Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks has called a Democrat-backed recount of her 2024 House race a waste of taxpayer money while she leads Christina Bohannan by fewer than 1,000 votes.

On this week's Close Up, we break down the process of election recounts in races too close to call and look at President-elect Donald Trump's latest picks for top cabinet and White House positions.

A recount in Iowa Senate District 20 concluded Friday, affirming Republican challenger Mike Pike's narrow win over Democratic Sen. Nate Boulton.

Senate Democrats control just 15 of 50 seats in the Iowa Senate after this month's election, their lowest total in more than 50 years.

The recount in the Iowa District 1 House race between incumbent Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Democrat challenger Christina Bohannan began on Friday.

Just a few weeks after a presidential election prediction in the state of Iowa was dead wrong, top pollster Ann Selzer is resigning from the Des Moines Register Iowa Poll. The highly-regarded Iowa Poll returned a shocking result just three days before the election this year,

Congressional election observers deployed to Iowa after Democrat Bohannan called a recount in the House race against GOP incumbent Miller-Meeks.

Top pollster Ann Selzer is set to retire from The Des Moines Register’s Iowa poll after a shocking presidential survey was so wrong. Just before the election, a poll from Selzer sent shock waves

Boulton congratulated his Republican challenger, Mike Pike. Election results must be certified by the state by early December.

Candidates had until 5 p.m. Monday to submit their requests for a recount – in state law, required within three days after a canvass, which was Friday for some counties.

FairVote, a nonpartisan advocacy group that promotes voting reform, found that it's extremely rare for a recount to reverse the outcome of a race.