Councilman's Vote Could Raise His Worth
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By Don Hamilton, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep. 18--Ridgefield city Councilman Gary Adkins cast a vote this year that could make him millions of dollars.   It happened Jan.
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Some are starting to wonder whether Mayor Daley's ambitious pledge of four years ago was more politics than policy
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A favorite son may be topping Tuesday&#39;s ballot, but the decisions don&#39;t stop there for Massachusetts residents on Election Day.
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In the city, some 250,000 to 300,000 immigrants-turned-US citizens will vote Tuesday.
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A review Tuesday of ballots cast in the San Diego mayor's race showed that a city councilwoman would beat the incumbent mayor if disputed write-in votes were added to the official tally, a newspaper reported.
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City Councilman-elect and former mayor Marion Barry could soon be one of the people steering Metro, the capital area's cash-strapped transit agency.
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A Supreme Court decision in favor of one protesting village has inspired others.
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New York mayor's move sparks speculation he intends to run for president.
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Mayor Richard M. Daley will be on course to eclipse his legendary father and become the city's longest-serving mayor if voters Tuesday give him a sixth term despite a City Hall corruption scandal.
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Battered by rising crime, many voters are turning again to the get-tough promise of a military man
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Here&#39;s a primer on which candidate would likely be better for voters concerned about jobs, energy costs, real estate, taxes... Still undecided about who to vote for on Nov. 2? One way to decide is to simply vote your pocketbook.
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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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By Chris Conrad, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore.  Feb. 17--Imagine Tom Lowell's surprise when he set out to log a parcel of  land just outside Gold Hill and found that someone else had done the work for  him -- and reaped the benefits.
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Instead, our neighbor to the north showed that votes may count, or they may not, depending on how often you count them. We can draw these conclusions from what happened in the Washington election for governor.
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Michael R. Bloomberg, New Yorkâs once-improbable mayor, would still be an unlikely presidential contender.
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The seemingly interminable race for Washington governor may hinge on whether 723 originally untallied votes count.
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Whoever wins the election may have to make tough choices about Social Security's finances.