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• House Democratic leaders come out in support of CR
• Arizona voters could determine control of the Senate
• College protests live updates: Columbia protesters defy 2 p.m. deadline to disperse
• Biden says debt ceiling bill meets test of 'bipartisan compromise'
• Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders elected first female governor of Arkansas
• Ballot machines fixed in Maricopa County after reported issues
• NPR's live special coverage is starting soon. Here's what to expect

Evers was helped in the closing days of the campaign by a visit from former President Barack Obama, who also recorded a TV ad on the governor's behalf. Evers' campaign relentlessly attacked Michels over his long support for banning abortion without exceptions for rape or incest. On Monday afternoon, House Democratic leaders said they are considering supporting the Johnson strategy. Typically, the House will vote on a "rule," a procedural vote that paves the way for bills to be passed with a simple majority. Rules are usually passed by the majority party, but Republican leaders are using a different tactic due to conservative opposition. House lawmakers on Tuesday passed Speaker Mike Johnson’s stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown, likely punting the GOP’s spending fight until after the holidays.

House Democratic leaders come out in support of CR

Susannah Goodman, director of election security for the government watchdog group Common Cause, says some polling sites are seeing their lines of voters grow because of issues with voting machines, including ballot scanners that need fixing. The expected vote is the total number of votes that are expected in a given race once all votes are counted. This number is an estimate and is based on several different factors, including information on the number of votes cast early as well as information provided to our vote reporters on Election Day from county election officials. OregonOregon hasn’t had a Republican governor in four decades, but Democrat Tina Kotek, a former state representative, is facing a tougher campaign than expected from Republican candidate and former state Rep. Christine Drazan.

Arizona voters could determine control of the Senate

Letting the program lapse, even if it could be restarted later, would require additional spending on outreach and re-enrollment, Carbajal said. He also worries that people who benefit from it will feel a sense of whiplash and lose trust in the federal government. Twenty-five Republicans voted against the fourth bill, which included measures that could lead to a ban on TikTok in the United States and that would redirect funds from seized Russian assets to help aid Ukraine. Democrats put up a big vote — 174 — in favor of this bill, which was intended to sweeten the overall package for conservatives.

College protests live updates: Columbia protesters defy 2 p.m. deadline to disperse

Senate leaders are likely to try to come to some kind of agreement on allowing senators a series of amendment votes to speed things up. The amendments would almost certainly all fail, to avoid blowing up the deal, but they would give senators a chance to vote their opinions and get their colleagues on the record, as well. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will vote against the debt ceiling bill, he announced today. McCarthy continued to praise his debt ceiling agreement with Biden to reporters, saying there is nothing in the bill that GOP members should be "negative about." McCarthy's sentiments were echoed by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., who suggested that the debt ceiling was just "the beginning" of an effort to change how money is spent in Washington. Trump had called on Republicans to allow a default if they didn't get "EVERYTHING THEY WANT (Including the 'kitchen sink')" in a post on Truth Social this month.

Hours after the reported problem, a statement was posted on the county's Twitter page saying the issue was resolved. We'll be here blogging the latest developments and analysis all night, and you can tune in to live special radio coverage starting at 8 p.m. NPR's Life Kit has even more tips for dealing with a stressful news cycle and protecting yourself from election disinformation.

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Healey, Massachusetts' attorney general, never trailed in the polls, campaigning on expanding affordable housing and improving public transportation. Sanders, 40, becomes the first woman elected to lead the solidly-Republican state and succeeds outgoing term-limited Gov. Asa Hutchinson. She’s due to be inaugurated in January, 16 years after her father Mike Huckabee left office after a 10-year stint as governor. Democrat Maxwell Frost, 25, has won his race in Florida's 10th district, marking the first time a member of Generation Z has been elected to the House of Representatives. You can listen to live special coverage on your NPR station, on the NPR One app or on NPR.org.

Ballot machines fixed in Maricopa County after reported issues

Four years ago, Claudia Aleman and her family had only one way to get online — through their cellphones. Without internet service on a computer, her youngest daughter couldn’t get homework assignments in on time, her parents couldn’t keep up with online doctor visits, and the English classes she wanted to sign up for were out of reach. “One of our biggest changes from last cycle to this cycle was making the election integrity department its own department with its own dedicated budget and focus,” Alvarez said. “Litigation seems to now be a fixture of each parties’ political and electoral strategies,” Seifter said. They quickly realized that wasn’t the case as the 2022 midterms also generated a high number of election-related lawsuits.

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Republican Kari Lake, running in her first-ever campaign, rode the endorsement of former President Donald Trump to victory in Arizona’s GOP primary. The former local news anchor ran a brash and loud Trump-like campaign, boasting that she drove a stake through the heart of the state’s conservative establishment. "I certainly know that representation matters and it's important that we have diversity on our Supreme Court and our Senate," Beasley said. “This is actually what the majority of Arizona counties do on Election Day all the time,” County Recorder Stephen Richer said.

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In an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll from late October, 36% of those polled said inflation was top of mind when they thought about issues they would be voting on. Included in that is gas prices, which have tracked with Biden’s approval rating and is something the White House watches very closely. Wisconsin, for example, doesn't allow election officials to begin processing mail ballots until polls open on Election Day.

Members of both parties, along with intelligence officials, have worried that Chinese authorities could force ByteDance to hand over American user data or direct the company to suppress or boost TikTok content favorable to its interests. TikTok has denied assertions that it could be used as a tool of the Chinese government and has said it has not shared U.S. user data with Chinese authorities. The House’s overwhelming vote to ban TikTok unless it is freed from Chinese control suggests that a ban might be coming soon.

Just as important in that initial reaction was what Zelensky did not say. He said he thinks there could have been less restrictive ways to go after the company that wouldn’t result in a total ban or threaten free speech. Dozens of states and the federal government have put in place TikTok bans on government devices.

The company has indicated that it would likely go to court to try to block the law if it passes, arguing it would deprive the app’s millions of users of their 1st Amendment rights. “If we had the vote today in our conference, he would not be speaker today. He's already a lame duck, he can't raise money, everyone knows it,” Greene claimed. Massie, a Kentucky Republican, added that they are giving Johnson the chance to resign, although the speaker has insisted he won’t. Massie added he believes a motion to vacate — a rarely used procedural tool to remove the House speaker — will happen eventually. Ukrainian servicemen told CNN the US House vote to approve military aid provides a much-needed shot in the arm.

She’s also reiterating her support for abortion rights and has welcomed out-of-state guests like former President Barack Obama to help paint her Republican opponent as too extreme. "The bottom line is elections officials prioritize accuracy over speed always on election night when tallying the unofficial results." Wisconsin's chief election official, Meagan Wolfe, says significant safeguards are in place to ensure a fair election.