Unicameral legislature misses Mich. ballot
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A campaign to eliminate the Michigan Senate and create only the second unicameral legislature in the country ended Monday after supporters said they didn't gather enough signatures to put the plan to voters in November.
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Voters living abroad face an unwieldy system of absentee balloting that could prevent their votes from being counted.
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New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton headed off a potentially embarrassing situation Tuesday when she won Michigan's Democratic presidential primary -- a contest, tarnished by a scheduling dispute between the national and state party organizations, in which she was the only top-tier Democratic candidate on the ballot.
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There's not much consensus over the significance of Republican Mitt Romney's victory in Michigan's primary on Tuesday. The only thing that's clear is that the race on the GOP side is still a muddle.
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People who cast a provisional ballot at the wrong precinct aren't entitled to have their votes counted, the state Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday, rejecting an argument by labor unions that the rule wrongly disenfranchises voters.
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In Washington State, ballots are being recounted in closest statewide race in history.
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Legislation that would have offered a path to citizenship for illegal-immigrant high school graduates who entered the United States as children failed a key test vote in the Senate yesterday.
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Under pressure from state and local officials, Democratic leaders in Congress are slowing their drive to revamp the nationâs voting systems.
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Recent scandals and the election of Gov. Eliot Spitzer have taken a toll on the party scene among state legislators.
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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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KIEV - Ukraine&#39;s parliament failed Saturday to pass a set of reforms designed to prevent fraud in the next round of presidential balloting.
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On Super Tuesday, they approved measures to expand slot machines. But they declined to amend term limits for state lawmakers.
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By Timothy C. Barmann; Journal Staff Writer  Language creating a power authority to enable renewable energy projects is stripped from a bill in the final hours of the Assembly session.
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SEATTLE - Duncan M. MacDonald can't vote, which could be a relief to politicians who otherwise might have to outline their positions on chew toys, postal carriers and squirrels.
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House leaders pulled an offshore drilling measure off the calendar today, an apparent signal that the bill did not have the two-thirds majority of votes needed for it to be adopted.
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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 Michigan legislature on Thursday approved moving the state's presidential nomination contests to Jan. 15, just days after national Democrats vowed to punish states that vote too early.