Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has no symptoms and has not tested positive.

Dan Sullivan won re-election in Alaska on Wednesday — putting the Republicans within one seat of maintaining their majority in the U.S. Senate. The Republican incumbent defeated independent challenger Al Gross who was running with the backing of Democrats, meaning control of the Senate will come down to two runoff elections in Georgia between GOP...

Republicans are on track to hold 50 Senate seats going into the Georgia run-offs while Democrats have 48.

Arizona's top elections official on Wednesday said she's received “ongoing and escalating” threats of violence in the aftermath of Joe Biden's win over President Trump.

Frustrated Democrats are venting to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over the party’s failure to retake the majority in the November elections. Schumer (D-NY) was on the receiving end of an extended gripe-fest in two conference calls over the disappointing results in which the Democrats picked up only one seat when Joe Biden won the...

A former Sri Lankan fisheries minister chomped on a raw fish at a Tuesday press conference as seafood sales in the nation have plummeted over coronavirus concerns. “I am making an appeal to the people of this country to eat this fish. Don’t be afraid. You will not get infected by the coronavirus,” Dilip Wedaarachchi...

Longtime GOP adviser Karl Rove will oversee Senate Republicans’ fundraising effort as they fight to keep their majority with the two runoff elections in Georgia, according to a report. The former adviser to President George W. Bush will serve as national finance chairman of the Georgia Battleground Fund, a joint fundraising effort organized by the...

Confronted with a shrunken majority, House leaders are discouraging fellow Democrats from taking jobs with the incoming Biden administration — out of concern that Republicans could take back the chamber in the 2022 mid-term elections, sources told The Post on Sunday. Insiders variously accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.)...

With the balance of power in the US Senate riding on two run-off elections in Georgia, stinging comments have resurfaced made about Israel and Black Lives Matter by one of the Democratic candidates.

LIMA – Peruvian interim President Manuel Merino called for calm as he swore in his new cabinet on Thursday amid protests that have escalated around the country since the abrupt ouster of former leader Martin Vizcarra. Merino, whose cabinet was filled with mostly technocrats, accused some critics planning to run in 2021 elections of inciting...

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has no symptoms and has not tested positive.

Dan Sullivan won re-election in Alaska on Wednesday — putting the Republicans within one seat of maintaining their majority in the U.S. Senate. The Republican incumbent defeated independent challenger Al Gross who was running with the backing of Democrats, meaning control of the Senate will come down to two runoff elections in Georgia between GOP...

Republicans are on track to hold 50 Senate seats going into the Georgia run-offs while Democrats have 48.

Sri Lanka’s health minister has tested positive for coronavirus after she drank and endorsed a sorcerer’s elixir claimed to ward off the disease.

A coalition of legislators are calling on the board to vote against using the Express Vote XL from Election Software & Systems, arguing they’re too expensive and prone to trouble.

“Elections matter, voting matters, and leadership matters,” Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) said.

The US joined Australia, the UK and Canada on Sunday in condemning the recent arrest of dozens of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. Fifty-five people — including American human rights lawyer John Clancey — were rounded up last week for participating in unofficial election primaries for legislative elections, in violation of a Chinese law aimed...

Wisconsin officials on Monday certified President-elect Joe Biden’s win after a partial recount added 87 votes to the Democrat’s narrow margin. Ann Jacobs, the Democratic chairwoman of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, confirmed Biden’s victory over President Trump by 20,695 votes out of about 3.3 million ballots cast. Trump’s campaign paid $3 million this month for...

Prisoners have held protests in recent weeks at several facilities to demand more COVID-19 testing and separate isolation facilities for sick inmates.

Six inmates were killed and 35 injured as guards opened fire during a Sri Lankan prison riot on Sunday, officials said. The prisoners created “unrest” and tried to take control of Mahara prison, located about 10 miles from the country’s capital of Colombo, according to police spokesman Ajith Rohana. Rohana said the unrest devolved into...

The comedic actress, who won acclaim and accolade for portraying fictional Vice President Selina Meyer in the popular HBO political satire series, Veep, pulled out all the stops – and apparent hair dye – spoofing Rudy Giuliani while announcing a virtual fundraiser to encourage voter turnout for the upcoming Georgia Senate runoff elections.

A record 788,535 people have requested ballots ahead of the two run-off elections on Jan. 5 that will decide control of the US Senate, Georgia’s secretary of state’s office tells The Post. The figure, the latest number as of Tuesday morning, amounts to nearly three times the number of ballots requested during the 2018 midterms,...

State Board of Elections records show Gillibrand, who dropped her own White House bid last year, is currently registered to vote at her mother’s house in Albany.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission has approved a recount of presidential votes starting Friday in two large Democrat-dominated counties as President Trump’s campaign seeks to reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s narrow win. The board unanimously approved the partial state recount early Thursday after Republican commissioners blocked a push to revise a manual for election workers. Trump...

Top House Republicans are calling for a congressional probe of the “integrity” of the 2020 presidential elections after alleging “errors and misconduct” in the processing and counting of ballots. The GOP request went to New York Democratic Congress members who head two key House panels, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler and House Oversight Committee Chairwoman...

Arizona's top elections official on Wednesday said she's received “ongoing and escalating” threats of violence in the aftermath of Joe Biden's win over President Trump.

Frustrated Democrats are venting to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over the party’s failure to retake the majority in the November elections. Schumer (D-NY) was on the receiving end of an extended gripe-fest in two conference calls over the disappointing results in which the Democrats picked up only one seat when Joe Biden won the...

A former Sri Lankan fisheries minister chomped on a raw fish at a Tuesday press conference as seafood sales in the nation have plummeted over coronavirus concerns. “I am making an appeal to the people of this country to eat this fish. Don’t be afraid. You will not get infected by the coronavirus,” Dilip Wedaarachchi...

Longtime GOP adviser Karl Rove will oversee Senate Republicans’ fundraising effort as they fight to keep their majority with the two runoff elections in Georgia, according to a report. The former adviser to President George W. Bush will serve as national finance chairman of the Georgia Battleground Fund, a joint fundraising effort organized by the...

Confronted with a shrunken majority, House leaders are discouraging fellow Democrats from taking jobs with the incoming Biden administration — out of concern that Republicans could take back the chamber in the 2022 mid-term elections, sources told The Post on Sunday. Insiders variously accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.)...