There are several reasons elections take longer to count in California than other places around the country. The state requires every voter to be sent a mail-in ballot, which has become the ...

Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections Christina White, right, examines signatures on vote-by-mail ballots with members of the Canvassing Board Judge Raul Cuervo, left, and Judge Betsy Alvarez ...

In 2015, California implemented its first postmark deadline, meaning that the state can count mail ballots that arrive after Election Day as long as the Postal Service receives the ballot by ...

An election night ballot count could have identified and removed test ballots, Marks said. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley said Georgia’s new election rules will safeguard ...

The new tally comes as the Democratic Party continues to wrestle with the implications of Mamdani’s historic upset win.

In fact, Ohio still reports over 180,000 mail and provisional ballots still to count, as of Friday morning, which is likely more than all the remaining ballots left to count in Nevada.

There were approximately 113,000 absentee ballots left to count across the state as of Friday at 5 p.m. ET, according to the state’s election website, which is just under 5% of mail-in ballots cast.

The vote count will stretch deep into the night, and potentially into the following days, because of a state law that prevents election officials from beginning this laborious task any earlier.

Vote-counting machines — or, more officially, tabulators — are the equipment that count your ballot. They are used in more than 90% of election jurisdictions in the U.S. and all of Arizona's ...