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Florida marijuana legalization ballot projected to fail
ABC News projects that the Florida ballot measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana will not pass.
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Election 2024 updates: Trump begins selecting cabinet positions
Last updated: Tuesday, November 12, 2024 5:26PM GMT
Just days after former President Donald Trump was projected to have won the presidency, Trump's transition team operation has begun, with transition co-chairs confirming that he will be selecting personnel to serve under his leadership in the coming days.
Trump is also the projected winner in Arizona, a state the former president flipped after losing it to Joe Biden in 2020.
Trump's projected win in the vital swing state marks a sweep of the battleground states.
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Track electoral vote count and results map for the presidential election
See how the balance of power is playing out as election results come in:
MORE | 2024 election: Track electoral vote count and results map for the presidential election
Nov 06, 2024, 1:32 AM GMT
Stein projected to be next governor of North Carolina
ABC News has projected Attorney General Josh Stein to be the next governor of North Carolina.
MORE | Live updates: North Carolina election results
Stein, like Gov. Roy Cooper, catapulted from the attorney general's office to the Executive Mansion.
The win makes Stein, 58, the first Jewish governor of the Tar Heel State. He defeated his Republican challenger Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who was hoping to become the state's first Black governor.
MORE | Stein projected to be next governor of North Carolina, ABC News says
ByMary Radcliffe
Nov 06, 2024, 1:31 AM GMT
Trump is projected to carry South Carolina
Unsurprisingly, ABC News projects that Trump will win in South Carolina, a state that has been reliably red in presidential races since at least 1984. (Republicans won the state in 1980 also, but not by a very large margin.)
Also in the Palmetto State tonight, a ballot referendum that would prohibit noncitizens from voting in state and local elections, one of a raft of such measures around the country. With 23% of the expected vote reporting, the measure looks almost sure to pass: 84% of voters have voted in favor, with 16% opposed.
ByMatt Gutman, Olivia Rubin and Devin Dwyer
Nov 06, 2024, 1:21 AM GMT
Voters waiting up to 7 hours to vote in Bethlehem, Pa.
Voters in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, were waiting in line for as long as seven hours to cast their ballots at a polling location near Lehigh University, an official confirmed to ABC News.
The official -- Scott Hough, the vice chair of the Northampton County Election Commission -- said the wait was due to a broken voting machine in one precinct.
A judge denied Pennsylvania Democrats' request to keep this polling location open until 10 p.m., but will allow any voters who were in line at 8 p.m. to cast their ballots.
The state's Democratic Party petitioned the judge to grant the extension, arguing the Northampton County Board of Elections "has failed to provide sufficient voting machines and personnel to accommodate" voters.
"Long wait times resulting from inadequate equipment and personnel have caused electors to potentially be unable to vote within the time for opening and closing of polls," the petition stated.
