Cal is skeptical of voting
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It&#39;s Tuesday morning in college football, California still isn&#39;t going to the Rose Bowl and, frankly, people want answers.
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As the voting gets underway, in what is expected to be a tight race, there are already election fears of fraud. Many are worried that the PSD (Social Democrats) might attempt to manipulate the voting in some way.
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Among the security concerns that have been raised is the possibility of someone being able to cast multiple ballots. Other concerns are about a sudden power outage and whether data would be lost in such a scenario.
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Candidates are confronting an electorate deeply unsettled about the United Statesâ ability to control its own destiny.
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The nation is girding for tomorrow&#39;s presidential election, worried about the integrity of the voting system, divided over the legitimacy of President Bush&#39;s election four
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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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This monthÂs midterm election revealed that the country is still far from able to ensure that every vote counts.
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For some, voting day will be violent and disappointing. For others, just plain confusing. And the Sunnis may have to be drawn in after the fact
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Though they attend one of the nation's most prestigious public universities, don't ask California's football players to decipher their chances of playing in a Bowl Championship Series game.
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A bitter campaign ends with voters divided and lawyers waiting in the wings. The world holds its breath. People vote early at the Kern County elections office in Bakersfield, Calif.
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A strange thing happened in Florida this week. A primary election took place, and observers found few reasons to complain or question the results. But some say November's national election may be a different story. By Jacob Ogles.
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Given that many moderate and conservative Californians see Arnold Schwarzenegger's veto pen as all that protects them from the most far-left Legislature north of Caracas, it may be a surprise to learn that so far the governor's sign-to-veto ratio on bills sent his way is a stunning 19 to 1.
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In a state that prizes undeclared voters, a small but potent group is deciding between two politically divergent candidates&#13;&#10;
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Experts say the voting group phenomenon may be a myth.
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During the nineties, our state saw an increase in population, due to "The Californians" (who we like to bitch about) migrating to our low tax/low smog state.  Though most of us natives like to bitch about their supposedly shallow, urban sprawl, rude soccer mom, cell phone, and shopping mall ways, they have done something useful and actually turned us backwards hillbilly, gun toting, Republican loving rednecks into a swing state. Now we have to deal with traffic on I-25 being snarled for hours whenever Dick Cheney decides to send his motorcade through rush hour.  The most important issue on the ballot in our state is Amendment 36, which would change our electoral voting from "winner takes all" to a proportional voting system.
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The justicesâ questioning on indicated a majority does not accept the basic argument brought by challengers to Indianaâs voter-identification law.
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The politically charged methods that states use to draw Congressional districts are under attack by citizens groups, state legislators and the governor of California.