election results Dead Man Wins State House Seat and 4 Other Things You May Have Missed Election Night The outcome of the presidential election may still be up in the air, but a handful of other key moments did occur on Election night.
electoral college If Only Voting In a President Was as Simple as Ordering Food Delivery Election Day is over, you’ve cast your ballot… what happens now? Turns out that it’s still a long and winding road to Inauguration Day on Jan. 20. Using something we can all understand — our favorite food delivery apps — NBCLX’s Eric Rodriguez walks us through what happens between you casting your ballot and a president getting sworn in for...
swing states Attorneys Assemble! Legal Battles Already Underway in Swing States With Trump, Biden Campaigns Ready for More Both Democrats and Republicans have hundreds of lawyers ready to fight the results in key battleground states, including Florida and Pennsylvania, if the election outcome is uncertain. And the legal dispute are already underway in several key counties over which votes can be counted. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain offers an update.
Election 2020 Trump May Declare Victory on Election Night, But That Doesn't Mean He Won In the age of coronavirus and absentee voting the vote-counting timeline has dramatically changed, and there aren’t uniform practices for counting those ballots. That makes it difficult to predict when certain key battlegrounds, much less a national result, could be called.
election results Election Night 101: What You Need to Know About Early Voting and the Electoral College as the Results Roll In On the eve of Election Day, John Fortier of the Bipartisan Policy Democracy Project explains what you need to know to interpret the presidential race results as they begin rolling in on Election Night. What do the historic surges in early voting mean for President Trump and Joe Biden, and how can the Electoral College hand the White House to...
vote counting How Early Voting Rules in Each State May Create a Red or Blue Mirage on Election Night Forget the red and blue election map. The most important map to watch on Election Night is one that shows when each state starts counting its early ballots. The differing rules states use to prioritize when early voting ballots are counted may create a blue or red “mirage” on Election Night that shows early leads for either Joe Biden or...
