Politics
Local Races
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Democrats: We'll have veto-proof edge in State Senate
Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins expressed confidence the count of absentee ballots in a Westchester race will give Democrats their 42nd seat.
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The wins strengthen Democrats hold on the State Senate and could lead to a supermajority.
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Brown was able to maintain his lead after the absentee ballots were counted.
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Absentee ballots helped Sen. James Gaughran overcome an election night deficit.
Sen. Kevin Thomas (D-Levittown) along with other other Nassau County Democrats gathered on Tuesday to celebrate his win after a count of absentee ballots reversed a lead by Republican Dennis Dunne.
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Absentee ballots may make a difference in state-level races as well.
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The pay is modest — typically $13 an hour — and the pressure, particularly in a year like this, is considerable.
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Democrats so far falling short in flipping open legislative seats
GOP leads in 7 of 10 open Senate seats and held all 10 in the Assembly.
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Mailed-in ballots are being kept in locked rooms under police guard, and every step in handling the paper ballots is done by bipartisan teams, according to detailed security requirements in state law.
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Jesse Garcia, Suffolk's GOP chairman, and Joseph Cairo, head of Nassau's Republican Party, are old hands at getting out the vote.
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As the votes are still being counted in states across the country, supporters of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden expressed concerns about the integrity of the process.
National Races
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President-elect Joe Biden is building out his administration with several key picks for national security and foreign policy roles.
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The Board of State Canvassers, which has two Republicans and two Democrats, confirmed the results on a 3-0 vote with one abstention.
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The New Zealand prime minister became the latest world leader to congratulate Biden on his election victory, saying she offered to share her nation's expertise on dealing with the coronavirus.
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Anthony Blinken, 58, served as deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser during the Obama administration and has close ties with Joe Biden.
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The president should accept his loss because his team has not come up with any evidence of widespread election fraud, they said.
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The Associated Press has reported that Biden could name his nominee for secretary of state or treasury secretary this week.
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The judge said of what the Trump campaign presented, "In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state."
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Republicans in Congress are engaged in a risky but calculated bet that once Trump has exhausted his legal challenges to the election, he will come to grips with his loss to Biden. But the opposite is happening.
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With Trump showing no signs of conceding, the warnings from public health officials, intelligence experts and bipartisan lawmakers about the consequences of delaying the presidential transition have intensified.
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President-elect Joe Biden is pushing Congress to approve billions of dollars in emergency COVID-19 assistance before he takes office.
What to know about the results
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Minor problems happen during every election. But Tuesday's voting appeared largely free of any major glitches.
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Here is an alphabetical state-by-state look at how and why The Associated Press is calling U.S. states in the 2020 presidential election.
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The large number of absentee ballots won't begin to be counted until seven days after Election Day.
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The national popular vote alone does not guarantee victory.
Newsday Opinion
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This election will be remembered as one of the most consequential in our nation's history, given the problems we have and the course we must set to avoid being engulfed by them.
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With the window and patience narrowing for election challenges, more Republicans are speaking up as some ridicule the Trump legal team's performance in and out of court.
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In a meltdown of sorts that made no one look good, dug-in helpers gave the impression Trump is out to nullify voters' decisions, if not the electoral process.
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Trump's ludicrous spin games keep alive supporters' distrust of his election loss. Real-world efforts are making little headway in his favor as his term runs out.
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As advisers tell it, Biden wants to move the crisis-saddled country past a focus on Trump even as some clamor for an investigation of the outgoing president.
More Politics
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President-elect Joe Biden is pushing Congress to approve billions of dollars in emergency COVID-19 assistance before he takes office.
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With Trump showing no signs of conceding, the warnings from public health officials, intelligence experts and bipartisan lawmakers about the consequences of delaying the presidential transition have intensified.
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The former U.S. senator, a fixture of Long Island and D.C. politics, tested positive a week ago and self-quarantined, his office said. He went to the hospital Friday.
