An election worker processes mail-in ballots for the June 2, 2026 California state primary election at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center on June 5, 2026 in City of Industry, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) California often takes days or even weeks to tally votes after its elections, a product of measures to protect voters and a deluge of mail ballots dropped off on Election Day. Incomplete vote totals reported in the hours after polls close don’t always reflect final results. None of this is evidence of fraud. But President Donald Trump has spent more than a week baselessly alleging malfeasance in California’s June 2 primary election, in which votes were still being counted as of June 11, offering a window into how he may approach the November midterm elections. Trump has claimed repeatedly, without evidence, that Democrats are stealing the election, even though the state is a party stronghold. California’s long count is a well-known feature of its e...
The chamber of the Alabama House of Representatives in the Alabama Statehouse is seen on April 8, 2026. (Brian Lyman/Alabama Reflector) Republican voters in a northwest Alabama House district will choose between a former city official and a travel ball coordinator to represent them in the State House. Voters in House District 17, which includes Lamar, Marion and Winston Counties, will choose between Phillip Segraves, the former mayor of Guin, who received 3,616 (49.72%) votes in the May 19 GOP primary, and Micheal Beck, a travel ball coordinator, who had 1,936 (26.62%) votes in official returns. Beck said in an interview Friday one of the main issues in the race has been gambling. “Every dollar, every dime spent on gambling is money taken away from putting food on people’s table,” he said. “Because you go look at this thing, the people that are gambling the most are the people that need the money the most, because they’re trying to hit it big. And so what it does is it ma...