FILE - A canvas observer photographs Lehigh County provisional ballots as vote counting in the general election continues, Nov. 6, 2020, in Allentown, Pa. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

FILE - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Trey Grayson, right, talks with state Rep. Damon Thayer, R-Georgetown, during a Republican dinner in Georgetown, Ky., May 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke, File)

FILE - Andrew Hougardy, a worker at the King County election headquarters in Renton, Wash., views an "alternative format" ballot held up by a co-worker during ballot processing and counting, Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

FILE - An election worker sorts vote-by-mail ballots at the Miami-Dade County Board of Elections, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

FILE - The Associated Press logo is displayed at the company's headquarters on April 18, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

FILE - With the Florida results in his hand, Deputy Managing Editor David Scott, left, who helps oversee The Associated Press' coverage of elections, calls that race in favor of President Donald Trump on Election night at the Washington bureau of the AP, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division Air Assault, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, from Fort Campbell, Ky., help volunteers distribute water, food, toiletries, and other aid to residents in Maggie Valley on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP)

FEMA employee Jirau Alvaro works with Daniel Mancini, doing a report on the damage to his property on Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024 in rural Buncombe County, near Black Mountain, N.C. (Robert Willett/The News & Observer via AP)