Exception for New York Could Bring Calls For More Changes to Election Bill
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Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus says heÃ¢ÂÂs working on a package of spending offsets that could add billions of dollars to the farm billÃ¢ÂÂs bottom line Ã¢ÂÂ but with strings attached.
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Blog: A sweeping new proposal scheduled for a preliminary vote Wednesday contains criminal penalties for unauthorized sales and fraudulent uses of Social Security numbers, but are there too many exceptions?
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New York's new AG also wants to be governor. Watch your wallet.
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New laws, new voting procedures and court fights that have changed the rules in some states may mean added confusion at the polls on Tuesday. With memories of deadlocked Florida still fresh, the lawyers are plentiful and busy this year. Here is a voter's guide to ways the partisan legal skirmishing could affect voters on Election Day.
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Delaying the January vote would raise new dangers. So will going ahead
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Michael Bloomberg may soon begin a massive operation to get on the ballot in up to 15 states even though the billionaire mayor may not decide until May whether to run for president, according to associates.
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Super Tuesday applies to politics and football in New York.
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Many states are facing legal challenges over possible voting problems Nov. 2. A look at some of the developments Tuesday and Wednesday:
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A New Jersey congressman introduced a bill Thursday in the House that would offer $600 million to voting districts across the nation that convert to paper ballots or put in audit systems in time for the November presidential election.
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Worried that both doctors and lawyers were wounded in their Election Day shootout, legislators are once again trying to make it harder for voters to amend the state&#39;s constitution.
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The argument in the Senate today seems likely to focus on potential changes to the bill, rather than on its overall fate.
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New Yorkâs Democratic presidential primary on Feb. 5 is shaping up as the stateâs most competitive since 1992.
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Lawmakers look to strengthen their role after the most polarized term in a half century.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg turned up the volume on a possible independent bid for president on Monday, arguing that partisanship is limiting the nation's progress at a summit of Republicans and Democrats that stole a bit of the spotlight from the candidates in New Hampshire.
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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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By Amelia Nielson-Stowell Deseret Morning News  The Legislature is meddling more and more in local government -- but who's asking for it?  Lawmakers have pushed dozens of bills this session that change the way cities and counties operate.
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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.