Iowa officials on Monday were expected to certify a Republican candidate as the winner by six votes of an open seat in the U.S. House, in what is shaping up to be the closest congressional election in decades...
The Minneapolis city clerk said that as of about 5 p.m. Tuesday, there was a roughly 45% registered voter turnout for the entire municipal election, including in-person and absentee voting numbers.
Minneapolis voters were also deciding whether to replace the city's unusual "weak mayor, strong council" system with a more conventional distribution of executive and legislative powers that would give the mayor clearer authority over day-to-day government operations.
