Fighting For Every Last Vote
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In such a tight race, the game is about turning out your supporters. TIME goes inside the ground war
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I just read an article on the Village Voice website that summed up one of the complaints I have had for some time about the Democratic Party: They won't fight.  At the same time, they are trying to convince conservative voters to vote for them instead of the Republicans and are losing votes on the liberal side as a result.   For both of these problems, I blame the Democratic Leadership Council.
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Tired of being seen by religious voters as too secular or even hostile toward religion, the Democrat party and its presidential candidates have launched an all-out effort to win their votes.
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In winner-take-all Florida primary, Republican candidates made last-ditch push for votes.
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There is just one day until America&#39;s voters head to the polls. Today the presidential candidates are continuing their whirlwind campaigning, trying to energize voters to get to the polls and to spark turnout in their favor.
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Many state and local officials are making last-minute efforts to limit or reverse the rollout of new machines in the November elections.
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Political analysts say they've never seen anything quite like the tough-guy competition between President Bush and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry. They point to two reasons: millions of hunters and fishermen live in the battleground states each candidate needs to win, and voters everywhere are haunted by 9/11.
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Ukraine's defeated presidential candidate  made a last-ditch but seemingly hopeless attempt on Wednesday  to challenge the victory of his liberal opponent, Viktor  Yushchenko.
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Any candidate will attest that the epic fight now is against sleep deprivation, the gaffe-inducing monster that looms over a campaign in its final hours.
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EYE ON THE ELECTION: Tens of thousands of poll monitors and challengers are expected to crowd precincts in battleground states Tuesday.
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Nic Cochran is 16 years old, but he has already learned one of the basic truths of politics. Beyond the countless stump speeches and spin, elections are won or lost on Election Day.
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Too inexperienced or too old - candidates face dilemmas as they battle to capture centre ground
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Advocates for the mental ill are trying to secure voting rights while concern mounts about the risks of voting by people with conditions like dementia.
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Election leaves all stakeholders facing new choices
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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On the verge of historic presidential elections in Afghanistan, everybody is braced for the worst. Yet, on the last day of campaigning Wednesday, the threats from the Taliban
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It's a voluntary army vs. a professional force. Button-down Republicans vs. street-wise Democrats. It's the ground war of American politics, with allies of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry spending fortunes to find their supporters and &#151; here's the hard, final part &#151; get them to vote.