Penn State: 1000 Youth in Line to Vote at 7am
The youth vote is likely to make up 25% of the electorate today and is a powerful national voice that is demanding green jobs and clean energy to reinvigorate and re-power our economy.
The youth vote is likely to make up 25% of the electorate today and is a powerful national voice that is demanding green jobs and clean energy to reinvigorate and re-power our economy.
Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
With record numbers expected to head to the polls all across America today, crazy moments are bound to ensue. Check out some of the best stories so fa...
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Votekindly.org is not naive about possible voter suppression activities. But they are calling on voters to stand up to these methods -- with clarity and kindness.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
TMZ, of all sites, has an interesting story up about a political saboteur telling Democrats in Deerfield Beach, Florida that they are supposed to vote...
The Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
On the eve of the 2008 presidential election people in Birmingham are celebrating the historic presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama. For many...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Send us your Election Day stories here. Read letters from HuffPost readers at our On The Ground page. Voters are sending in incredible stories from t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
At the Math and Science Center in Richmond, Virginia, an early breakdown of electronic voting machines led to a three-and-a-half hour wait to vote on ...
AP | DEBORAH HASTINGS | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Lines stretched around buildings and down city blocks as people waited hours to cast ballots in the historic presidential race between Barack Obama an...
Phil Trounstine | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
The weather really matters, by preventing lower-income people and minorities who depend on public transportation from making it to the polls. Weather can significantly determine who votes on election day.
Erica Heller | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
In my 24/7 nail-biting terror that the election will be snatched and stolen from Obama, I was reminded that there are many people, committed and dedicated, who work exceedingly hard on Election Day.
Sally Kohn | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
Since community organizers were front-and-center in this election -- sometimes celebrated, sometimes mocked -- why not hear from community organizers as Election Day unfolds?
Leslie Griffith | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
How to make sure your vote is counted. It is up to American citizens to do their own reporting and their own investigations. Here's how to insist on a democratic election by your own means.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
Voters in many places are either being prevented from voting, tricked into fearful silence or otherwise hindered. So the only safe option for our country is a landslide victory for Obama!
Baratunde Thurston | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
This is a 90 second video with last-minute strategies to weather election day and protect your vote. So please digg the action alert and this video, so we can spread the word!
NY Times | IAN URBINA | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
Millions of voters will encounter an unfamiliar low-tech landscape at the polls on Tuesday. About half of all voters will vote in a way that is differ...
Alan Fein | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics
I have never seen a volunteer effort like it in any Florida campaign, ever. I expect the laser focus and effort to stay in place through Tuesday.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
The choice America makes will be a world wide broadcast on whether it is content with mediocrity and the cancer of anti-intellectualism that began to spread this Election season.
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Voter turnout will be the highest in decades, dwarfing recent presidential elections, experts predict. The only question dividing e...
Jamie Frevele | Posted 11.30.2008 | Entertainment
I'm not ready to declare any victory on anything until I see it on November 5th. That's what I've learned from being a New York Giants fan -- it ain't over till it's over. Really. I'm dead serious.
LA Times | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
Counting down to an election day expected to draw a record-shattering turnout, voting-rights watchdogs are sounding the alarm that a repeat of the Flo...
The Real News | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
"Obama will not fulfill that potential for change unless he is enveloped by a social movement, which is angry enough, powerful enough, [and] insistent enough"
Diane Tucker | Posted 11.23.2008 | Home
"Will Mississippi election officials accept a Czech-language notarization?" Brian Reagan, an American citizen living in Prague, asked OffTheBus. Reaga...
Jack Helmuth | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
Well, it depends on who you are. Here are some ideas for all sorts of people, of which you must certainly be one.
Alex Geana | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
I've talked to voters, for many elections now. Yes, I've been a politico for a while. In this election voter apathy is at an all time low. This excite...
Brian Ross | Posted 11.21.2008 | Home
Most of the poll workers are elderly, and not particularly adept at using the computers. My agent took almost five minutes to find me in the system and issue me a ballot. One woman who exited the polling place after half an hour was apparently dead, even though she looked quite well.
Jake Brewer | Posted 12.05.2008 | Green