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Weeks after Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman was criticized over her poor voting record, U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina tried to fend off a similar line of questioning by owning up to her spotty past.
A new law meant to protect the voting rights of deployed troops and other Americans overseas is forcing at least a dozen states to consider holding their primaries earlier or to negotiate another plan that federal officials will accept.
U.S. troops and other American voters overseas will get more time to send in their ballots and more electronic access to voting forms under legislation Congress passed Thursday.
To vote again, text your choice (1, 2, 3, 4) to 622639. Standard text messaging rates apply and voting ends on Tuesday, October 20 at 5pm EST.
A U.S. Senate committee plans to review potential problems in the sale of an Ohio company's voting-machine unit to its market-leading rival.
The NAACP is registering voters at prisons in Maine, one of just two states that allow all inmates to vote while behind bars, in what is apparently the nation's first such statewide drive.
A voter advocacy organization asked the U.S. Justice Department Tuesday to undo the sale by Diebold Inc. of its voting machine business, saying the transaction promotes a monopoly.
Germans each have two votes in the country's Sept. 27 parliamentary election — one for a directly elected representative and the other for a party.
The Justice Department has opened an internal inquiry into its handling of a case of alleged voter intimidation by members of the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia.
Academy Awards voters are going to have to put extra effort into their choices for best picture.
The government would help states track absentee ballots and verify to voters that their votes are actually received and counted under legislation that passed the House on Thursday.
Legislation to remove some of the red tape that causes the ballots of thousands of military personnel to be lost or uncounted won the approval of a Senate panel Wednesday.
The WNBA says Indiana Fever forward Tamika Catchings has received the most votes for next week's All-Star game.
Manny Ramirez dropped one spot to seventh place in All-Star voting among NL outfielders with four days remaining in balloting for starters.
Boston's Kevin Youkilis has moved back in front of the Yankees' Mark Teixeira with two days left in AL balloting for starters for the All-Star game in St. Louis on July 14.
Kevin Youkilis has taken a slim lead over Mark Teixeira in a back-and-forth race to be elected the starting American League first baseman for the All-Star game.
Albert Pujols has edged past Chase Utley for the race to be the National League's top All-Star vote-getter.
The Yankees and Red Sox were already going head-to-head before their much-anticipated third series of the season Tuesday night.
Suspended slugger Manny Ramirez has dropped to sixth among NL outfielders in latest fan voting for starting spots in the All-Star game.
Tampa Bay third baseman Evan Longoria leads all AL players in fan voting for All-Star spots, more than doubling the total of perennial starter Alex Rodriguez.
The Justice Department has rejected Georgia's system of using Social Security numbers and driver's license data to check whether prospective voters are citizens, a process that was a subject of a federal lawsuit in the weeks leading up to November's election.
Suspended slugger Manny Ramirez has dropped in the latest round of fan voting for the All-Star game, falling to fifth among NL outfielders.
For the last time: It shouldn’t be much of a shocker that Kris Allen won “American Idol,” and it should not come as a surprise that voting blocs might have been part of the process because blocs happen regardless. They’re just not always so noticeable.
A few overeager AT&T employees brought demo phones to "American Idol" viewing parties in Arkansas and helped fans text their votes, but their actions did not affect the outcome between native son Kris Allen and Adam Lambert, the company said Wednesday.
They built a new digital voting system, but the voters didn't come.
NY village gets new voting system to aid HispanicsNY village gets new voting system to aid Hispanics WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge is imposing an unusual new election system on a suburban New York City village after finding the existing system was unfair to Hispanics.
NEWS ITEM – Portland, ME, November 4, 2009 (AP) -- In an election that had been billed for weeks as too close to call, Maine's often unpredictable voters repealed a state law Tuesday that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed.
Virginia's Elections Are UNCONSTITUTIONAL?!?!Yes, Virginia, your elections are unconstitutional, and frankly, no one in power gives a damn! Check it out if you want to know why the government doesn't listen to the voters any more.
Police called in to NY-23 polling stations because of voter intimidation by teabaggers!I just got off the phone with former state Democratic Chairwoman June O'Neill, who informed me the police had been called to at least two polling sites in St. Lawrence County due to overzealous electioneering (O'Neill called it "voter intimidation") by Doug Hoffman supporters.
In case you have not noticed, today is Election Day. Your instructions follow: GO VOTE! Share your experiences
.Starship Troopers is a science fiction novel written by Robert Heinlein. There was also a movie. I was discussing this recently and was struck by the political system of the fictional world federation.
California lawmakers rarely defy party lines, analysis finds It's more likely to rain in Death Valley on any given day than it is for a California legislator to vote in opposition to the majority of his or her party on any given bill, a new Bee analysis shows.
Newsvine contributor Nearing seeded an article discussing how the German High Court has apparently banned electronic voting. Predictably the first comment to this article was that we should only have paper ballots, which is a common enough position on this subject. Pe …
Exclusive: New Digg Voting Feature To Launch (Screenshot)So what is it? It's not the "Real Time Digg" relaunch that will integrate data from Twitter and other sources.
Ballot tips: Do it in pen, not sauce Some tips on how to make sure your absentee ballot counts For anyone who has ever taken the SATs, an absentee ballot should be a no-brainer: fill out the bubbles firmly to ensure your mark is dark, control your pen strokes, fold it neatly, sign the envelope and mail it back.
support Discharge Petition for House Resolution 554 - (72 hrs for us to READ legislation before it is voted on)House Resolution 554 would amend the House Rules to require that ALL non-emergency legislation be posted on the Internet for 72 hours before it could be considered on the House floor.
How to Make Voter Registration Accessible to All CitizensAfter the 2008 election, voter registration has become a focal point for legislators and advocates from all ends of the spectrum. Whichever way it is sliced, the number of registered eligible voters has still declined since 2004.
How Gordon Brown could retain power after the electionVernon Bogdanor sums up PM Brown's position, and the level of votes the Tories and David Cameron must garner at the general election in May 2010 to win.
Sometimes it's possible to give voice to bigotry by simply asking a question. A question calls for a response. In Facebook there have been a series of these kinds of questions in the form of surveys. The latest question to make the rounds:
Your electronic vote in the 2010 election has just been boughtAre we truly a democracy? With voting fraud rampant in the U.S., how can we remain a free people?
Rasmussen Reports (August 30, 2009) – 57% Would Like to Replace Entire Congress:
The Tyranny of the Majority, vs the Unanimity of LibertySome people try to say that a majority vote is as close as you can reasonably get to consensual government, and therefore free society, but they're wrong.
Disgruntled Japanese Prepare to Votehe recession's latest victim in Japan may not be corporate earnings but the political careers of the ruling party in the country's parliament.
U.S. helicopter dumps Afghan ballots - Afghanistan- msnbc.comU.S. chopper accidentally dumps Afghan ballots Boxes being carried in 'sling load' beneath Chinook fall onto mountains
While listening to the news and the commercials and reading the comments from Newsviners about the candidates running for office (especially the recent presidential race), I have often wondered what would happen if none of the candidates won.
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".
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