UP DATE...Minnesota board expected to announce Al Franken winner

January 5, 2009Update"Minnesota board expected to announce Al Franken winner By AMY FORLITI – 1 hour ago MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The state Canvassing Board was poised to certify the results of the recount in...

What's in a name?: South Carolina is a de-facto early-voting state

Forget those official reports about "absentee voters" only. South Carolina is a de-facto "early voting" state. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures "Absentee and Early Voting" Web page, only...

Absentee voting allows everyone to participate

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - The 2008 presidential campaign has entered the home stretch as Election Day quickly approaches. Soldiers and family members eligible to vote are being encouraged by the Army to take...

Military Ballots Being Rejected in Virginia

"Fairfax County Registrar Rokey Suleman is disqualifying an overwhelming majority of the military federal write-in absentee ballots received in his county on the basis that no address had been given for those...

NY election mix-up: 'Osama' on the ballot

"TROY, N.Y. - 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.""

'Stealing Ohio's Election', Nonpartisan registers encourage Obama Votes

"To the people of the great state of Ohio, welcome to day five of "they're stealing your election." As you might have heard, the Ohio Democrat secretary of state decided to bend the law and allow a...

How to Vote in Ohio 2008

2008-09-30:"Some Ohio citizens may find it easier to vote this election thanks to recent rulings that blocked two Republican tries at vote suppression. In one case, Republicans challenged same day registration...

Ohio Voters Head to the Polls

A vote in Ohio is going ahead today amid a controversy over the voting procedures in the state. "With the credit crisis roiling Washington, Wall Street and the presidential campaign, voters in the key battleground state of Ohio cast their first ballots amid a controversy over...

Ballack a doubt for EURO final

  It appears Spain's not the only one with injury problems. Ballack will be sorely missed if it turns out he can't play. On the hand, it wouldn't be the first time a team manager played mind games before a...

White Voters Civil Rights Violated By Black Dems

The times are changing. It seems the undercurrent of racisim is colorblind. Can you imagine if this was the other way around? I guess we would be subjected to the usual lynching photos? "MACON - With the Noxubee...

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Rare stamp may be sealed in Florida ballot box

"An absentee ballot was mailed with what may have been a rare stamp worth as much as $200,000 -- the famous Inverted Jenny -- but the envelope is in a box that by law can't be opened. Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom discovered the stamp while reviewing absentee...

Absentee Florida ballot sent with precious stamp (Reuters)

" MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida voter may have unwittingly lost hundreds of thousands of dollars by using an extremely rare stamp to mail an absentee ballot in Tuesday's congressional election, a government official said on Friday. The 1918 Inverted Jenny stamp, which takes...

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