And the ballots go to ... 5,810 Oscar voters

The ballots are in the mail for the 5,810 members of Hollywood's elite who get to vote on the Academy Awards.

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Obama elected 44th president

, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president of the United States.

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Long lines, glitches greet early voters

Early voting has proven extraordinarily popular this year, setting records across the country as voters brave hours-long waits to cast their ballots in advance.

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10 choke points for Election Day

In the year 2000, we suffered through Florida's hanging chads and lingering lawsuits. In 2004, we agonized over the long lines at polling places, plus Ohio's provisional ballots. On Election Day this year, what problems will emerge as the choke points for the voting process?

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Obama's campaign urges counting of military votes

Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign is encouraging state elections officials to ensure that all military personnel serving away from home are able to vote, after a Virginia law threatened to toss some absentee ballots aside.

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Class voting hacks prompt call for better audits

The election was rigged.

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Judge orders English ballot printed in Puerto Rico

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered election officials to add an English translation to Spanish-only ballots for November elections.

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Puerto Rican statehood party seeks English ballots

A political party that favors making Puerto Rico the 51st U.S. state said Tuesday it will demand an English translation of a November ballot.

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Confusing ballot designs still plague elections

The solution should have been a no-brainer, voting experts say. After all, it was a badly designed ballot that enflamed the 2000 election meltdown and introduced the vagaries of chads to the political lexicon — pregnant, hanging and otherwise.

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House defeats bill funding paper ballots

The House on Tuesday rejected legislation providing federal funds to help states deciding to switch to paper ballot voting systems for the November elections.

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Ballot Shortages a Continuing Problem

It's a simple question with no simple answer: Why do polling places across America keep running out of ballots when it's no secret that this contentious primary season keeps breaking voter turnout records?

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Could Bill Clinton be vice president?

WASHINGTON - In response to our FAQ, readers have posed hundreds of questions, wanting to know what happens after the political parties choose their presidential candidates.

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Handwritten Ballots Mark Tight N.M. Vote

You've waited patiently in line to vote, only to be told your name can't be found on registration rolls. Worse, they've run out of ballots at your polling station.

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Envelope, Please: Oscar Ballots Mailed

Thousands of Oscar nomination ballots were mailed out Wednesday, heralding the official start of Academy Awards season.

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Judge Orders Ohio Ballots Preserved

A judge ordered Ohio's county elections boards Thursday to preserve ballots from the 2004 presidential election — a move activists hope will help prove allegations of fraud.

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Supporters of President Karzai set up hundreds of fictitious polling sites . . . according to senior Western and Afghan officials here.

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U.S. chopper accidentally dumps Afghan ballots Boxes being carried in 'sling load' beneath Chinook fall onto mountains

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"Iran's Guardian Council has offered opposition leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi a deal to settle the" election controversy.

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The United States is one of few democratic nations that place on individuals the entire burden of registering to vote on individual citizens. Today, one-quarter to one-third of all eligible Americans remain unregistered — and thus are unable to cast ballots that will count.

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Californians could legally possess up to one ounce of pot and cities could sell and tax the drug under an initiative marijuana advocates want to place on the state's 2010 ballot.

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One out of every four ballots requested by military personnel and other Americans living overseas for the 2008 election may have gone uncounted See more irresistible headlines

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The proliferation of state questions should not be blamed on divided government, but on legislators looking to have voters do their work for them.

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Even the audit log system on current versions of Premier Election Solutions' (formerly Diebold's) electronic voting and tabulating systems --- used in some 34 states across the nation --- fail to record the wholesale deletion of ballots.

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In Venezuela, it's illegal to eat your vote. Rebellious voters could go to jail if they protest leftist President Hugo Chavez by munching on paper voting machine receipts in a referendum on Sunday on allowing him to run for re-election.

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The Canvassing Board overseeing the vote recount for Minnesota's tightly contested U.S.

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In Minnesota, Democrat Al Franken's bid to unseat Republican Sen. Norm Coleman hangs by fewer than 200 votes. An initial recount began Nov. 4. Now, election officials plan to meet Tuesday to review thousands of challenged ballots that may help decide the outcome.

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Election workers combing the Minneapolis Election Warehouse have found an envelope with less than 20 uncounted ballots. The ballots may be from Minnesotans serving overseas in the US Military. The envelope has not ben opened.

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"There are votes in Minnesota that aren't even being accounted for, much less being counted," spokesman Andy Barr told reporters at a press conference at Franken headquarters in St.

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Representatives from the campaigns of Sen. Norm Coleman and Al Franken have been challenging ballots across the state. It's your turn to play election judge. Tell us how you would rule in the case of these challenged ballots. Use this Minnesota state statute as your guide.

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When 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.

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Will The Bleeding Stop? Spin and More Spin....

Dow closes at 8282.86 Wednesday Dow closes at 8835 Thursday Dow at 8663 10:24 Friday

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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.

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Armed 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.

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350,000 small farmers are set to benefit from fast-changing attitudes toward food aid, spurred by spiraling food and fuel costs.

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AIG is too interwoven into the infrastructure of the country. It has been reported that they control greater than 95% of the insurance covering the United States Airports.

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Of the approximately 25,000 such ballots, 10,000 are in the Al Franken stronghold counties of Hennepin, Ramsey and St. Louis.

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An Associated Press analysis of the nearly 25,000-vote difference in Minnesota presidential and U.S. Senate race tallies shows that most ballots lacking a recorded Senate vote were cast in counties won by Democrat Barack Obama.

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Obama, 'Let the Good Times Roll'

I can't wait to see if the economy increases for average Americans under Obama. Under Bush the economy only had extreme inflation for average Americans that was not properly documented under the way the government measures inflation.

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President-elect Barack Obama began moving Wednesday to build his administration and make good on his ambitious promises to point the United States in a different direction, as his commanding victory reordered the American political landscape and transfixed much of the nation and  …

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