Battleground States Certify Election Results
This week’s Election Central update lets you know what is happening as states begin certifying final vote totals. Meanwhile, the Trump administration and the Republican National Committee are creating legal challenges to call the certified vote totals into question. A month has now passed since Election Day 2020, and the states are only now completing […]
Election 2020 Update
There is still news about the results of the most recent national elections in the United States. This week’s Election Central update keeps you up-to-date on what we know right now.. Two weeks after Election Day 2020, some states are still finishing up their counts. Other races are still too close to call, and there […]
“Off-Year” Elections? Not for Democrats
This week’s story update on Election Central gives you more information on the election results that happened in some states last week. They’re called “off-year” elections, but there was nothing “off” about last Tuesday night for Democrats around the nation. Several states saw big blue wins. But will 2019’s state-level Democratic gains automatically translate to […]
Gains for Democrats
This week, over on the Election Central Web site, the main story focuses on the political wins experienced by Democrats in last week’s state and local elections. Election night 2016 was a difficult time for many Democrats. This year, however, the opposite turned out to be the case. With large gains at local and state levels of […]
Russian Hacking and the Presidential Election
Rumors about Russian involvement in the presidential election have been circulating as long ago as last summer. Now, however, there is more evidence that Russian hackers, under orders from President Vladimir Putin, interfered in the election by breaking into the computers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and spreading propaganda and fake news stories. New […]
What Happened on Election Night?
One of the most surprising things about Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday night was that few people expected it: almost all of the polls leading up to the election predicted that Hillary Clinton would be the decisive winner. So why did they get their predictions so wrong? Exit polls are a national survey of voters. […]
2016 Election Night Time Line
Tonight, on the Election Central Web site, we are keeping track of the ongoing presidential election results as each state poll closes and the number of electoral votes are counted. We’ll be updating our time line throughout the night–and tomorrow (if needed?). So keep checking back and refresh your link to learn the latest. To learn […]