Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado at the Capitol in September. She initially gained political fame in 2020 as a gun activist, unseating a more moderate five-term Republican, Scott Tipton.
Lawmakers in states with new total Democratic control said they would try to join an effort to try to elect the next president effectively by popular vote. But momentum has stalled before.
Voters casting their ballots in Dearborn Heights, Mich., on Tuesday. A state lawmaker said that after Tuesday’s midterm results, “The time is right” to reconsider the Electoral College.
Scott Colom, a Democrat, ran a viral ad and courted Republicans at a Trump rally before winning virtually the same number of votes as Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican.
Ballots from Westchester County, N.Y., polling places will be escorted by the police to election headquarters and counted under the observation of lawyers from both parties after technical glitches prevented scanning machines from accepting them on Tuesday.
A ballot scanning machine at a polling site in Manhattan on Tuesday. North of the city, in Westchester County, some polling places reported glitches in the scanning of ballots.
A “bad actor” tried to breach the system, according to a Federal Election Commission email, disrupting political finance disclosures for two days during the final week of campaigning.
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