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Maryland certifies election results showing Biden win

By The Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland officials have certified election results showing Democrat Joe Biden won the state’s 10 electoral votes.

Maryland’s Board of State Canvassers on Friday approved a declaration of results during a meeting held remotely because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Results show 65.4% of votes, or close to 2 million, were cast for Biden in the heavily Democratic state. President Donald Trump received 32.2% of votes.

Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-to-1 in Maryland. In 2016, Trump received 34% of the votes in the state.

A Republican presidential candidate hasn’t won Maryland in 32 years. George H.W. Bush was the last to do so in 1988.

As Guatemala begins high-stakes court elections, agents raid voting sites

By The Associated Press
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Just as Guatemala began to elect magistrates to its highest court on Thursday in a test of strength of its democratic institutions, prosecutors said they raided two voting locations in what lawyers and the country's president said was an attempt to interfere in the elections. The latest action — carried out by the internationally criticized Attorney General's office — reignited tensions in a yearslong battle to root out endemic corruption plaguing the Central American country's institutions. Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo and his anti-corruption allies have often clashed with prosecutors they accuse of rotting Guatemala’s justice system and making politically motivated arrests. The agents who carried out the raid were led by Leonor Morales, a prosecutor sanctioned by the United States for trying to overturn Arévalo's presidential win in 2023. Morales has also previously persecuted judicial officials fighting corruption. She refused to provide more information because it was an open investigation.
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