Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An election observer monitors two poll workers processing absentee ballots in the Milwaukee ...

Election Day has come and gone in Pennsylvania, largely without issue. But for county officials in charge of voting around the state, the job isn’t over. For the most part, the state avoided ...

Each state handles recounts differently. For example, in Arizona, an automatic recount is triggered if the margin between candidates is less than or equal to 0.1 percent of the votes cast. In Georgia, ...

Secretary of State Tobias Read said the recounts are not likely to change any actual results. But counts can vary by one or two votes. The state does not keep centralized statistics on the differences ...

City Council candidates in Portsmouth and Norfolk who finished fewer than 100 votes shy of their opponents have formally requested recounts. The process is slated to kick off in Portsmouth on Tuesday ...

Is this a problem or not: Recounts of close elections are now so expensive in California that they are out-of-reach of everyone except the super-rich and well-funded special interests. The sharp ...

Two narrowly decided Ventura County races in the Nov. 5 election will not be recounted after campaigners decided the process was too expensive. County elections staff estimated that electronic ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Recounts in multiple counties across Arkansas are wrapping up after the close finish in the Republican runoff for secretary of state. The runoff race was between Bryan Norris and ...

Recounts will be held in Boston this weekend for both the mayoral and District 7 councilor races in last week’s preliminary election. The recounts were requested by mayoral candidate Domingos DaRosa ...