Activists Worry Election Reform May Wane
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Sure, there were hours-long lines, temperamental electronic machines and some old-fashioned misplaced ballots, but America's democracy worked well enough on Nov. 2 to elect a president.
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By Jennifer Davies, The San Diego Union-Tribune  Jun. 22--From hanging chads to computer glitches that mysteriously lose  thousands of votes, Lori Steele figures there has to be a better way to run  elections.
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It&#39;s possible that everyone who votes by Tuesday will wake up Wednesday morning a loser. The presidential election could produce a clouded result because of disputed ballots or challenges to ballot tallies.
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The 100,000 electronic voting machines in use in Tuesday's election have a big downside: Candidates who dispute the results won't have a way to conduct a meaningful recount. Analysis by Kim Zetter.
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WASHINGTON As we enter the last days before the presidential election, Americans seem skeptical about the voting process. A new Associated Press Ipsos-Public Affairs poll finds that 60 percent of those asked
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The U.S. presidential election in November could force change at the top of the Securities and Exchange Commission and help decide the fate of a reform effort to give shareholders more boardroom power.
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Six months before the November elections, alarms sounded throughout the labor movement. A flurry of memos from the field warned that high-level rancor from the 2005 breakup of the AFL-CIO was gumming up political mobilization on the ground, threatening to blow the Democrats' opportunity to retake Congress....
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The prospect of another close U.S.  presidential election has focused new attention on the  Electoral College, which actually chooses the winner, but the  renewed calls for change are likely to fail as they have  hundreds of times in the past.
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Conference calls and e-mail messages to Congress have mostly replaced antiwar demonstrations and street theater. But itâs not clear if that makes for a more effective protest movement.
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Time is running out for Congress to pass real reform before the elections. But a commonsense plan from an unlikely Congressman may be gaining momentum
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Civilians and soldiers living abroad face an unwieldy system of absentee balloting that could prevent their votes from being counted.
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Election day may be in November, but some Americans will start casting ballots next week under early voting laws that have reshaped the campaign landscape and changed the most fundamental act of democracy.
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Leaders on both sides of a contested election move toward  a new deal, but the impact of weeks of bloodshed may be more difficult to resolve
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Critics say the state has been too quick to embrace electronic voting and could be headed for a fiasco in November elections.
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A baby step towards democracy, but liberal reformers lose
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An advocacy group that registered more than a million voters two years ago is facing new allegations of voter fraud and sloppy work just weeks before crucial midterm elections.
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The legal question that has dominated court fights over the coming election &#151; the fate of voters who mistakenly try to vote outside their home precinct &#151; appears nearly settled.