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Votes are tallied during a manual recount of ballots in the City Council District 5 race between incumbent Mykey Arthrell and challenger Grant Miller, Nov. 17, 2022, in Tulsa, Okla. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP, File)

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Don't count on a recount to change the winner in close elections this fall. They rarely do

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER STEPHEN OHLEMACHER - Associated Press
Tue,10/08/24-2:04PM, 14 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the American electorate so evenly divided, there will be elections in November close enough that officials will have to recount the votes. Just don’t expect those recounts to change the winner. They rarely do, even when the margins are tiny.
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Mia Lemon, 13, an eighth grader at Skyline Middle School, marks Nevada as a blue state as she counts ballots cast by her fellow students during the school's mock presidential election Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, in Harrisonburg, Va. (Nikki Fox/Daily News-Record via AP, File)

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What is the Electoral College and how does the US use it to elect presidents?

By MARY CLARE JALONICK MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press
Tue,10/08/24-2:08PM, 28 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 because of the Electoral College. So did George W. Bush in 2000. Even when neither captured the popular vote.
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Caitlyn Person of Brattleboro, Vt., surrounded by her two children, Ellie Person, 9, and Wyatt Findlay-Person, 1, casts her ballot at the polling station in Brattleboro on Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP)

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How the AP is able to declare winners in states where polls just closed

By ROBERT YOON ROBERT YOON - Associated Press
Tue,11/05/24-6:16PM, 176 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press declared winners Tuesday in some states where polls had just closed, and in some cases before any votes had been released.
How is that possible?
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Tito Jackson, a member of the famed Jackson 5, poses for a portrait in Los Angeles, July 24, 2019, to promote his solo project, a new version of his 2017 song "One Way Street." (Mark Von Holden/Invision/AP, File)

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Tito Jackson's funeral is held at cemetery where brother Michael and father Joe are buried

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tue,11/05/24-5:34PM, 75 Reads
GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) — A funeral was held for Tito Jackson at the same Southern California cemetery where his brother Michael Jackson and his father Joe Jackson are buried.
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