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A growing number of Republican lawmakers have joined President Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the election, pledging to reject the results when Congress meets next week to count the Electoral College votes and certify President-elect Joe Biden’s win

Audio of a call between President Donald Trump, members of his staff and Georgia state officials obtained by NBC News confirms the president begged, bullied and threatened Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in an effort to overturn the state’s election results. NBC’s Tracie Potts reports.

President Donald Trump pressured Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to “find” enough votes to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state’s presidential election, repeatedly citing disproven claims of fraud and raising the prospect of “criminal offense” if officials did not change the vote count, according to a recording of the conversation.

An election systems worker who was driven into hiding by death threats has filed a defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s campaign, lawyers Rudolph Giuliani and Sidney Powell, and some conservative media figures and outlets.

States that haven’t yet certified their votes for president or that face legal challenges are rushing to resolve any remaining disputes by Tuesday, NBC News reports.

With your attention rightly focused on the hotly contested presidential battle between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, or perhaps even some of the various Senate races taking place across the country, it’s possible you might have overlooked a few other key happenings that occurred on Election Night. Here’s a quick rundown of five things you may have missed.

Voters across the country, including in Illinois, are casting their ballots in an election unlike any other, ultimately deciding who will be the next president of the United States, among several races.

NBC News will not project a winner in a race until after the last scheduled poll closing time in that race.

Voters across the country, including in Illinois, are casting their ballots in an election unlike any other, ultimately deciding who will be the next president of the United States, among several races.

Both Democrats and Republicans have hundreds of lawyers ready to fight the results in key battleground states, including Florida and Pennsylvania, if the election outcome is uncertain. And the legal dispute are already underway in several key counties over which votes can be counted. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain offers an update.

In the age of coronavirus and absentee voting the vote-counting timeline has dramatically changed, and there aren’t uniform practices for counting those ballots. That makes it difficult to predict when certain key battlegrounds, much less a national result, could be called.

On the eve of Election Day, John Fortier of the Bipartisan Policy Democracy Project explains what you need to know to interpret the presidential race results as they begin rolling in on Election Night. What do the historic surges in early voting mean for President Trump and Joe Biden, and how can the Electoral College hand the White House to...