Wednesday’s congressional joint session to count electoral votes is taking on added importance this year
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Posted inElection 2020, Nation & World, Politics
Georgia counting votes in tight runoffs that will determine who controls Senate
The pivotal runoffs transformed Georgia, once a solidly Republican state, into one of the nation’s battlegrounds in the final days of the Trump presidency.
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Maine lawmakers seek more than a dozen changes to state election laws
Lawmakers from both parties are proposing reforms that could change the way Maine votes, including modifications made in 2020 to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Many more in GOP rejecting Trump’s bid to undo his defeat
‘The 2020 election is over,’ said a statement from a bipartisan group of 10 senators, including Maine Sen. Susan Collins.
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Shenna Bellows sworn in as Maine’s first female secretary of state
Also taking the oath of office Monday were Attorney General Aaron Frey, Treasurer Henry Beck and Matthew Dunlap, who changed jobs from secretary of state to state auditor.
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Some Maine Republican lawmakers demand colleagues return to work
Legislative leaders counter that work already is underway and the appropriations committee is meeting Tuesday.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Trump, allies launch desperate bid to get Congress to undo Biden’s election
The president’s unprecedented attempt to overturn the presidential election is splitting the Republican Party.
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Federal judge rejects Wisconsin lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump loss
In rejecting the lawsuit, the judge said it ‘rests on a fundamental and obvious misreading of the Constitution.’
Posted inElection 2020, Nation & World, Politics
Biden, Trump make election eve appeals in high-stakes Georgia Senate runoffs
More than 3 million Georgians already have voted.
Posted inElection 2020, Nation & World, Politics
Fact check: Trump’s made-up claims of fake Georgia votes
President Donald Trump asserted a dizzying array of fuzzy accounting and outright false claims in an extraordinary phone call to Georgia’s secretary of state seeking a reversal of his election defeat