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A group of 24 Republican legislators in Pennsylvania has filed a federal complaint against President Joe Biden, Governor Josh Shapiro, and representatives from the Pennsylvania Department of State, alleging that they have usurped legislative authority by changing voter registration and election rules. The lawsuit was reported by the Epoch Times. According to the legislators, the Elections Clause and the Electors Clause of the United States Constitution give state legislators the sole constitutional right to determine election procedures, and the president, governor, or other executive officials, such as the secretary of state, have no authority to create, rewrite, or disregard laws...

A seat in the New Hampshire House of Representatives flipped from Republican to Democrat by the narrowest of margins after a recount....

Mr. Regan, a Republican, said in an interview with The Hill on Thursday that his daughter’s denunciations were unsurprising and implied she had been brainwashed at university. “A lot of students when they go off to these liberal university campuses … she went to the University of Colorado in Boulder — and you know, they just kind of get sucked into this Marxist, communist ideology and she and I just don’t see eye to eye when it comes to the whole socialism, communism, Marxist philosophy,” he said. He told the Hill that “her big thing has to do with the...

Targets included Arizona and Illinois, with Russia again a prime suspect. A Homeland Security official has confirmed that hackers have targeted the voter registration systems of more than 20 states, the Associated Press reports. That disclosure puts hard numbers on a similar statement made earlier in the week from FBI Director James Comey. Comey stated that hackers were scanning voter database systems, “which is a preamble for potential intrusion activities,” and had attempted to gain access to some systems. Among states that have been targeted are Illinois and Arizona. In Illinois, hackers reportedly successfully downloaded information on as many as...

Madison — In contests that drew national attention, Democrats lost control of both the state Assembly and Senate in Tuesday's voting, giving Republicans control of all of state government for the first time since 1998. The stunning victory amid high unemployment and economic turmoil in the state represented the first time a political party had won both houses of the Legislature in a single day of voting since 1938, when Republicans swept out the waning Progressive Party. The new GOP majorities will have the potential power to pass tax and spending cuts sought by Governor-elect Scott Walker as well as...

Governor - Haslam (R) will replace Bredeson (D) US House 4th District - DesJarlais (R) will replace Davis (D) US House 6th District - Black (R) will replace Gordon (D) US House 8th District - Fincher (R) will replace Tanner (D) Tennessee State Senate - GOP +1 seat - now GOP 20 seats, Dems 13 seats Tennessee State House - GOP +9 seats - now GOP 59 seats, Dems 39 seats R-e-d-i-s-t-r-i-c-t-i-n-g!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

President Obama has returned to the campaign trail. He is appearing in television advertisements in New Jersey this week on behalf of Gov. Jon S. Corzine, the embattled Democrat struggling to win a second term. And he campaigned on Thursday evening alongside R. Creigh Deeds, the candidate for governor fighting to keep Virginia in the Democratic column. The New Jersey and Virginia races for governor are the only big-ticket political contests for 2009. And fairly or not — Mr. Obama’s advisers are not alone in arguing that the significance of these races does not extend beyond the boundaries of either...

With the field reduced to two players, the latest Rasmussen Reports election poll shows Democratic Governor Ed Rendell narrowly leading Republican Lynn Swann, the former Pittsburgh Steeler, 46% to 43%.

Posted on Thu, Nov. 04, 2004 Bailey overcomes dog bite to retain House seat Associated Press ST. GEORGE, S.C. - Rep. George Bailey celebrated twice Tuesday - first when he got his final rabies shot after being bitten by a dog while campaigning and again when he retained his House seat. Bailey had to run hard after Democrats targeted him for defeat following his switch to the Republican party in March. He beat challenger Lachlan McIntosh by 473 votes in the seat that covers a good part of Dorchester County. Election Day also marked the end of rabies treatment for...

There is a former farmer. There's a son of the man who invented McDonald's Styrofoam hamburger boxes. And there is Dino Rossi - or maybe not. They are among the 11 governors elected Wednesday in a slate of state elections almost completely lost amid the national fixation on Ohio. But political scientists have often turned to state races to take the true pulse of the country, and Tuesday's elections provided a grass-roots amplification of the nation's partisan split. Of the 11 states that chose governors Tuesday, two switched from Democrats to Republicans, while two flipped the other way - with...

BERLIN: Germans began voting on Sunday in two state elections, with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats widely expected to suffer crushing defeats for their handling of the stagnant economy. Opinion polls indicated his SPD would lose power in Lower Saxony, Schroeder's home state, and fail to oust the conservative-led government in the central state of Hesse, which includes the financial capital Frankfurt. Polling booths opened at 8 am (0700 GMT) and are set to close 10 hours later when first exit polls will be broadcast. Ten million people are eligible to vote in the two states, in the first test...

** 2003 KENTUCKY ELECTIONS UPDATE ** Time is running out for anyone who wants to file for a State Constitutional Office this year in Kentucky. The deadline is Tuesday, January 28th, at 4pm. You have two weeks left. Folks, if you go to the Kentucky State Board of Elections , you will see that, right now, there are NO Republicans filed for the offices of State Auditor , State Treasurer , and State Agriculture Commissioner . Only ONE Republican (Jack D. Wood, Valley Station) has filed to run for Attorney General and only ONE Republican (Trey Grayson, Ft. Mitchell) has...

No joke: Floridians could elect one or more Libertarians to state office on Nov. 5. A whopping 82 Libertarian Party candidates have filed to run -- mostly for the Florida House of Representatives. "It's a first," says party strategist Mark Eckert, candidate for District 119. And before you accuse him -- or me -- of going bonkers, there are at least two reasons you should take the party seriously. First, Libertarians are likely to surmount the most difficult hurdle -- getting their names on the ballot -- because they have taken advantage of a little-known loophole in state election law....