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Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog, Gene Mauch and Danny Murtaugh are among the former managers who will be on the ballot when the Hall of Fame Veterans Committee votes next month.
The NBA has released its All-Star ballot and is allowing fans to vote by text messaging for the first time.
Michigan voters could decide whether to reduce automobile, home and business insurance premiums by 20 percent if a proposal qualifies for the 2010 statewide ballot.
Voters across New York will be asked next week to pull the lever on a land swap for a power line in the northwestern corner of the Adirondacks.
This is my 12th year on the Hall of Fame Ballot but unlike in some previous years I won’t be at home waiting for the results to be announced on Monday. I’ve done that before but I’m not doing it again.
Voters put a stop to same-sex marriage in California, dealing a crushing defeat to gay-rights activists in a state they hoped would be a vanguard and putting in doubt as many as 18,000 same-sex marriages conducted since a court ruling made them legal this year.
Where's my absentee ballot? Why did they take my name off the voter registration rolls? What happened to the signup card I filled out weeks ago? With just one full business day left before Election Day, last-minute questions like these are flooding in to election offices and voter advocacy groups.
There are three things every voter should do before they head to the polls, election experts agree: Check to make sure you’re registered to vote at your current address, find out where your polling place is and find out what ID you’ll need when you go to cast your ballot.
Presidential candidate Barack Obama is using his popularity to help give down-ballot Democrats a boost, with plans to back House and Senate candidates in radio commercials during the campaign's final days.
Voters put a stop to same-sex marriage in California, dealing a crushing defeat to gay-rights activists in a state they hoped would be a vanguard, and putting in doubt as many as 18,000 same-sex marriages conducted since a court ruling made them legal this year.
Election watchdogs fear that a long-standing feature of ballots in North Carolina could lead thousands of straight-party voters to mistakenly fail to vote for president and possibly produce a replay of the postelection battle in Florida eight years ago.
Voters will get to decide whether to repeal a new Ohio law cracking down on how much interest can be charged on payday loans.
A television ad created by opponents of a ballot measure that would allow embryonic stem-cell research in Michigan likens such work to the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study.
Who is running for president? In an upstate New York county, hundreds of voters have been sent absentee ballots in which they could vote for "Barack Osama."
Every Illinois voter must be notified at the polls next month of misleading language on the ballot, a judge ruled Friday.
A judge has ruled that Illinois must stop mailing election ballots to members of the military and hold off on sending absentee ballots to everyone else because they contain "misleading and "inaccurate" language.
The payday loan industry is bankrolling ballot issue campaigns in Ohio and Arizona to preserve the average 391 percent annual interest rates they charge, as the two states become the focus of industry watchers and consumer advocates.
Supporters of a ballot measure that would loosen Michigan's restrictions on embryonic stem cell research took a big step toward placing it on the November ballot.
- Imagine a pool of eight million potential new voters in this November’s presidential election, an untapped resource waiting for presidential candidates to woo them.
The late Pat Tillman, a former Arizona State linebacker who gave up a professional football career to join the military, is among 19 players up for election to the College Football Hall of Fame for the first time this year.
Republican voters in Ohio will vote twice for the presidential candidates on a single ballot in Tuesday's primary.
Four California tribes won the right Tuesday to add thousands of slot machines, as voters approved a major expansion of Indian gambling that prompted one of the state's costliest election battles.
Billy Martin, Marvin Miller and Doug Harvey are among 20 former managers, executives and umpires on the new Hall of Fame ballots to be considered by the revamped Veterans Committee when it votes next month.
Are state workers enabling bad government?The State Worker column in today's fiber and cyber Bee notes that we've entered a 12-week stretch of four-day work weeks for state employees because of holidays and "Furlough Fridays." Our sense is that, for several reasons outlined in the column, the public may not notice.
In case you have not noticed, today is Election Day. Your instructions follow: GO VOTE! Share your experiences
Hamid Karzai faces claims of fake polling | The AustralianAFGHANS loyal to President Hamid Karzai set up hundreds of fake polling sites where no one voted but hundreds of thousands of ballots were still recorded for the President in last month's election, reports said yesterday.
U.S. chopper accidentally dumps Afghan ballotsA U.S. military helicopter carrying ballot boxes packed with votes from last week's Afghan election accidentally dumped some of them somewhere over the rugged mountains of Nuristan.
Voters are sometimes faced with attempting to choose the "lesser of two evils" when voting for political candidates. The problem seems to stem from political "committees" choosing candidates which the public then gets to "choose from".
Obama's Southern Problem—And Ours"The New South," wrote journalist Robert Scheer in the 1970s, "is the Old South with air conditioning." Unfortunately, even 30 years of central home air hasn't cooled the white heat of the South.
I cannot help but wonder why, after multiple special elections, the politicians in California i.e. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Pete Wilson, and Paul McCauley continue to go against the wants and the needs of the state.
Ahmadinejad Declared Winner of Disputed Iran Election - washingtonpost.comRiot police clashed with supporters of presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in the center of Tehran Saturday evening after the government declared that he had been defeated in a landslide by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Sales tax times threeAbout 4,000 voters are expected to cast ballots in Tuesday's city sales tax election, said Ellen Thames, assistant secretary of the Muskogee County Election Board.
Ex-DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe Offered Bribe to Drop Out of 19 Battleground States in '04 ElectionAssuming this is true, then obviously they did not offer Nader enough money! AND I am pretty sure that lots of Democrats would willingly have chipped in a buck (or a sawbuck) to get Nader off the ballot!
Angry electorate left to make Calif. budget callsCalifornia residents will get the chance to decide what happens to their tax dollars in a special election next week.
English-only bill to go on ballotOklahoma voters will decide whether English should be the state's official language.
Same-sex marriage debate resurfaces in N.C. North Carolina lawmakers and religious leaders spoke out Tuesday in support of an amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as a union of a man and woman.
5000 rejected Minn. ballots get another lookThe judges in Minnesota's Senate election trial threw Norm Coleman a lifeline, opening the door to adding nearly 5,000 rejected absentee ballots to a race Democrat Al Franken leads by just 225 votes.
FPPC cracks down on use of ballot measure panel moneyIn a 4-0 vote, California's campaign watchdog agency approved new rules Thursday to limit how politicians can use ballot measure committees. I say it is about time. Though I am sure the way it is written it will have loopholes that will be taken advantage of.
Coleman goes to court over Senate recountNorm Coleman fulfilled his vow to file a lawsuit after the Minnesota State Canvassing Board certified the results of the 2008 US Senate race recount, which showed Democratic Farm Labor candidate Al Franken with a 225 vote lead.
Human nature is such that we tend to hear and see just what suits us. We pick and choose the Good the Bad or the Ugly and tend to shut our mind to the rest. However, knowledge is power. Once we manage to identify these blinds spots, Understanding comes rushing in.
Serious Error in Diebold Voting Software Caused Lost Ballots in California CountyElection officials in a small county in California discovered by chance last week that the tabulation software they used to tally votes in this year's general election dropped 197 paper ballots from the totals at one precinct.
Expectations of a CitizenI expect my government to accept that democracy relies upon what citizens can see, examine, challenge, and debate. Those in power must let go of the delusion that democratic life is somehow safer wrapped in lies. Government must stop hiding information.
Comedian Wanda Sykes: 'I'm Proud To Be Gay'"Everybody that knows me personally, they know I'm gay," she added. "But that's the way people should be able to live their lives." But the November 4 passing of Prop. 8, which bans same-sex marriages in the state, made her feel "attacked" -- and pushed her into action.
Crisis Spreads to Tech Sector as Sun Plans to Cut Work Force - NYTimes.comWhen will the job losses stop? The result to the economy is going to be leveraged 10 fold for every dollar each person takes out of the economy as a result of job loses.
Dow closes at 8282.86 Wednesday Dow closes at 8835 Thursday Dow at 8663 10:24 Friday
ABC News: Bush, Obama Discuss Economy, Foreign Policy. Whitehouse visit.The president and Obama talked war and financial crisis. Laura Bush and Michelle Obama talked about raising daughters in the nation's most famous house.
Obama Looks To Be First Wired PresidentArmed with millions of e-mail addresses and a political operation that harnessed the Internet like no campaign before it, Barack Obama will enter the White House with the opportunity to create the first truly "wired" presidency.
U.N. moves to lift up African farmers - Africa - msnbc.com350,000 small farmers are set to benefit from fast-changing attitudes toward food aid, spurred by spiraling food and fuel costs.
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