election day

Democrats will control the Senate and, it seems, Republicans, the House in the 118th Congress starting on Jan. 3, but the current 117th session still ...

ALBANY (TNS) — After last week’s flattened red wave, Republicans are at long last questioning their bond with Donald Trump. And for good reason: Candi...

As early voting in Cattaraugus County closed for a seventh day on Friday, 356 voters had cast ballots at one of the two county early voting sites. Dem...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Now that the state Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of mail voting, it’s time for critics to stop whining about it and...

New York has never been much of a leader in conducting easy, efficient elections, but there are a few ways that this year’s June 28 primaries will fin...

Spoken word performer Gil Scott-Heron famously said: “Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.” This truism came to mind recently as ...

OLEAN — Absentee ballots could overturn preliminary results in one city election, but the odds are stacked against an upset. Incumbent independent Ver...

LITTLE VALLEY — The Cattaraugus County Board of Elections will offer extended hours during the two weeks prior to Nov. 2 General Election, Election Co...

Just six months ago — it seems like so much longer — many Democrats were supremely confident about their prospects in the 2020 election. Some saw Joe ...

ALBANY (TNS) — A package of election reform bills passed the Democrat-controlled state Senate last wee k, which would make changes to absentee voting ...

ALBANY — Policies favoring secrecy over transparency have meant that New Yorkers will be among the last Americans to learn the final vote tallies in t...

ALBANY — Democrats have clinched a supermajority in the State Senate, making the announcement Monday as they gained enough seats to give them veto-pro...

No one expected Donald Trump to handle a defeat in the 2020 election well. It was predictable he’d deny that he really lost and allege the vote was ri...

WELLSVILLE — Concerns over COVID-19 didn’t stop members of Trinity Lutheran Church from sharing the bounty from their Election Day Dinner. Members of ...

Losing a presidential election isn’t easy for any candidate to absorb. ”There are times when all I want to do is scream into a pillow,” Hillary Clinto...

ALBANY (TNS) — State Senate Deputy Majority LeaderMichael Gianarison Tuesday announced legislation that would allow absentee ballots to be counted onE...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s fruitless calls Thursday morning to “Stop the count” underscored a major problem for the president: He needs som...

WASHINGTON — Democrats went into Election Day hoping to reclaim the White House and majorities in both chambers of Congress in a victory that would de...