Poll Watchers to Crowd Voting Venues
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Tens of thousands of poll monitors, challengers, lawyers and other activist observers are expected to clog voting precincts in battleground states Tuesday in what will probably be the most scrutinized U.S. election in at least 40 years.
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An anxious crowd mobbed the election office in this Washington suburb just before 9 pm (0100 GMT Wednesday), seeking to register before the deadline to vote in the November 2 presidential election passed.
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A flood of foreign observers is expected for the Dec. 26 rerun of the presidential vote.
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This election year, activist groups are targeting undecided voters through consumer databases. But veteran campaigners say no magic formula can predict how people will vote based on where they live and what they buy. By John Gartner.
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Faith, family and freedom were catchwords Friday, as Republican 2008 presidential hopefuls appealed to Ã¢ÂÂvalues votersÃ¢ÂÂ at a convention in Washington, D.C. The event Ã¢ÂÂ organized by the Family Research Council, an organization of religious conservative activists Ã¢ÂÂ will continue into Saturday and conclude with a straw poll of attendees that is being watched as an indicator of voting sentiment among the conservative evangelical constituency.
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Some of America&#39;s best known musicians have come together to headline concerts aimed at getting people to vote for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
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The Justice Department is dispatching a record number of federal poll watchers around the country on Election Day but is taking care to avoid perceptions of voter intimidation, officials said Friday.
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Ballot boxes have been emptied and votes are being counted at 600,000 polling stations across the country. Many are being counted in the open air, attracting large crowds of onlookers.
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Polling stations open doors to 3 million electors.
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By LORI ARATANI, SETH BOENSTEIN, THOMAS FITZGERALD and WILLIAM DOUGLAS. From Spokane to Honolulu to Cleveland to Charlotte, millions of voters continued to steam into their polling places Tuesday, enduring
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NEW YORK The last Newsweek poll before election day suggests a big majority of Americans don&#39;t expect smooth sailing at voting booths.
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On election night in November 2000, dozens gathered at the American Center in New Delhi to watch the returns. When Democrats and Republicans alike saw the close results coming in, some were compelled to sheepishly admit that they hadn't bothered to vote.
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With just days to go in the US presidential election, readers from the BBC's language sites have been discussing what outcome they would like to see in the crucial poll.
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For those U.S. residents still unsure which presidential candidate to vote for -- and there appear to be quite a few who can't make up their minds less than a week before the election -- there's a new Web-based tool that can help voters match their positions to those of the major presidential candidates.
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In an election year when just a few thousand votes in a few states could decide the winner, the growing number of voters who cast ballots weeks before Election Day is transforming the landscape for political campaigns.
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Like fishing in a stocked pond instead of an ocean, politicians are trying to catch votes by targeting phone calls and fliers at voters who have already applied for absentee ballots.
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Some elections are about persuasion. This one is about turnout. In past presidential debates, candidates have tried to change people&#39;s minds and win over undecideds.