Tag: Elections

Hacker altered voter information on at least one occasion in a county database. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Hacking into state, local voter databases worse than previously stated: Report

Anna Giaritelli · June 22, 2017 4:44 pm

The California Democrat was asked several questions about her leadership after Democratic complaints about another special election loss. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Nancy Pelosi: I’m a ‘master legislator’ who is ‘worth the trouble’

Al Weaver · June 22, 2017 4:41 pm

A House Democrat said Thursday that Nancy Pelosi's time as a leader of the Democrats is over, as Democrats have been stuck in the minority since 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Democrat: Nancy Pelosi’s time has ‘come and gone’

Pete Kasperowicz · June 22, 2017 11:44 am

Given the record-setting money spent on the race, it was not a fair bellwether of midterm outcomes. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Beltway Confidential

In Iowa speech, Trump right to celebrate Ossoff’s defeat but wrong to say it was ‘by a lot’

Emily Jashinsky · June 22, 2017 12:50 am

The announcement came after the Republican-led House passed a bill Wednesday that will make it easier to fire VA employees in an effort to boost accountability. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump to nominate top Senate staffer for VA deputy secretary

Daniel Chaitin · June 22, 2017 12:30 am

If the vote was a referendum on the president, the message from a winning margin of voters in the district was probably this: Give him a chance. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Beltway Confidential

Byron York: Georgia vote says more about Trump now than House in ’18

Byron York · June 22, 2017 12:23 am

Last night's loss in Georgia's 6th District after the most expensive race in history has renewed calls for Pelosi's ouster. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Democrats question Pelosi’s leadership, agenda after special election rout

Susan Ferrechio · June 21, 2017 9:37 pm

The party's loss in the Georgia special election raised new questions about whether Pelosi could face another challenger.
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats grumbling about Pelosi’s leadership after Georgia loss

Josh Siegel · June 21, 2017 9:19 pm

Gianforte pled guilty to a misdemeanor physical assault charge after body slamming a Guardian reporter to the ground the night before the special election for Montana's U.S. House seat. (AP Photo/Bobby Caina Calvan)

Montana Democrats send newly sworn-in Greg Gianforte an orange jumpsuit

Matthew Trunko · June 21, 2017 9:10 pm

The bad news is that there arenât that many other Republican-held super-high-education districts like this one. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

In Georgia’s 6th, Democrats couldn’t capitalize on an unusually well-educated electorate

Michael Barone · June 21, 2017 7:26 pm

Both Johnson and Rogers agreed they knew Handel was poised to win about three weeks out, when early voting began. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Beltway Confidential

Republicans celebrate successful special election season

Emily Jashinsky · June 21, 2017 5:41 pm

A computer science professor told the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday that voting machines that create an electronic record of the voters' decisions are open to fraud and computer hacking. (Ty Wright/Bloomberg)

Computer expert: Some voting machines can be directly hacked

Todd Shepherd · June 21, 2017 4:21 pm