With Democrat Eileen Laubacher ahead and 97% of the vote counted, Lauren Boebert's campaign lawyer hinted that something was wrong with the count. He named nothing. In 2022, when Boebert was the one ahead by a few hundred votes, nobody on her side found anything unusual at all.
With Scott Colom ahead and thousands of ballots still out, Cindy Hyde-Smith's lawyers told every county in Mississippi to keep affidavit ballots in a separate pile. Colom's lawyer says state law doesn't allow that and that it could tie a ballot to the person who cast it.
Sen. Dan Sullivan trails Mary Peltola by 637 votes. Trump's answer: give him the votes of other people on the ballot and end the election. Alaska's law only moves a vote to the candidate that voter ranked next, and we found no statement from Sullivan rejecting the demand.
Clint Curtis cut Shasta County's drop boxes from 13 to four, claimed ballots smelled funny and brought the FBI to town with bolt cutters. On Election Night his office had overflowing ballot boxes, misplaced ballots and no results for two hours. 'Because I'm stupid,' he told a reporter.
Just after 7 a.m. on Election Day, Rep. Claudia Tenney told her followers Democrats were cheating in New York, quoting a poll worker's post about broken machines. The state blamed a programming error. Mike Lawler, whose own race was on those ballots, told voters there were no shenanigans.
On Election Day, Sen. Dan Sullivan accused his opponent of 'the biggest election cheating scandal' in Alaska history and floated a 'hush money' rumor he admitted might not be true. The tactic he was describing is generally legal, both parties have used it in Alaska, and FBI agents had been knocking on the doors of a retired teacher's small-town donors.
An immigrant rights group's lawyers got a look at the Trump administration's list of 20,000 supposed noncitizen voters in California and found more than 40% of the names aren't on the voter rolls at all, plus likely citizens. Two days before Election Day, the Justice Department asked a federal judge to consider sending them to it for a criminal contempt investigation.
Two days before Election Day, House Oversight Chairman James Comer said on Fox News that there's a 'big possibility' Democrat Mary Peltola won't be seated if she wins Alaska's Senate race. The same morning, a federal judge threw out the Trump administration's lawsuit to stop Alaska from certifying that race.
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