No matter what the rules are, no state releases results until after polls close. CORRECTION: This story has been updated to reflect that absentee ballots in Ohio must be postmarked the day before ...

Election Day is this Tuesday, but for various reasons, we may not get the results that night. One such hold-up is the work it takes to process and count mail-in ballots. Most U.S. states provide some ...

After the 2020 presidential election took days to call, many states reworked how they process mail ballots with the goal of delivering results faster — and cutting off oxygen for conspiracy theories ...

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States in play for both candidates in this year’s presidential election all allow voters to cast their ballots by mail, a process that has attracted controversies and legal battles in the final weeks ...

GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) — Williamson County voter Pamela Oldham said she can count on one hand the places she’s been during the pandemic. She’s been taking the quarantine seriously and has avoided ...

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Pennsylvania's House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a bill long sought by counties seeking help to manage huge influxes of mail-in ballots during elections in the presidential battleground ...

A new bill would give election officials a week to process mail ballots and make other long-sought changes. But it faces a long road to becoming law. Mail-in ballots are sorted in Allentown, Pa. in ...