Election reform advocates had hoped for a big year at the ballot box. That's because a historic number of states were considering initiatives for ranked choice voting or to end partisan primaries.

Democrat Derek Tran leads Rep. Michelle Steel, a Seal Beach Republican, by 519 votes in the race to represent California’s 45th congressional district, according to the tally released Friday evening from the Orange County Registrar of Voters.

Gov. Ron Desantis has set the special election to replace former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz with a primary election on Jan. 28 and a general election on April 1. The Florida Department of State announced the special election timeline Friday afternoon.

EXCLUSIVE: Director Matt Tyrnauer is doing a rapid update of his new documentary Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid to reflect Donald Trump’s win in the presidential election. Deadline has learned the filmmaker quickly assembled a crew to shoot a new interview with the famed Democratic political consultant to include as a coda to the film.

Here are updated vote counts for some of these congressional, state legislative and city races. They’re based on the latest tallies from the L.A. County registrar or California Secretary of State offices and reflect results through shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump plans to assemble investigative teams at the Department of Justice to search for evidence in battleground states that fraud tainted the 2020 election, the Washington Post reported on Friday,

With a motion for civil contempt already looming over him in Washington, D.C., another judge on Friday warned Rudy Giuliani that “on pain of contempt” he must comply with requests from the Georgia election workers he defamed to surrender his assets squirreled away in an increasingly controversial storage unit on New York’s Long Island.

The former “View” co-host said she felt she couldn’t support Trump or Harris — and wrote in a surprising choice instead.

Lansing — The criticism, drama and refusals to concede that marked Michigan's last two statewide elections were missing Friday, as the Board of State Canvassers certified Republican Donald Trump's 80,156-vote win over Democrat Kamala Harris in the presidential contest.

Outnumbered' panelists sound off after the State Department used taxpayer money to fund therapy sessions for federal employees after the presidential election.

Who won the second of two open seats on the MSU Board of Trustees had been cast into doubt soon after the election as a result of a data entry error.