Judge bars challengers at Ohio polls
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A federal judge Monday barred political party challengers from questioning Ohio voters&#39; registrations at the polls on Election Day.
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Congressional Democrats and dissident groups asked the Ohio Supreme Court on Monday to review the outcome of the state's presidential race, hours before the Ohio delegation to the Electoral College was to cast ballots for president and vice president.
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A federal judge suspended a ban on two television ads in the governor's race until the court can decide whether the pro-GOP messages were wrongly blocked by a Democrat-controlled elections board.
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A Chilean judge Wednesday rejected Lima&#39;s request to extradite former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori to Peru, where he faces corruption and human rights charges.
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A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked an Arizona state law requiring voters to present identification at polling stations and proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
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The Ohio Supreme Court has declined to hear Ohio State's appeal of fired coach Jim O'Brien's lawsuit against the university.
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A federal judge in Ohio has ruled against a longstanding foreclosure practice, potentially creating an obstacle for lenders trying to reclaim properties from troubled borrowers and raising questions about the legal standing of investors in mortgage securities pools.
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The retrial of the founder of Peru's Shining Path movement is suspended when two judges refuse to take part.
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A judge Friday granted a state Republican Party request to block the counting of hundreds of recently discovered King County ballots in Washington's extremely close governor's race.
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The secretary of state, who declared President Bush the official winner in Ohio, is seeking a court order to keep himself from being interviewed as part of a court challenge of the Nov. 2 vote.
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Several absentee voters want their ballots back after voting for a judge whose coarse Internet postings drew recent news coverage. Election officials say forget about it.
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Democrat John Kerry's concession of the U.S. presidential race to Republican incumbent George W. Bush on Wednesday eased concerns that Ohio would emerge as a bitter battleground and delay the election's outcome for weeks, in a replay of 2000.
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A federal judge ignored a Justice Department argument Tuesday and ruled that Michigan must count provisional ballots cast by voters who show up at the wrong polling precincts but are in the right city, township or village.
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Some observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a Europe-wide security and rights forum, were barred from entering some polling stations in the United States, one of them said.
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A federal judge rejected arguments from the Bush administration Tuesday and ruled for Democrats in a dispute over how to count provisional ballots, a new voting requirement that could become the hanging chad of 2004.
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Court rules president's suspension of judge illegal.
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A judge on Friday chastised state officials for botching efforts to ensure electronic voting machines are tamperproof but cleared them for use in the November election, saying it was too late now to change course.