Poll: Rival ballot initiatives both ahead
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Competing ballot initiatives governing rules for primary elections in California are both leading by double-digit margins, but the percentage of undecided voters has increased, according to a new Field Poll.
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By LORI ARATANI, SETH BOENSTEIN, THOMAS FITZGERALD and WILLIAM DOUGLAS. From Spokane to Honolulu to Cleveland to Charlotte, millions of voters continued to steam into their polling places Tuesday, enduring
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Delaying the January vote would raise new dangers. So will going ahead
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The heated Bush-Kerry race might seem reason enough for voters to turn out on Nov. 2, but in many states extra incentive is provided by divisive ballot measures on topics ranging from marijuana legalization and minimum wages to malpractice and same-sex marriage.
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Florida elections supervisors want to give voters several days to elect candidates, a proposal offered after early voting in last month's presidential election apparently helped avoid a repeat of the 2000 election debacle.
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Divided results mean fight may go beyond Super Tuesday as questions arise over ideological path
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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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Rival union federations have agreed to coordinate get-out-the-vote and other efforts for November.
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Some observers believe the two arch-rivals will wind up adopting the other's design.
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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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Montana voters on Tuesday approved 62% to 38% a ballot initiative to allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes by patients with chronic illnesses, including HIV/AIDS or cancer, while voters in Oregon rejected 58% to 42% an initiative to expand the
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In a scramble for late-breaking votes, Bush and Kerry each enumerate risks of putting the other at the nation&#39;s helm. By Liz Marlantes | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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It&#39;s becoming increasingly clear that turnout will decide the 2004 election. While one candidate could still seize the momentum in the campaign&#39;s closing week, the election is so close in 12 states that the
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California&#39;s controversial stem cell research ballot measure appears to be gaining favor, according to a poll that found 54 percent of likely voters approve it.
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Political fires are still burning brightly ahead of this weekend's elections
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Clinton and Obama advocate similar visions for what has become the biggest issue for voters.
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In Washington State, ballots are being recounted in closest statewide race in history.