Afghanistan: An Election Without Results
Everyone here is impatient to know the outcome of the much-discussed, controversial Afghan elections, but two months have passed and still no one has a clue about the real situation.
Everyone here is impatient to know the outcome of the much-discussed, controversial Afghan elections, but two months have passed and still no one has a clue about the real situation.
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran released a foreign Newsweek reporter on bail Saturday almost four months after he was arrested following the country's dispu...
Los Angeles Times | Laura King | Posted 10.12.2009 | World
Days before the outcome of Afghanistan's contentious presidential vote was expected to be announced, the head of the United Nations mission in the cou...
New York Times | RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. And SANGAR RAHIMI | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
European Union monitors said Wednesday that about one-third of the votes cast for President Hamid Karzai in the Aug. 20 election are suspicious and sh...
Dave Astor | Posted 07.18.2009 | Comedy
There's the Star Trek solution of changing the time-space continuum, but I'm hesitant to recommend that because of the damage it might do to the Obamas' new White House vegetable garden.
Craig Crawford | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics
Under the circumstances we probably ought to leave the outrage about Iran's questionable balloting to nations with a better established record of putting the real winners in office.
Brad Friedman | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics
Will the voting machine company representatives out there continue to report that no election has ever been manipulated via an electronic voting system?
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
Maybe laws that require federal oversight in re-districting historically corrupt areas seem draconian to Blackwell; he prefers laws that do the job of knocking voters off the rolls for him.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics
Ken Blackwell released a list "conservative luminaries" who endorse him as RNC Chair. It reads like a list of guest-stars from The Love Boat.
Brad Friedman | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics
Although U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey repeatedly sought protection for Connell and his wife, it went unheeded.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics
J. Kenneth Blackwell, whose administration of the '04 election made Katherine Harris look like Mary Tyler Moore, is pushing to become chair of the RNC. I support his selection wholeheartedly.
Shannyn Moore | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Alaska needs an election autopsy STAT. This year's turnout was smaller than the election of 2004 by 6.1%. I would have to smoke more than salmon to believe that Alaska, with Palin on the ballot, decided to sit this one out.
Shannyn Moore | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
We're supposed to believe that overall participation decreased by 11%. This historic election both nationally and for Alaska had the lowest Alaska turnout for a presidential race ever!?! Something stinks.
Robert Koehler | Posted 12.01.2008 | Chicago
'Our class is writing this to inform everyone about previous problems in the elections and to warn people to watch for similar troubles.'
Jonathan Kim | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
A small number of people could easily program DREs to flip votes, and the evidence of this crime would be safely locked inside the machines.
The Real News | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
"We don't want a repeat of the abuse of the Justice Department for political purposes that we saw before," says Overton. This is a tactic that is all too common within the U.S. political arena.
Kamala Lopez | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
A lot of people feel extremely frustrated about the rampant voter suppression going on as evidenced by the many comments on my last post.
Clifford J. Tasner | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
Here is Billionaire super-rapper 50 Billion presenting The Billionaires' urgent and inspirational message for this upcoming election.
Kamala Lopez | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
I feel very very ashamed of what we, as Americans, have come to accept as "all's fair" in this craven fight to win.
Progress Illinois | Angela Caputo | Posted 11.16.2008 | Chicago
It appears that the GOP believe so strongly in their false claims that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is out to com...
Robert Koehler | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
Could a "national threat" possibly be less plausible? Vilifying ACORN and other voter registration groups that seek to enfranchise and empower the socially marginalized serves several purposes.
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
If those supporting the democratic process are not exceedingly vigilant, the GOP could use these tactics--assault on voter registration, electronic voting--to once again take the White House.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics
This election won't be won or lost at the debates. Nor will it be determined by the two campaigns' "ground games." My fear is that the results will hang on the swing state voting systems' vulnerability to sabotage.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 10.21.2008 | Home
In a press conference call Saturday morning, the Republican National Committee's chief counsel sweepingly denied that the Republican Party has engaged...
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. | Posted 10.20.2008 | Chicago
The Republican Party, led by this crew of rich, out-of-touch "homies" is preparing to deny the right to vote to Midwesterners who have already suffered from home foreclosures.
Abdulhadi Hairan | Posted 10.19.2009 | World