When reporters at The Associated Press are covering the election , horse race polling numbers don’t take center stage. The reason for this is that the AP believes that focusing on preelection polling ...

The City of Mentor has two No. 1-ranked football teams in Ohio. Lake Catholic has ascended to the No. 1 spot in Division IV in this week’s Associated Press rankings. The Cougars (7-0) join ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Here are the latest Ohio high school football rankings from the Associated Press with a big game ...

It’s up to governments to run and administer elections and maintain the official record of who won and by how much.

The big effort begins once polls close, when approximately 4,000 AP vote count reporters fan out across voting precincts and ...

Election night won't be all nail-biters. Chances are some winners will be declared before a single vote has been tallied just ...

Harris led by 2 points in Michigan (48 percent to 46), and a point in Nevada (48 percent to 47), Pennsylvania (48 percent to ...

As thousands of counties and towns report vote totals, it can be hard to figure out when the results reported so far will ...

The gap between when California and Florida are able to finalize their count is the natural result of election officials in ...

Voter fraud does happen occasionally. When it does, we tend to hear a lot about it. It also gets caught and prosecuted.

Americans will cast roughly 160 million ballots by the time Election Day comes to a close — in several different ways, ...

In primary elections, a handful of states, mostly in the South, go to runoffs if no candidate receives at least 50% of the ...