CISA in contact with Maricopa County over tabulation points, senior official says
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is speaking with Maricopa County over problems with some vote tabulation machines, a senior company official informed reporters this afternoon.
The official additionally burdened that none of the potential hitches thus far in Tuesday’s election, together with the difficulties in Arizona, amounted to a professional risk to the election’s integrity. “We’ve seen a few of these today, as happens on every election day. None of this is out of the ordinary,” she mentioned.
The CISA official, who requested to not be named as a part of the phrases of the name, expressed confidence in the state and native election officers, and mentioned there remained no credible risk to precise election infrastructure or the vote rely.
“Elected officials released video clearly explaining how voting machinery works, the layers of resiliency built into the voting process, and why Maricopa County voters can have confidence in their systems, and whether votes are counted in precincts or whether they’re counted centrally. The process is fully transparent and open to a bipartisan observers,” the official mentioned.
“One of the great things about Arizona, it is an all paper ballot state,” the CISA official mentioned.
The official additionally confirmed that the company has been in contact with Dominion Voting Systems, which is utilized in Arizona. The official famous that Dominion is a member of the Election Sector Coordinating Council, a private-public election partnership group. “We’re in close touch with all of all of the members of the SEC,” she mentioned.
Scattered studies of voter machine points, however nothing out of the peculiar thus far, election safety professional says
There’s loads of election left at the moment, however varied studies of voting machine points do not seem like something out of the peculiar, in accordance to Eddie Perez, a board member at the Open Source Election Technology Institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit group that advocates for election safety and integrity.
“At this point, not only from a voting technology standpoint, but also given what we expected about disinformation, this seems about what we expected,” he mentioned in a written message. “But it’s early, and we have a long way to go before we’re out of the woods.”
Hugging and cheering at the polls
Biden has traveled to 14 states since Labor Day, however averted some key battlegrounds
Since the midterm elections started heating up simply earlier than Labor Day, President Joe Biden attended 15 occasions for gubernatorial candidates, 14 occasions for Senate candidates and 12 occasions for House candidates.
The occasions embrace 5 with Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman, three with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and three with Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro.
Biden didn’t journey to a number of key Senate battleground states, together with Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, New Hampshire and North Carolina, throughout the closing months of the midterms.
In that point, Biden has spent 25 days in his house state of Delaware —practically all for holidays or weekends — eight days in Maryland (the place Camp David is situated), and 7 days every in New York and Pennsylvania. He additionally spent 5 days in California; two days in Florida, Oregon and Illinois; and a day every in Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and New Jersey.
Biden has by no means traveled to Kansas, Maine or Arizona — all gubernatorial battlegrounds — throughout his presidency.
In Houston, an area check of GOP’s nationwide messaging on crime
HOUSTON — Hoping to capitalize on voter perceptions about rising crime in America’s third-most populous county, Republican donors have spent tens of millions of {dollars} to regain management of Harris County, Texas, which incorporates Houston and its sprawling suburbs.
The struggle for the county’s prime elected place between two Hispanic ladies has been seen as a check of whether or not GOP messaging on public security is resonating amongst suburban voters who turned in opposition to then-President Donald Trump in 2020. County Judge Lina Hidalgo, a rising star in the Democratic Party who was swept into office in the blue wave of 2018, is locked in a decent race with Alexandra del Moral Mealer, a Republican and an Army veteran who has raised a record $8.6 million. She’s used that cash to hammer Hidalgo on violent crime, which has increased in Harris County at a similar rate as different main cities since 2020 however is down considerably this yr.
Mealer’s messaging seems to be resonating with many citizens in Houston, the place neighborhoods are dotted with marketing campaign indicators that learn, “Tired of Crime? Vote for Republican Judges.” Walter Sklenar, 69, a retired geologist, solid a poll for Mealer on the first day of early voting. On Election Day, he stood outdoors a busy West Houston polling location holding a Mealer signal — the first time he’d volunteered for a marketing campaign.
“The way things have been going in this county with crime, this election was too important,” Sklenar mentioned. “I wanted to do whatever I could to get us to change course.”
Illinois county clerk’s workplace says it has been hit by cyberattack
The Champaign County Clerk’s Office, which manages elections for that county, is experiencing web site slowdowns that it believes are due to a deliberate cyberattack, the Illinois county mentioned Tuesday.
Such an assault wouldn’t impression voters’ capability to solid their ballots. But it could actually make accessing net providers, like information on polling location, tougher.
The workplace wrote on a press release posted to its Facebook account that it was experiencing a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) assault, a easy hacker method to overwhelm an internet site with visitors, making it both sluggish to entry or briefly knocking it offline.
“These cyber-attacks are a strategic and coordinated effort to undermine and destabilize our democratic process,” it wrote. “The intent is to discourage you from voting. Please do not fall victim to this,” the put up mentioned.
“Please stay in line! Election judges and staff are doing everything they can to process voters according to the requirements of election law while navigating these attacks,” the put up added. “Let me reiterate that we are committed to making sure every voter has a chance to cast their ballot so please stay in line.”
Philadelphia votes for last-minute change to catch double votes
PHILADELPHIA — Election commissioners voted at the final minute Tuesday morning to reinstate a course of that flags mail-in ballots submitted by voters who additionally voted in individual.
The course of provides some further time to the vote rely, however a Philadelphia election official informed NBC News the transfer was made out of an “abundance of caution” due to “fears of misinformation” being unfold following a lawsuit by a nationwide GOP election regulation group that had sued the metropolis over the double-counting course of.
Wait occasions for Georgia voters averaging 3 minutes, elections official says
Voting has appeared to be a breeze for a lot of Georgia counties, with wait occasions averaging round 3 minutes, a prime elections official mentioned Tuesday afternoon.
The longest line was in Stephens County at 13 minutes, adopted by a precinct in Long County at 11 minutes, mentioned Gabriel Sterling, the chief working officer for the Secretary of State’s Office. Wilkinson County had one polling station with an 8-minute wait time.
“So far voting across Georgia has been spectacularly boring. Fingers crossed it stays that way,” Sterling tweeted.
When the polls opened Tuesday morning, the common statewide wait time was about 5 minutes.
Election to decide way forward for abortion entry in North Carolina
North Carolina Republicans are poised to increase their maintain on the House and the Senate right into a supermajority this election, clearing the means to push by way of higher restrictions on abortion, a political professional mentioned.
The state, which at the moment permits abortion up to 20 weeks, has seen a spike in the variety of abortions in the wake of the Supreme Court’s resolution to strike down Roe v. Wade. In the most up-to-date legislative session, North Carolina lawmakers tried and failed to cross a law banning abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is usually earlier than many ladies know they’re pregnant.
The state’s Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, signed an executive order in July to defend ladies who search abortions in North Carolina from extradition to different states the place abortion is taken into account a criminal offense.
A Republican supermajority would imply they “will be able to pass almost any policy that they wanted to without getting a single Democrat on their side,” said Chris Cooper, the director of the Public Policy Institute at Western Carolina University. (He is unrelated to the governor.)
A shift on abortion policy would have effects that range beyond the state’s borders, Cooper said. Many states surrounding North Carolina have either banned abortion outright or limited it to just a few weeks after conception. From April through August, the state saw a 37% rise in abortions, the highest increase of any state according to the Society of Family Planning.
GOP politicians and pundits seize on Maricopa issues with some spreading misleading or false information
Various GOP politicians and pundits have seized on voting machine issues in Maricopa County, Arizona, with some pointing to the situation to perpetuate doubts about the security of U.S. elections.
Discussion around the voting machine issues spread quickly as Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative youth activism group Turning Point USA, tweeted about the situation, according to the Election Integrity Partnership, a coalition or research organizations focused on elections.
“Spread of the story on major platforms is a mixture of misleading framing and factual reporting,” the group said on Twitter. “Conversations range from legitimate critiques of voting infrastructure, calls to encourage voting in the state, to misleading narratives around planned election fraud.”
The word “cheating” trended on Twitter on Tuesday morning, with some accounts amplifying a burgeoning right-wing conspiracy theory that sought to cast doubts on election results in Arizona. The conspiracy theory draws from a single video in Anthem, Arizona, in which an election worker informed a crowd that two vote tabulators were not working. The election worker told the crowd to place their ballots in “Box 3,” where they would get counted manually or later fed into the tabulator, a routine way to count ballots in the case of a tabulator outage.
Elections officials in Maricopa later posted a video explaining the issues around the voting machines and assuring the public that they were working on a fix. Election officials have clarified that the issues in Maricopa are with the machines that count votes, and that any ballots filled out and deposited into the ballot boxes will be counted.
But that video and other issues in Maricopa have fueled some unfounded claims, most notably around “Box 3.” Several prominent GOP Twitter accounts shared the video, including GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and Arizona GOP chairwoman Kelli Ward, tweeting an image with language telling voters to “not put your ballot in Box 3.” Both Lake and Ward have disputed the results of the 2020 election. The “Box 3” issue was also posted to the far-right extremist site The Donald on Tuesday, where it was pinned to the top of the message board.
About 3,600 ballots being questioned, Philadelphia mayor’s office says
Nearly 3,600 mail-in ballots in Philadelphia are being questioned because they are lacking proper signatures, dates or were unassigned, a spokesperson for Mayor Jim Kenney told NBC News.
The development comes a day after a Democratic lawsuit filed in part by Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman’s campaign demanded that undated or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots be counted in the battleground state’s election.
The lawsuit, which names the state’s 67 county election boards as defendants, argues that a provision in state law requiring that mail-in ballots include the date on the outside of the envelopes violates federal law.
Civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP, filed a similar complaint Friday against state election officials.
The authorized struggle got here after the state’s high court sided with the Republican National Committee by ordering native elections boards not to rely the ballots in query.
Nevada Democrats attempt to defy gravity with aggressive ground game
LAS VEGAS — Hundreds of union members supporting Democrats rallied at 6 a.m. on Election Day with the major candidates across the ballot, pledging to defy economic forces and beat the GOP with an aggressive ground game.
Culinary Union workers, made up of hotel employees, bartenders, restaurant workers and other service industry laborers, converged in an energetic rally, chanting “si se puede!” and “We vote, we win!” earlier than dispersing into the neighborhoods to get out the vote.
“We’re gonna make history today,” Culinary Union secretary-treasurer Ted Pappageorge mentioned in an interview. “I think winning in a midterm with Democrats in power means we will have made history.”
Democrats nationally are bracing for the chance of a harsh rebuke from voters due to excessive inflation and fuel costs, and voters traditionally have blamed the social gathering in cost for financial woes. But Democrats right here are trying to struggle these headwinds by speaking to voters at the doorways. The Culinary Union says its unleashed its largest on-the-ground motion this midterm election, anticipated to hit 1 million doorways by day’s finish. In Nevada, Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto are battling to preserve their seats in opposition to Republican candidates Joe Lombardo and Adam Laxalt, respectively.
Tech employees dispatched to repair vote tabulators in Arizona’s largest county
Technicians have been dispatched in Maricopa County polling websites to decide why vote tabulation machines in about 1 out of each 5 areas are unable to read ballots, county Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates mentioned Tuesday.
“At a few of these locations, maybe every fifth or fourth ballot is not being accepted into the tabulator,” Gates informed NBC News.
Voters at polling websites the place machines are malfunctioning have the choice to both drop their ballots in a safe field to be counted later in the day or go to one other location. When requested about whether or not the technical points are additional fueling mistrust in the election system, Gates pointed to the choices that Maricopa County voters have to guarantee their ballots are counted.
“We have hiccups,” he added. “They had a hiccup with the Powerball drawing last night, right? These things happen, but I would say to them, actually this should make them feel good because they see the type of redundancies that we have in place.”
Josh Shapiro says he ‘feels actually good’ after casting his vote
Speaking with reporters after casting his vote, Pennsylvania Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro mentioned he “feels really good” about his marketing campaign.
Shapiro mentioned he’s “incredibly humbled” about his coalition, which he mentioned introduced on Republicans who oppose GOP challenger Doug Mastriano’s election denying rhetoric.
“It’s a coalition that will, God willing, not only help us win today, but help us govern in the future and bring people together and really solve problems,” Shapiro mentioned.
Asked a couple of potential change in his marketing campaign technique on condition that he and Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman, who’s locked in a decent race in opposition to Republican Mehmet Oz, didn’t marketing campaign collectively till extra lately, Shapiro dismissed the notion, saying that their campaigns have been collaborating.
“John and I have been together at different times throughout this process,” he said. “We’ve run a coordinated campaign together and, correct me if I’m wrong, I think we were together three times this past week.”
Security at a polling station in Bryn Athyn, Pa.
Louisiana polling place moved after bomb threat
A polling place in Louisiana was moved from one school to another Tuesday after a bomb threat, according to John Tobler, the deputy secretary of communications and outreach at the Louisiana Department of State.
Tobler said that the threat was made against Kenner Discovery, a school located about 20 minutes outside New Orleans. The new polling location is an elementary school in the same precinct called Audubon Elementary.
A representative of the Kenner Police Department said that Kenner Discovery also received a bomb threat five days ago. Middle school and high school students were evacuated that day and local police and fire departments searched the campus.
Voters cast their ballots at polling sites across the country
NAACP files lawsuit over alleged voter intimidation in majority Black Texas precinct
The NAACP has sued Jefferson County, Texas, in federal court for alleged voter intimidation at a community center in Beaumont, a majority Black precinct.
The lawsuit, filed in federal district court Friday, alleges that white poll workers throughout early voting repeatedly asked only Black voters “in aggressive tones” to recite “out loud within the earshot of other voters, poll workers, and poll watchers, their addresses, even when the voter was already checked in by a poll worker.”
The NAACP also alleged that white poll workers and poll watchers followed Black voters, and in some cases, their assistants, around the polling place, “including standing two feet behind a Black voter and the assistant, while the voter was at the machine casting a ballot.”
Additionally, white poll workers allegedly helped white voters scan their voted ballots into voting machines, but did not similarly help Black voters with that task.
Unless this court takes action, defendants “will proceed to violate function the Community Center with racially discriminatory intent, thereby stopping Black voters like plaintiffs from receiving equal therapy whereas attempting to train their constitutional proper to vote,” the lawsuit mentioned.
Arizona’s largest county studies points with voting machines
Vote tabulation machines in about 20% of polling areas in Maricopa County are having technical points and are unable to learn ballots, election officers mentioned Tuesday.
“We’re trying to fix this problem as quickly as possible,” Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates mentioned in a video shared on Twitter.
In an try to fight misinformation, the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office mentioned voters at polling websites with tabulator points might both place their accomplished ballots in a safe field on website to be counted later or they might vote at one other location.
“If there are lines at the location you’re at or issues with the tabulator, if you would prefer to go to another location, you can do that,” Gates mentioned. “It doesn’t matter where you go, as long as you’re a registered voter in Maricopa County.”
Maricopa County makes use of paper ballots, and election officers mentioned about 44,000 individuals voted as of Tuesday morning.
‘Technical points’ with Louisiana voting portal, app are resolved, secretary of state says
The “technical issues” going through the Louisiana voter portal and Geaux Vote app “have been resolved,” Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin tweeted Tuesday morning. The app and portal had been down for a part of the morning and the state’s election hotline additionally briefly skilled points.
Why does it take so lengthy to rely ballots?
WASHINGTON — When the polls shut, the wait begins — and you might have considered trying to get comfy, as a result of it might take some time earlier than we all know the winners and losers.
State election officers are reminding voters that it’s regular for it to take days and even weeks to know the final result — it took 5 days for Joe Biden to be declared the winner in 2020, and a few races took even longer. But they are saying that’s the price of constructing certain each vote is counted precisely in America’s extremely decentralized elections.
“It takes time to accurately tabulate millions of ballots,” two teams that characterize the nation’s secretaries of state and election administrators mentioned in a joint assertion Monday. “We implore voters and members of the media to allow election officials to do their work.”
The course of is painstaking. To guarantee safety and keep away from hacks, some jurisdictions require poll containers to be bodily collected by truck and even helicopter, whereas others require ballot employees to drive by way of the evening with vote knowledge on reminiscence playing cards. It can be typically mandatory to track down individual voters to ensure that their votes are counted appropriately.
Here are some reasons we might be waiting.
Intelligence and regulation enforcement businesses gear up for potential election threats
U.S. intelligence and regulation enforcement businesses are gearing up for a panoply of potential threats to the election, together with extremist violence, cyberattacks, social media disinformation and voter intimidation.
“I think we’re as prepared as we possibly could be,” one Justice Department official mentioned, whereas including that regardless of months of planning and tabletop workouts, individuals are “anxious and on edge.”
The FBI’s public corruption and civil rights part shall be dealing with voter and poll fraud, potential civil rights violations and marketing campaign finance points, as will the risk to election employees process pressure. As of a month in the past, that process pressure had acquired about 1,000 ideas, and about 11% of these met the threshold to be investigated as a federal crime.
The FBI mentioned the threats are highest in states wherein then-President Donald Trump contested the 2020 election outcomes, together with Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Wisconsin.
Additionally, every FBI subject workplace will deploy two election crime coordinators to deal with operational and intelligence elements. Those officers will liaise with native and state regulation enforcement companions to examine any bodily or cyberthreats to polling locations, amongst different issues.
Pennsylvania Senate candidates Oz and Fetterman arrive to solid their ballots
N.C. voters reporting harassment and intimidation at polling stations, election officers say
North Carolina voters are reporting doable harassment and intimidation at polling stations, in accordance to an early incident report from the state board of elections.
In New Hanover, college students allegedly have been harassed whereas strolling to class from a voting website, and an observer allegedly “angrily” confronted an election official, the board reported.
In Columbus County, election officers allegedly have been harassed by an “observer following one-stop workers” and photographing or filming the employees, it mentioned.
Other allegations embrace curbside voters in Wake being photographed as they waited to solid ballots and electioneers in Harnett allegedly “videotaping voters coming and going and informing the voters they were being recorded,” the board reported.
Pat Gannon, a spokesperson for the board, told a local NBC affiliate that the incidents are “isolated” and regulation enforcement is monitoring them. The Department of Justice additionally introduced plans to be on-site in 24 states on Election Day to guarantee voter rights are protected.
Arizona flags 18 circumstances of alleged voter intimidation
At least 18 circumstances of alleged voter intimidation throughout Arizona have been referred to native and federal regulation enforcement businesses for evaluation since the begin of early voting Oct. 12, the secretary of state’s workplace mentioned Tuesday.
Those voters described feeling intimidated at ballot drop box sites when voting early, with some complaining that they have been being watched with binoculars or that they have been approached by individuals claiming to be with “election security” and who took photos of their license plates and vehicles.
“Voters should be able to cast their ballot without fear of intimidation,” mentioned Sophia Solis, a spokeswoman for Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who can be the Democratic candidate for governor in Arizona.
Top Georgia election official says new document already set for absentee votes
In-person voting simply kicked off in the battleground state, however a brand new document has already been set for absentee ballots throughout a midterm election cycle, in accordance to Gabriel Sterling, a prime official in the Office of Georgia Secretary of State.
“As we start Election Day, 2,524,193 Georgians have already cast their votes and we set a new record (that will grow) for absentee votes in a midterm of 234,347,” Sterling tweeted at 7 a.m. ET.
Louisiana voting portal, app, hotline ‘experiencing technical difficulties’
The Louisiana “GeauxVote” app, on-line portal and elections hotline “are currently experiencing technical difficulties,” Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin tweeted Tuesday morning.
He later instructed voters to use the hotline whereas the website continued to have issues.
The GeauxVote portal and app permit Louisiana voters to verify what’s on their poll, register to vote or change their voter registration information, verify voting areas and look at election outcomes.
Voters line up to solid their ballots in Warwick, R.I.
U.S. cyber watchdog sees no imminent threats
The prime U.S. infrastructure protection company sees no main cyber threats to the election as Americans head to the polls Tuesday morning, a senior U.S. official mentioned.
In the first of three Election Day calls with reporters, a senior official from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, who requested to not be named, mentioned the company has spent a lot of the previous two years serving to state and native election officers put together, and that the company knew of “no specific or credible threats to disrupt election infrastructure today.”
That’s not a assure that the election received’t see hitches, although, the official mentioned.
“There are 8,800 election jurisdictions and we see issues pop up every election day,” the official mentioned, citing low-level cyberattacks in opposition to election web sites or unintended web site outages as potential examples.
“It’s important to remember that such incidents would not affect a person’s ability to cast a ballot,” the official mentioned
Voting machines down in Trenton
All voting machines are at the moment down throughout Mercer County, New Jersey, house of the state capital, Trenton, in accordance to native officers.
Voters ought to nonetheless go to their registered polling station as deliberate, the place they’ll solid their vote on a regular poll and put up it into the machine’s emergency slot, in accordance to a message to residents of West Windsor posted to the township’s website Tuesday morning.
“The Board of Elections has advised the county of issues with voting machines. Poll workers will be on hand to walk voters through the process. The board is working with Dominion, the machine maker, to resolve the issue,” officers wrote in a press release on the county’s Facebook page.
Sunny climate in most battleground states on Election Day
It’s a vibrant and sunny Election Day in lots of battleground states!
Sunny forecasts are in retailer for New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia and Arizona, with solar and clouds in North Carolina.
But rain is in the forecast for Wisconsin, and in Nevada the precipitation might embrace snow.
The Northeast is forecast to have vibrant sunshine and seasonable temperatures as voters solid their ballots, whereas the Great Lakes area could have solar and clouds.
Weather in the Southeast is anticipated to be sunny and heat, with some remoted storms throughout Florida as Subtropical Storm Nicole approaches the Sunshine State’s east coast.
Wisconsin decide received’t order sequestering of absentee ballots
MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin decide on Monday, lower than 14 hours earlier than polls opened, refused to order that navy absentee ballots be pulled apart and sequestered till it may be verified that they have been solid legally, saying that might be a “drastic remedy” that would disenfranchise voters.
The Republican chair of the Wisconsin Assembly’s elections committee together with a veterans group and different voters sued on Friday, looking for a courtroom order to sequester the ballots.
Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Maxwell denied that request for a brief restraining order in a ruling from the bench following a two-hour listening to Monday afternoon.
“That just seems to be a drastic remedy,” he mentioned of sequestering the ballots.
The 2022 midterms are shaping up to culminate in an unpredictable election evening, with latest surveys exhibiting shut fights in a bunch of key races that may decide which social gathering controls Congress.
A couple of factors in both path, inside the margin of error in lots of polls, might be the distinction between Democrats overperforming to maintain no less than one chamber for the subsequent two years — and Republicans working the desk with commanding victories.
In the 50-50 Senate, Republicans want a web achieve of only one seat to seize the majority. In the House, Republicans have 212 members and want to add six to assure a majority.
Here’s a information to a few of the aggressive races wherein polls shut early, which election forecasters say will carry a bigger significance in studying the path of the political atmosphere.
Judge rejects GOP nominee’s request to toss absentee ballots
Wayne County Circuit Judge Timothy Kenny dominated Monday evening {that a} lawsuit by Kristina Karamo, the GOP nominee for secretary of state, to change Detroit’s absentee voting protocols forward of the midterm elections was a “false flag” that sought to “demonize” election employees in the metropolis.
Karamo sued Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey final week to toss absentee ballots except voters current identification, alleging election regulation violations concerning the counting of the ballots.
In his ruling, Kenny mentioned Karamo’s request would current a “clear violation” of constitutional rights, including that her claims sowing doubt on the legitimacy of absentee voting have been “unsubstantiated and/or misread Michigan election regulation.”
“While it is easy to hurl accusations of violations of law and corruption, it is another matter to come forward and produce the evidence our Constitution and laws require,” Kenny wrote. “Plaintiffs failed, in a full day evidentiary hearing, to produce any shreds of evidence.”
How the NBC News Decision Desk calls races on midterm election night 2022
Here’s how NBC News calls races on election evening, the steps it takes to verify results and the solutions to some incessantly requested questions, reminiscent of:
How does NBC News project the outcomes of races?
What kinds of calls and characterizations does the Decision Desk make?
How will NBC News call control of the Senate?
What is the House Estimate, and how will NBC News project control of the chamber?
Highlights from Monday
Just catching up? Here’s what you missed from Monday:
- President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump every delivered closing arguments to voters at marketing campaign occasions in Maryland and Ohio, respectively. Trump teased a major announcement Nov. 15.
- Cobb County agreed to extend the deadline till Nov. 14 for Georgia voters who didn’t obtain requested absentee ballots and who haven’t voted in individual.
- A authorized struggle exploded in Pennsylvania over mail-in ballots.
- The Supreme Court dismissed a Republican problem to this yr’s congressional district maps in Michigan.
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