contests
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The group also urged the state to enable most close races to be called by the Friday after election day and let counties, in extremely close contests, prioritize counting those ballots first.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Rather than a shootout or penalty kicks, the championship was decided by a single moment of quality in one of the tournament’s tightest contests.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
They’ve won state and local contests in Kentucky and Georgia and are on the ballot in Florida, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
The formal declaration of Fujimori's win brings one of Peru's tightest leadership contests of all time to a close and ushers in the Andean nation's ninth president in a decade.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Cooter saw I was starting to believe and said, “And if family breeding contests don’t count as some up-north, big-city learning mess, I don’t know what do.”
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
