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"Meanwhile, a multiagency voter-fraud probe was announced last Wednesday by District Attorney Michael McCann, U.S. Attorney Steven Biskupic, the FBI and the Milwaukee police. Government investigators are responding to mounting evidence — an extensive analysis of the November balloting recently published by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, most notably — that many thousands of unlawful votes were likely cast in Wisconsin's largest (and heavily Democratic) city.

Three weeks after the general election, New Mexico's canvassing board officially declared President Bush the winner by 5,988 votes, or less than 1 percentage point. The board certified the Nov. 2 election results Tuesday and said Bush received 376,930 votes, or 49.8 percent, to Democrat John Kerry's 370,942 votes, or 49 percent. Independent Ralph Nader received 4,053 votes, or 0.5 percent. Four years ago, Democrat Al Gore defeated Bush in New Mexico by just 366 votes out of 598,605 cast. Gov. Bill Richardson said in a statement that he would propose changes to state election law to speed up vote...

The final piece in the U.S. election puzzle fell into place on Tuesday when New Mexico became the last state to determine a winner in the Nov. 2 presidential poll, saying George W. Bush won the sparsely populated state. In its official tally released on Tuesday, Republican Bush beat Democratic challenger John Kerry by 5,988 votes, Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron said. The final tally was 376,930 for Bush and 370,942 for Kerry.

Des Moines, IA, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Iowa's final tally shows President Bush defeated Democrat John Kerry by 10,059 votes, the Des Moines Register reported Wednesday

Here are final unofficial vote tallies, released Friday afternoon. President, Bernalillo County John Kerry: 132,404 George W. Bush: 121,610 Ralph Nader: 1,462 President, statewide: John Kerry: 370,457 George W. Bush: 376,577 Ralph Nader: 4,059 Source: Bernalillo County Clerk's Office, The Associated Press

Today is the deadline for counties to complete their canvass of last week's election, and the clerk of the most populous county in the state aims to meet that deadline. "I'm optimistic," Clerk Mary Herrera said. "If I have to be here 24 hours a day by myself entering (data), I'm going to do it." About 85 percent of the canvassing process was completed as of Thursday afternoon, county officials estimated. The hand tally of provisional ballots was expected to be done by this morning. Other remaining work included data entry and running reports on election results. The county canvassing...

IN 2000, the polls had Bush winning the popular vote. He went on to lose it by more than 3.5 million votes. In 2004, pollsters on election eve said the race was "too close to call." The next day, exit polls predicted a comfortable Kerry victory. Then on election night, the Bush-Kerry national popular vote split turned out to be no squeaker, but 51 percent to 48 percent. So are the pollsters all wet?No, just damp. Both in 2000 and in 2004, most polls, including exit polls, were correct within their margins of error. But let's all finally understand just...

Election results by state On election night and in the days since then, we have seen many maps that look like this: The (contiguous 48) states of the country are colored red or blue to indicate whether a majority of their voters voted for the Republican candidate (George W. Bush) or the Democratic candidate (John F. Kerry) respectively. The map gives the superficial impression that the "red states" dominate the country, since they cover far more area than the blue ones. However, as pointed out by many others, this is misleading because it fails to take into account the fact...

If New Mexico is leaning red, it's not because the state is any closer to declaring a presidential winner. It's because some New Mexicans are embarrassed about how long it's taking to get the votes counted. Again. "It's embarrassing to know this state has not been able to count all it's votes," said Tom Torres of Edgewood. "It's not like this is a surprise. We saw it last election." In the 2000 election, it took about a month for the state to determine that Al Gore had defeated President George W. Bush by 366 votes. Election officials said they are...

Northern New Mexico's counties with large percentages of Hispanic voters remain a firm Democratic stronghold, last week's presidential election results show— but at least two northern counties didn't deliver as well for John Kerry as expected. Republican George W. Bush improved his numbers over those of the 2000 election in both Rio Arriba and Guadalupe counties, contributing to a lead of about 8,500 votes... in New Mexico's still-incomplete vote tally. Kerry's share of the vote in Rio Arriba— where more than 70 percent of the population and 80 percent of registered voters are Hispanic— was the smallest for a Democrat...

I've heard that the final absentee vote tally in Wisconsin might give President Bush a win in that state. Anybody have any factual information to share? If President Bush did in fact win Wisconsin, wouldn't it mean that he would have won without Ohio? Curious minds need to know. Thanks...

Linda Vester finally just broke in and said on Dayside....President Bush has just been declared the winner of Iowa's electoral votes....the crowd erupted in applause...it's about time! MSNBC should color the box in on their democracy ice rink sometime around Christmas.

President Reporting: 100% George W. Bush, Rep (i) 745,997 (50.1%) John F. Kerry, Dem 732,780 (49.2%)

Just heard on KABC RADIO...!!!!!!!!!

Are we gonna lose New Mexico?

<p>Just happened a few minutes ago. Just in case anyone might like to know.</p>

IOWA Results With 100% reporting Bush: 745,970 50% Kerry: 732,737 49% "Too close to call"

County clerks waded through provisional ballots Thursday, working toward a final unofficial tally of New Mexico's election results. The Associated Press tally with most absentee votes counted late Thursday had President Bush leading by 8,366 votes. But there were at least 19,500 uncounted paper ballots— so-called provisional and in-lieu-of ballots— statewide, according to a survey Thursday of most of New Mexico's 33 county clerks by The Associated Press. Provisional ballots, required by the 2002 federal Help America Vote Act, allow people to vote even if their name isn't listed at the polling place. In-lieu-of ballots are used by voters who...

OK, there has been some anxiety regarding what happen to NM. I looked at NM state website, and made a comparison between their numbers with Media's number (CNN, C-Span, Yahoo) based on the county reports. My impression after looking at the report posted at 7:47pm at the State website is that the state website a bit behind in updating the figures. Many counties that have 100% precinct reported, are stil listed as less than that in the state website. Here are the breakdown by county that didn't have 100% reported yet: Chaves, 51 reported out of 52 precincts, Bush got...

Latest vote tally shows Bush outpolling Kerry by 746,461 (50.05%) to 732,416 (49.11%).