the Senate and whether incoming...

​The Senate runoff elections in Georgia are critical because of the role they’ll play in determining control of the Senate and how they will affect President-elect Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, but they’re also notable for shattering fundraising records and massive campaign ad spending. The races between Republican incumbent Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler against...

After two long months since Nov. 3, Election Day is back Tuesday — in Georgia where two run-off races that will decide control of the US Senate are nearly as consequential as the presidential election. Already over 3 million Georgians have voted early in the critical races, which will determine whether Senate Majority Leader Mitch...

President Trump on Monday hinted what he’ll be doing once he leaves the White House later this month: commanding US politics. At a rally in Dalton, Georgia on the eve of two crucial Senate runoff elections, the outgoing commander in chief railed against the Peach State’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp for not overturning President-elect Joe...

​Sen. Ted Cruz said he considers the big tech behemoths the largest threats to “free and fair elections” in the country because of their oversized influence, but Google tops the list because of its global reach. “I think hands down Google is the most dangerous company on the face of the planet. Google is the...

As President Trump continued to condemn the US Senate elections in Georgia as corrupt, Democrats took an early lead in the two runoffs as early voting ended on Jan. 1, according to an analysis of returns from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. While state law mandates that no ballots be opened before election night on Tuesday, Georgia’s...

Georgia GOP Sen. David Perdue and his wife will enter quarantine just days before the crucial US Senate runoff elections after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, his campaign announced Thursday. “This morning, Senator Perdue was notified that he came into close contact with someone on the campaign who tested positive...

​More than 2.8 million votes have already been cast in the Jan. 5 Senate runoff elections that will determine whether Democrats or Republicans have majority control over the chamber.

The president-elect plans to hold a Monday rally in Atlanta to back Democrats Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock in the closing hours of their fight against two incumbent Republican senators on Tuesday.

Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock slammed their opponents in the crucial Senate run-off elections for dragging their feet on the bigger payments.

Election officials in Georgia are gearing up for the possibility that next month’s Senate runoff elections may spend weeks in litigation before a final winner is determined. The state has become closely divided in recent years and both Democrats and Republicans expect the results to be razor-thin. President Trump lost the state in the 2020...

A federal grand jury has indicted six anti-government extremists with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as part of a disturbing plot thwarted just weeks before the November elections, prosecutors announced Thursday. The group planned the stunning abduction and other violent actions, including televised executions of politicians they disagreed with, out of anger over Whitmer’s str...

The first Democratic presidential candidate to win Georgia since 1992, Biden returns to the state Tuesday to campaign alongside Ossoff and Warnock ahead of the Jan. 5 runoff elections.

Joe Biden stumped in Georgia on Tuesday ahead of two crucial Senate runoff elections which will decide if he governs with control of both houses of Congress or will have to do battle with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). A day after being named president-elect with the 306-232 vote of the Electoral College, Biden...

Modest crowds of voters turned out at polling places from rural county courthouses to a sprawling downtown Atlanta stadium as the drawn-out contest to pick the Peach State’s two senators kicked off in earnest.

Vice President Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will both head to Georgia this week ahead of the two Senate run-offs that will decide which party controls the body. Pompeo will appear first, delivering a speech on Wednesday at Georgia Tech on “the China challenge to U.S. national security and academic freedom,” the State...

During a contentious Sunday night debate ahead of next month’s pivotal Senate runoff elections in Georgia, Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler refused to acknowledge that President Trump lost the 2020 presidential election. Speaking one day after she vowed to stand by the president as he stumped for Georgia’s GOP Senate contenders at a Peach State rally, Loeffler repeatedly...

Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) and Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) need a strong turnout in the GOP heartland to turn aside the challenges of Democrats Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock.

Wisconsin officials on Monday certified President-elect Joe Biden’s win after a partial recount added 87 votes to the Democrat’s narrow margin. Ann Jacobs, the Democratic chairwoman of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, confirmed Biden’s victory over President Trump by 20,695 votes out of about 3.3 million ballots cast. Trump’s campaign paid $3 million this month for...