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Virus outbreak slows ballot count in Westmoreland County
A coronavirus outbreak in the Westmoreland County Elections Bureau is slowing the provisional ballot count as officials scrambled Thursday to find additional volunteers to complete the work as the deadline to certify results from the Nov. 3 election nears. Commissioner Doug Chew said six county workers affiliated with the Elections...
Sen. Lindsey Graham giving $1M to help Georgia’s GOP senators
WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who was just reelected in South Carolina, says he’s donating $1 million of his campaign money to help two GOP senators win runoff races in neighboring Georgia. Graham told Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” on Thursday that Republicans need to counter a “tsunami...
Trump, stewing over election loss, silent as coronavirus surges
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has publicly disengaged from the battle against the coronavirus at a moment when the disease is tearing across the United States at an alarming pace. Trump, fresh off his reelection loss to President-elect Joe Biden, remains angry that an announcement about progress in developing a...
Grief, anger, disbelief: Trump voters face Biden’s victory
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — When Joan Martin heard that Joe Biden had been declared the winner of the presidential election, the retired nurse and avowed supporter of President Donald Trump was deeply unsettled. To steel herself, she thought about how her household weathered Hurricane Katrina when it battered her hometown...
Lt. Gov. Fetterman seeks claim of $1M voter fraud reward from Texas lieutenant governorVideo
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is asking for his share of a reward after he offered up a case of voter fraud to Republican Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick via Twitter. Patrick had announced that he is giving out $1 million in rewards for information that leads to voter fraud...
Over 180 boxes with votes and voting materials found in Puerto Rico after elections
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — At least 180 boxes filled with voting materials and uncounted votes from across Puerto Rico have surfaced since the elections on Nov. 3, the election commission said, raising questions and concerns about the validity of the preliminary results. Initially, the Puerto Rico State Commission on...
Money to support Trump court fight could flow to president
WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump’s chances of reelection dwindled last week, his campaign began blasting out a nonstop stream of emails and text messages that led to a website raising money for an “election defense fund” to contest the outcome. Like many hallmarks of the Trump presidency, the messages...
Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania people named to Biden’s transition team
President-elect Joe Biden has named several people with Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania ties to the agency review teams that will guide a transition before Jan. 20, when Biden is scheduled to take office. Although they don’t have a say in the matter, political science experts in the region say Biden should...
Allegheny County tallies nearly 15,000 more votes, count continues Thursday
Allegheny County counted another 14,969 ballots Wednesday, bringing the total number of ballots cast in the county to nearly 718,000, officials said. The Return Board counted the last 7,000 ballots that remained to be processed from the batch of 29,000 that had to be set aside because of a printing...
Trump, GOP drop Nevada court appeal of ballot count case
LAS VEGAS — A state court legal fight to stop the counting of mail ballots in the Las Vegas area has ended after the Nevada Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by the Donald Trump campaign and the state Republican party, at their request. The dismissal leaves two active legal cases...
With GOP win in Alaska, control of Senate pushes to January
WASHINGTON — Control of the Senate won’t be decided until the new year after Republicans won a seat in Alaska on Wednesday. Neither party can lock the majority until January runoffs in Georgia. Incumbent Alaska GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan defeated Al Gross, an independent running as a Democrat. With Democratic...
Georgia audit to trigger hand recount of presidential voteVideo
ATLANTA — Georgia’s secretary of state on Wednesday announced an audit of presidential election results that he said would be done with a full hand tally of ballots because the margin is so tight. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said at a news conference that his office wants the process...
Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick offers $1M reward as Trump makes unfounded claims
AUSTIN, Texas — Republican Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick on Tuesday offered up to $1 million in defense of President Donald Trump’s unsupported claims of irregularities in the U.S. presidential election, saying he would pay out rewards for information that leads to voter fraud arrests and convictions. The money put...
Dems clinch House control, but majority likely to shrink
WASHINGTON — Democrats clinched two more years of controlling the House but with a potentially razor-thin majority, a bittersweet finale to last week’s elections that has left them divided and with scant margin for error for advancing their agenda. The party on Tuesday nailed down at least 218 seats, according...
States cite smooth election, despite Trump’s baseless claims
ATLANTA — The 2020 election unfolded smoothly across the country and without any widespread irregularities, according to state officials and election experts, a stark contrast to the baseless claims of fraud being leveled by President Donald Trump following his defeat. Election experts said the large increase in advance voting —...
Oakmont Councilwoman Carrie DelRosso claims victory in race to unseat Frank Dermody
Oakmont Councilwoman Carrie Lewis DelRosso claimed victory Tuesday night in her race to unseat state House Minority Leader Frank Dermody. DelRosso, a Republican, had collected 51.5% of the votes counted compared with Dermody’s 48.5%, a margin of 923 votes, according to unofficial results from the Pennsylvania Department of State. “I’m...
Republican Stacy Garrity claims victory in state treasurer’s raceVideo
HARRISBURG — Republican Stacy Garrity, a retired U.S. Army Reserves colonel who is vice president of a tungsten smelting plant, claimed victory Tuesday in the Pennsylvania state treasurer’s race. Her Democratic opponent, incumbent Treasurer Joe Torsella, conceded Tuesday in a phone call to Garrity and posted a video message on...
Westmoreland County ballot challenges to be heard Friday
Westmoreland commissioners will serve as the county’s elections board Friday to begin adjudication of challenges to mail-in and provisional ballots cast during the Nov. 3 election. Commissioners spent Monday and Tuesday reviewing 816 mail-in ballots that arrived at the courthouse between 8 p.m. on Election Day and 5 p.m. Nov....
Allegheny County to count 2,349 undated ballots
The Allegheny County Board of Elections on Tuesday voted to count 2,349 ballots that appear to be eligible in every way save for the voter failing to put a date on the outer envelope. The ballots, which have not been opened, all arrived on or before Election Day, as they...
State lawmakers call for creation of a panel to investigate, audit election
Citing a deluge of calls to their offices and legal challenges filed by the Trump campaign, state lawmakers in the Republican-controlled House called for an audit of the election Tuesday as well as an investigation, complete with subpoena power. The move, seeking to empanel a commission controlled by lawmakers, came...
Cal Cunningham concedes to U.S. Sen. Tillis in North Carolina
RALEIGH — Democrat Cal Cunningham conceded to incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis in North Carolina on Tuesday, saying “the voters have spoken” and it was clear Tillis had won. With Cunningham’s concession, all eyes turned to Georgia, where two U.S. Senate runoff races in January are likely to determine...
GOP backs Trump as he fights election results, transition
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration threw the presidential transition into tumult, with President Donald Trump blocking government officials from cooperating with President-elect Joe Biden’s team and Attorney General William Barr authorizing the Justice Department to probe unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud. Some Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, rallied...
Lawsuits’ threat looms as Pennsylvania vote count grinds on
HARRISBURG — President Donald Trump’s campaign launched a lawsuit to stop the certification of the election results in Pennsylvania, suing Monday as counties continued to sort through provisional ballots and late-arriving mail-in ballots nearly a week after the election. The Associated Press on Saturday called the presidential contest for former...
After Biden win, McConnell says Trump OK to fight election
WASHINGTON — Despite President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says President Donald Trump is “100% within his rights” to question election results and consider legal options. The Republican leader said Monday the process will play out and “reach its conclusion.” Trump has declined to concede the presidential...
Westmoreland debates how to count mail-in ballots that arrived minutes late on Election Day
Westmoreland County election officials said Monday that 375 mail-in ballots delivered to the courthouse nine minutes late on Election Day will not initially be added to the vote totals. County commissioners, acting as the elections board, approved the start of the process to review and count all 816 ballots that...
