Control of Congress and the White House hangs in the balance on Nov. 5, but don’t expect election night to be all nail-biters ...

Americans will cast roughly 160 million ballots by the time Election Day comes to a close — in several different ways, ...

The big effort begins once polls close, when approximately 4,000 AP vote count reporters fan out across voting precincts and ...

The key to a close race in Michigan is to wait for Wayne, Oakland, and Washtenaw counties to release significant batches of ...

The Constitution sets out broad principles for electing a national government and leaves the details to the states.

The 2024 elections are expected to be among the closest and potentially most contested in American history. AP’s democracy and election teams are forging ...

In every U.S. election since 1848 AP has counted the vote and declared the winners. As Nov. 5 approaches, David Scott, the AP ...

The increase in livestreaming the election process, an operation conducted by local governments nationwide, reflects a ...

The Elections Top 25 aims to help make sense of it all by providing a list of the Top 25 people, places, races, dates and ...

With no single U.S. government agency or federal commission that tallies results and declares winners, AP has stepped in to ...

AP VoteCast captures the views of voters — whether they vote in person on Election Day or weeks ahead of time — by beginning to interview registered voters several days before Election Day. Those ...

A jailed leader of a prominent independent election monitoring group in Russia appeared in court on Wednesday as his trial ...