With nearly six weeks to go before a runoff election for Chattanooga mayor, the battle between rivals Tim Kelly and Kim White will be to win over the supporters of the other 13 candidates who didn't make it past this week's election.

Chattanooga City Council races on Tuesday showed community support for incumbent council members who were re-elected, with runoffs set for April to fill two open seats, in District 2 and District 5.

Tuesday's crowded Chattanooga mayoral field will narrow down considerably in an April runoff between the top two voter-getters from Tuesday's city election, business and nonprofit leaders Tim Kelly and Kim White.

The polls are open in Chattanooga, and voter turnout seems to be right on par with what was anticipated, local election officials say.

A woman from Trion, Georgia, is being investigated for allegedly submitting a ballot for her deceased husband in the Nov. 3 presidential election.

Voting in Georgia two years from now will look different for several reasons. For one, the state and the rest of the country hopefully will be on the other side of a global pandemic and not in the middle of one.

Republicans in Georgia's state legislature have introduced a flood of bills aimed at rolling back voting access after record turnout led to Democratic wins in the presidential contest and two U.S. Senate runoffs.

New polling shows Kim White gaining on Tim Kelly in the Chattanooga mayoral race, days before the election.

Tennessee officials say 28 of 95 counties now have voting machines that leave a paper trail, and more are planning to buy them.

Officials in Georgia on Tuesday voted to fire the man in charge of overseeing elections in the state's most populous county, which was frequently in the spotlight last year after a disastrous primary and attention from then-President Donald Trump.

The district attorney investigating whether former President Donald Trump should face charges for attempting to pressure Georgia's elections chief into changing the results of the presidential race in his favor has a reputation as a tough courtroom veteran, not only as a prosecutor but also as a defense lawyer and judge.

Georgia election officials say they're referring for possible criminal prosecution a potential voter fraud case involving a group recently linked to one of the state's new Democratic U.S. senators — The New Georgia Project.

Donald Trump's lawyers have a simple objective as they open their defense at the former president's impeachment trial: Don't lose any Republican votes.

Dire harm from Donald Trump's false and violent incitements will vex American democracy long into the future unless the Senate convicts him of impeachment and bars him from future office, House prosecutors insisted Thursday as they concluded two days of emotional arguments in his historic trial.

As U.S. House managers made their case for the impeachment of Donald Trump, Fulton County's top prosecutor on Wednesday launched a wide-ranging criminal investigation into the former president.

Absentee and turnout numbers in the Chattanooga municipal election on Wednesday far exceeded past first-day numbers, as citizens began early voting to pick a new mayor and city council.

Jenny Hill says she plans to maintain her Hamilton County school board seat even if she is elected to the Chattanooga City Council.

Lawyers for Donald Trump on Monday blasted the impeachment case against him as an act of "political theater" and accused House Democrats on the eve of the former president's trial of exploiting the chaos and trauma of last month's Capitol riot for their party's gain.

The Chattanooga Police Department has cleared an officer accused of damaging and removing a City Council candidate's campaign sign.

The three best-funded Chattanooga mayoral candidates have raised more than $800,000 to date, with about a month until the March 2 election.

A fiercely divided House tossed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off both her committees Thursday, an unprecedented punishment that Democrats said she'd earned by spreading hateful and violent conspiracy theories.

House Republicans decided Wednesday to stand by two GOP lawmakers who have polarized the party, voting to retain Rep. Liz Cheney as their No. 3 leader and saying they'd fight a Democratic push to kick Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off her committees.

Republicans in Georgia's state Senate are moving quickly to limit who can vote and how after Democrats won the presidential election and two U.S. Senate runoffs in the once reliably red state.