COLUMBUS — The Ohio legislature voted Wednesday to eliminate a four-day post-election grace period that allowed several thousand mail-in absentee ballots across the state to be counted in the 2024 presidential election. The vote came weeks after the state was threatened by the U.S. Department of Justice.

MENTOR, Ohio — Two local races in Mentor remain too close to call nearly a week after Election Day. Both Lake County races have razor-thin margins that demonstrate how every vote matters in local elections.

Voters in Georgia State Senate District 35 — spanning parts of Fulton, Douglas, and Cobb counties — voted in a special election. Democrats Jaha Howard and Roger Bruce are headed to a runoff next month.

Election day is Saturday, November 15 and we've got deadlines, information and the Acadiana ballots here. Early voting was last week; here are the numbers statewide and in Acadiana:

As reported in the Daily News over the weekend, the City Council is scheming to vote themselves a pay raise in the waning days of their current term, which ends on Dec. 31. We say scheming because

RCV didn’t cause any particular candidate to win or lose, Jeanne Massey writes. What it did do was ensure that the mayors elected in Minneapolis and St. Paul are the candidates who could build the broadest support across the electorate.