Lawmakers in several Republican-led states have been looking to exert more authority over state and local election offices.

Only scattered challenges to certification of the midterm election have been reported in the United States, and not a single one is based on any problems with the accuracy of the results.

Voters did not encounter widespread problems on Election Day.

Lucy Simon, the composer who received a Tony nomination in 1991 for her work on the long-running Broadway musical “The Secret Garden,” has died.

The Trump-endorsed Arizona lawmaker who won the GOP nomination for secretary of state is the latest candidate to advance to the November ballot for a post overseeing state elections while denying the results of the last one.

A rural New Mexico county’s initial refusal to certify its primary election results sent ripples across the country last week.

Through the federal program, officials expect to have this deployed in at least nine additional states by November. Officials said the effort was just the latest in steps taken to shore up cybersecurity since the 2016 presidential election. But cybersecurity experts say the threat has hardly been dulled. David Levine with the Alliance for Securing Democracy told committee members that many local election offices lack the resources to boost cybersecurity defenses. The coronavirus has exacerbated the problem by forcing a number of states to divert election security funding to cover other unanticipated costs stemming from the pandemic, Levine said.