Election 2018

December 3, 2018 at 3:40 am

Voting access takes center stage in Georgia runoff

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's voters have one more chance to make their voices heard about the state's election infrastructure. Tuesday's runoff election for Georgia secretary...

Nation & World

Cheral Bogar, left, and Chris Rudolph, right, of King County Elections, unload a full ballot drop box on Election Day for the 2018 Midterms Tuesday November 6 in downtown Burien, Washington. Bogar drives the ballot van, while Rudolph is a project program manager for King County Elections. 208408

November 29, 2018 at 6:00 am

Washington state’s voter turnout barely misses midterm record set in 1970

With all votes counted and the totals certified this week, 71.83 percent of registered voters returned ballots for the Nov. 6 general election. That was...

November 20, 2018 at 5:14 am

These are the 5 undecided races two weeks after Election Day

There remain five races where there is not yet an official winner. In each of them, the Republican incumbent is defending the seat.

Nation & World

FILE -In this Oct. 9, 2018 file photo, the afternoon sun illuminates the Legislative Building, left, and the Insurance Building, right, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Democrats will pick up seats in the Washington state Legislature after the midterm election, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, but the exact number remains unclear with a handful of races still too close to call. In the House, party officials were paying close attention to seven races where Democrats were looking to gain seats and were leading in recent returns.

November 17, 2018 at 6:00 am

Recounts likely in a handful of Washington state legislative races

If the results as of Friday afternoon ultimately hold, Democrats would gain a total of three Senate seats and seven House seats.

Orange County Elections workers go through the hand recount of ballots at the Orange County Supervisor of Elections office in Orlando, Fla., Friday morning, Nov. 16, 2018. (Jacob Langston/Orlando Sentinel via AP) FLORL502 FLORL502

November 15, 2018 at 9:32 pm

Florida starts painstaking hand recount in US Senate race WATCH

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Volunteers gathered around folding tables Friday to begin a painstaking hand recount in Florida's acrimonious U.S. Senate contest, with a...

Nation & World

November 15, 2018 at 6:46 pm

Gun-rights advocates file lawsuit to block I-1639

Filed Thursday in U.S. District Court against the state of Washington and Attorney General Bob Ferguson, the lawsuit also includes plaintiffs who are gun dealers...

November 14, 2018 at 8:47 am

Map: Kim Schrier won big in King County suburbs, even in Dino Rossi’s neighborhood

In Issaquah, where Schrier has long had a pediatrics practice, she took nearly 70 percent of the votes counted in Election Day. In Sammamish, she...

Protesters supporting Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis and Republican senatorial candidate Gov. Rick Scott gather outside the office of the Broward County supervisor of elections in Lauderhill, Fla., on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018. Dusting off their playbook from 2000, Republicans claim the recount is rife with fraud. But what’s driving them is their narrow majority in the Senate and their need to deliver a win to the base. (Scott McIntyre/The New York Times) XNYT157 XNYT157

November 13, 2018 at 12:02 am

Trump calls on Florida Democrat to concede, implies fraud WATCH

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump sought to intervene in Florida's legally mandated vote recount Tuesday, calling on the state's Democratic senator to...

Nation & World

U.S. Sen.-elect Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., smiles after her victory over Republican challenger U.S. Rep. Martha McSally, Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Sinema won Arizona’s open U.S. Senate seat in a race that was among the most closely watched in the nation, beating McSally in the battle to replace GOP Sen. Jeff Flake. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri) AZRS103 AZRS103

November 12, 2018 at 8:59 pm

Democrat Sinema wins Arizona Senate seat running as centrist VIEW

Kyrsten Sinema's win achieves a longtime Democratic goal of making Arizona, with its growing Latino population, a competitive state. And she did it by pointedly...

Nation & World

A Broward Sheriff’s deputy watches as election workers move sorted ballots on Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, at the Broward Supervisor of Elections office in Lauderhill, Fla. The Florida recount continued Monday in Broward County. (Joe Cavaretta/Sun Sentinel/TNS) 1245411 1245411

November 11, 2018 at 9:41 pm

Judge: Sides in Florida recount should ‘ramp down’ rhetoric WATCH

This recount process is unprecedented even in a state notorious for settling elections by razor-thin margins. State officials said they weren't aware of any other...

Nation & World

Full coverage

Washington’s primary election tests new voter system, but ‘everything went according to plan’

Seattle City Council primary election 2019: All 3 incumbents leading

$219M Seattle library levy that would kill overdue fines is heading toward approval

$810M King County parks levy renewal headed toward win in primary election

Latest Headlines