Young voters -- a wild card in 2006 U.S. elections
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A tech-savvy college senior with a   passion for politics, Ryan Briggs is fed up with the White   House and is urging young Democrats to stand up for their   party. But he's not waving placards or handing out fliers.
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Arizona began allowing voters to register online in 2004. Three years later, Washington became the second state to do so.
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Rasmussen Reports - Party Affiliation Trends highlight the difference between Election 2006 and Election 2004.
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After the 2000 election, counties around the country rushed to buy new computerized voting machines. But it turns out that these machines may cause problems worse than hanging chads. Is America ready for another contested election?
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The status of the Green Party candidate's nationwide ballot campaign
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Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK In the final stretch of the 2006 midterm elections, famed reporter Tom Edsall started his day with a virtual information overload Â reading no less than 10 blogs to keep abreast of the 24-hour coverage of Senate and House races across the nation. It's as if he's been doing it for all 65 years of his life Â instead of for the first time. In reality, neither he nor anyone else in politics had even heard of a blog during the last midterm election Â and since then, it's hard for many reporters to remember the time when they were considerably less connected.
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The energized voters that candidates see on the campaign trail
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President Bush called it a thumping, but to Democrats, it felt more like a restoration after a long turn out of power in Congress and several big-state governorships. By any description, the 2006 elections marked a voter revolt, fueled by anger over the war in Iraq and corruption at home, yet carried out with remarkable precision.
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A look at efforts by the Democrats and the Republicans to register new voters in battleground states:
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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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GuardianFilms: At the University of Missouri, Guardian US correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg finds energized and focussed young voters who can't wait to put the Bush era behind them
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By KRIS WISE  DAILY MAIL CAPITOL REPORTER  A new study shows young voters could be critical to the outcome of November's midterm elections in West Virginia, where youth turnout in similar elections has been declining in the past two decades to less than 16 percent.
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In their new role as the House majority, the Democrats so far this year have shown overwhelming unity on legislative votes. There are some exceptions, though Ã¢ÂÂ and they mostly come from members of the big and decisive House Class of 2006 who prevailed last year in politically competitive districts and could face difficult re-election contests in 2008.
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WASHINGTON - John Kerry says re-electing President Bush would create "the great potential of a draft." Not so, responds the incumbent: "The best way to avoid the draft is to vote for me."   The fact that both Bush and Kerry are on record opposing mandatory military service speaks volumes about the audience they're targeting with their dueling draft scares - young voters.    In an election where voter turnout is the great unknown, the voting rate and preferences of 18- to 30-year-olds may be the biggest wild card on Nov...
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THE RACE: Support for Republican, Democratic candidates in the presidential races in New Hampshire
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Young Americans appear to lean slightly more to the left than the general population, according to a new poll.
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They love using their iPods, laptops and cell phones for political information, yet many young adults say they aren't quite sure how to get a ballot in the first place.