The race for president remains undecided as neither Donald Trump nor Joe Biden has reached the 270 electoral votes needed to win. Key states, including Pennsylvania and Michigan, are still counting millions of absentee ballots.

Technology plays an integral role in how we vote, how votes are counted, and the overall security of free and fair elections. In 2016, that process was tested as never before. Russia led the list of foreign countries seeking to influence and disrupt the U.S. election.

A record-shattering 3.4 million of Ohio’s nearly 8.1 million registered voters cast their ballots this year before Election Day. As polls open on the final day of voting, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose predicts total voter turnout could be as high as 75%.

Two associates of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder last week pleaded guilty to federal charges in an alleged $61 million bribery scheme to pass a nuclear bailout bill. Hours later, First Energy, the company believed to have bankrolled the scheme, fired its CEO and two top executives.

This episode originally aired on Oct. 20, 2020. American voters don’t elect a president on November 3. They vote to decide which political party electors will cast their state’s vote in the Electoral College. The present system has been in place since 1804 and has come under increasing scrutiny because the process enables an election to the presidency without a majority of the popular vote. That’s how Donald Trump won in 2016.

This episode originally aired on Oct. 22, 2020. This October offers up some spectacular naked-eye views of our brightest planetary neighbors, such as Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn. But the star of the show is Mars, which swoops in for its closest approach to Earth until 2035.

This episode originally aired on Oct. 28, 2020. More Ohioans, 2.2 million, have already cast their vote this election, surpassing the 2016 early vote count of 1.8 million. Voting by absentee ballot has doubled from 2016, and voting in person has more than tripled from four years ago.

More than 73 million Americans have cast their ballots early in this high-stakes presidential election taking place in the midst of a pandemic. President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are campaigning in states they need to win ahead of Tuesday’s election.

This episode originally aired on September 24, 2020. The pandemic has changed everything, including our language. Words that we never used before have become commonplace, and in some cases, new words have been created to describe new experiences.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists as “high risk” the traditional Halloween activity of collecting candy handed out door to door. The COVID-19 pandemic has led many central Ohio communities and parents to reimagine Beggar’s night festivities with a focus on prevention.