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    A Lawyer Watched As Technicians Sorted Through Ballots in Riviera Beach, Fla., On The Saturday After Election Day. Close Margins Forced Recounts in The State

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    A federal judge delayed certification of Georgia's election results due to concerns about provisional ballots and voting system security. Stacey Abrams ended her bid for governor while denouncing systemic voter disenfranchisement. Legal actions were initiated in Florida over close Senate and governor races and whether mail-in ballots were improperly rejected, with recounts to be completed by Sunday. Elsewhere, civil rights lawyers sued Pennsylvania over its absentee ballot receipt deadline and many in Kansas mistakenly believed they still needed a birth certificate to register due to a recently struck down law, which a Democratic official said was intended to discourage voting. Close elections highlighted flaws in the system and led to partisan legal challenges.

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    A federal judge delayed certification of Georgia's election results due to concerns about provisional ballots and voting system security. Stacey Abrams ended her bid for governor while denouncing systemic voter disenfranchisement. Legal actions were initiated in Florida over close Senate and governor races and whether mail-in ballots were improperly rejected, with recounts to be completed by Sunday. Elsewhere, civil rights lawyers sued Pennsylvania over its absentee ballot receipt deadline and many in Kansas mistakenly believed they still needed a birth certificate to register due to a recently struck down law, which a Democratic official said was intended to discourage voting. Close elections highlighted flaws in the system and led to partisan legal challenges.

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    A federal judge delayed certification of Georgia's election results due to concerns about provisional ballots and voting system security. Stacey Abrams ended her bid for governor while denouncing systemic voter disenfranchisement. Legal actions were initiated in Florida over close Senate and governor races and whether mail-in ballots were improperly rejected, with recounts to be completed by Sunday. Elsewhere, civil rights lawyers sued Pennsylvania over its absentee ballot receipt deadline and many in Kansas mistakenly believed they still needed a birth certificate to register due to a recently struck down law, which a Democratic official said was intended to discourage voting. Close elections highlighted flaws in the system and led to partisan legal challenges.

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    A Lawyer Watched As Technicians Sorted Through Ballots in Riviera Beach, Fla., On The Saturday After Election Day. Close Margins Forced Recounts in The State

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    A federal judge delayed certification of Georgia's election results due to concerns about provisional ballots and voting system security. Stacey Abrams ended her bid for governor while denouncing systemic voter disenfranchisement. Legal actions were initiated in Florida over close Senate and governor races and whether mail-in ballots were improperly rejected, with recounts to be completed by Sunday. Elsewhere, civil rights lawyers sued Pennsylvania over its absentee ballot receipt deadline and many in Kansas mistakenly believed they still needed a birth certificate to register due to a recently struck down law, which a Democratic official said was intended to discourage voting. Close elections highlighted flaws in the system and led to partisan legal challenges.

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    Broader worries about the handling of provisional ballots in Georgia and the security of a

    computer system led a federal judge to delay certification of the state’s results. On Friday, the
    Democrat Stacey Abrams ended her bid for governor in the race against Mr. Kemp, while
    denouncing what she called “systemic disenfranchisement, disinvestment and incompetence.”

    Legal actions were initiated in Florida, where close margins forced recounts in the races for
    Senate and governor, and questions arose about whether eligible mail-in ballots were improperly
    rejected. Election officials were to conclude manual recounts by Sunday.

    A lawyer watched as technicians sorted through ballots in Riviera Beach, Fla., on the
    Saturday after Election Day. Close margins forced recounts in the state.
    Scott McIntyre for The New York Times

    Elsewhere, accusations of voter suppression flared. Civil rights lawyers sued Pennsylvania,
    claiming its requirement that absentee ballots be received on the Friday before Election Day cost
    thousands of people a chance to vote. In Kansas, where a court recently struck down a law
    requiring proof of citizenship for new voters, many mistakenly believed they still could not
    register without a birth certificate, according to Democratic voting organizers.

    “I think the law did what it was intended to do,” said Johnny Dunlap, the Democratic Party
    chairman in Kansas’s Ford County, “and that was to discourage people from voting.”

    With the nation polarized along party lines and many contests fiercely fought, tight races threw a
    harsh light on weaknesses in the system, fueling partisan accusations and legal challenges.

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