Officials Warn Poll Worker Shortage Looms
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A critical shortage of poll workers will develop around the nation unless younger people step in to take over for senior citizens who staff polling places now, elections officials said Monday. In Baltimore, "If they're breathing and they can walk we have to take them," said the city's election director, Barbara Jackson.
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The UK strawberry crop may be under threat due to a shortage of migrant workers, the farmers' union warns.
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KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan. 1 -- Long-awaited elections scheduled for next week are almost certain to be postponed, a choice that rankles opposition leaders in Pakistan who want the vote held on time.
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International observers predicted problems in the U.S. presidential election with new voting machines and warned the result could again be delayed, four years after a disputed count determined who won the White House.
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Voters and analysts fear that ballot-box clash of Karzai and rival candidate from different ethnic group could bring disaster.
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U.S. lawmakers returning from a  weeklong break on Monday will take up a long list of unfinished  -- and possibly insurmountable -- tasks that could help decide  whether voters will re-elect them in November.
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Seventeen political parties today demanded postponement of the Jan. 30 elections for at least six months until the government is capable of securing polling places.
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With less than six weeks to go before the Nov. 2 presidential election, voting activists said officials still have time to set up a paper trail as a counterweight to an e-voting system they portrayed as wide open to manipulation.
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Election officials in Florida said Thursday they will send new absentee ballots to voters in one of the state&#39;s most populous counties amid outcry over disappearance of thousands of ballots.
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Lawyers warn that voters in battleground states will face a barrage of dirty tricks at the polls Tuesday, with some political operatives planning to pose as law-enforcement officers to scare people away.
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The Democratic and Republican parties have warned that it could take weeks to decide the November 2 election and have hired teams of attorneys and observers for the contest.
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Iraqi officials said Saturday they are considering new measures to protect voters in the Jan. 30 national election, including a three-day, nationwide ban on driving to discourage car-bombings. Fresh clashes broke out in the troubled northern city of Mosul, where most election officials have fled their jobs in fear.
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Officials are worried that the efforts of the political parties to promote absentee balloting could taint the general election.
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Iraqi expatriates, some of whom may have failed to register to vote in their homeland's upcoming national election because of weather conditions or a recent Muslim holiday, have been given two more days to do so.
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KARACHI, Pakistan, Dec. 31 -- Long-awaited elections scheduled for next week are almost certain to be postponed Tuesday, a choice that rankles opposition leaders in Pakistan who want the vote held on time.
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The Justice Department is dispatching a record number of federal poll watchers around the country on Election Day but is taking care to avoid perceptions of voter intimidation, officials said Friday.
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As random selection placed registered entrants on a ballot that is expected to be several pages long, officials worried that violence aimed at preventing the election is surging.