Elections
The latest Elections coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Politics section.
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AP sources: Biden to add Buttigieg, Granholm to Cabinet
President-elect Joe Biden is expected to pick his former rival Pete Buttigieg as secretary of transportation and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm as energy secretary, according to four people familiar with the plans.
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Georgia to audit one county’s signatures on ballot envelopes
Georgia's secretary of state on Monday announced an audit of signatures on absentee ballot envelopes in one county after receiving a report that officials there may not have properly checked signatures.
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Sen. Perdue visits Dalton for first day of early voting in Georgia
U.S. Sen. David Perdue was in Dalton on Monday evening as part of his nine-leg flyover tour to kick off early voting in Georgia.
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Hunter Biden subpoena seeks info on Burisma, other entities
A subpoena seeking documents from Hunter Biden asked for information related to more than two dozen entities, including Ukraine gas company Burisma, according to a person familiar with a Justice Department tax investigation of President-elect Joe Biden's son.
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Trump loses Wisconsin case while arguing another one
President Donald Trump lost a federal lawsuit Saturday while his attorney was arguing his case before a skeptical Wisconsin Supreme Court in another lawsuit that liberal justices said "smacks of racism" and would disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters only in the state's most diverse counties.
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EXPLAINER: Dismissed election case pushed debunked claims
The elections lawsuit pushed by President Donald Trump and dismissed by the U.S. Supreme Court was filled with claims that failed to withstand basic scrutiny.
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Rising Latino voters could be force in Georgia Senate races
As Georgia heads into two key runoffs that will determine control of the U.S. Senate, Democrats are hoping to count on Latino voters who helped tilt the state blue in November.
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Critics of Electoral College push for popular vote compact
When the Electoral College meets Monday, its detractors hope it marks the beginning of the end of a system that twice this century has vaulted the loser of the popular vote to the presidency.
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How Atlanta’s politics overtook the suburbs, too
The suburbs of Cobb County, Georgia, boomed during white flight on the promise of isolation from Atlanta.
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EXPLAINER: Baseless claims fill Trump-backed election case
A lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to subvert the will of the voters who elected Joe Biden president over Donald Trump makes a barrage of claims that don't hold up under basic scrutiny, no matter how relentlessly Trump and his allies promote the case and push state lawmakers to support it.
