Articles tagged with voting
Fri, May 18, 2012
Appeals court affirms minority voting rights law
By Terry Baynes
(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a key provision of the landmark U.S. voting rights law aimed at ...
Tue, May 15, 2012
Ohio Governor signs law to repeal voting law changes
By Kim Palmer
CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Ohio's Republican Governor John Kasich signed a bill on Tuesday reversing a contentious voting law that Democrats have ...
Thu, May 03, 2012
Iran holds run-off parliamentary election
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranians voted on Friday in a run-off parliamentary election that could establish a new balance between Iran's top leader and its ...
Fri, April 20, 2012
Socialists celebrate as French vote nears close
By Sybille de La Hamaide and Daniel Flynn
PARIS (Reuters) - France looked set to crown Francois Hollande as its first Socialist president in nearly ...
Wed, April 18, 2012
News Corp suspends voting rights for some non-U.S. shareholders
(Reuters) - News Corp suspended half the voting rights of its non-American shareholders to comply with a U.S. law that limits foreign ownership, after ...
Sun, March 04, 2012
Voting fraud allegations mar Putin's presidential win
By Thomas Grove
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A few days before Russia's presidential election, Sergei Smirnov received a phone call from a man who called ...
Sun, March 04, 2012
Pressure mounts on Romney for Illinois victory
By Steve Holland
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pressure is mounting on Republican Mitt Romney to win next Tuesday's presidential primary in Illinois, a state considered ...
Thu, March 01, 2012
Romney Crys Foul on Santorum Calling Democrats
UNDATED (WKZO) -- There is another piece of unfinished business from the Michigan Primary. The Romney camp is crying foul over the robo-calls solicited by ...
Fri, January 27, 2012
Romney, in comeback, has narrow Maine caucus win
By Ros Krasny
PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney grabbed back some momentum after midweek losses in three states, scoring a narrow ...
Mon, January 16, 2012
In South Carolina, attorney general says voting rights at risk
By John Whitesides
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, appearing at a Martin Luther King holiday rally in South Carolina ...
Fri, January 13, 2012
Attorney General to speak on voting rights in South Carolina
By Jeremy Pelofsky
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder plans to deliver a speech on voting rights on Monday at a Martin Luther King ...
Thu, January 05, 2012
Factbox: Three early voting states in presidential election
(Reuters) - Voters kick off the 2012 nominating process to pick the Republican Party's challenger to Democratic President Barack Obama with the Iowa caucuses ...
Wed, January 04, 2012
Romney has big leads in next voting states
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Mitt Romney has surged to the front of the Republican pack in South Carolina, a poll said on Friday, a ...
Wed, December 14, 2011
Islamists set to dominate in Egypt vote
By Dina Zayed and Marwa Awad
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptians voting on Thursday said they felt empowered by the first free election after Hosni Mubarak ...
Tue, December 13, 2011
New state laws threaten U.S. voting rights: Holder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder is venturing deeper into a political thicket over how individual states run elections, saying discrimination based on race ...
Tue, November 29, 2011
Lehman says wins broad support for bankruptcy plan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc
Tue, November 22, 2011
Referendum effort to challenge Ohio absentee voting limits
By Mary Wisniewski and Jo Ingles
COLUMBUS (Reuters) - Ohio Democrats said on Tuesday they had gathered more than enough signatures for a referendum issue ...
Tue, October 11, 2011
U.S. auto workers split in early voting on Ford pact
DETROIT (Reuters) - Workers at a large Ford Motor Co
Sat, October 08, 2011
Voting ends in controversial Cherokee election of chief
By Steve Olafson
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Voting ended on Saturday to pick a principal chief of the Cherokee Indians, the nation's second largest ...
Thu, October 06, 2011
Senate panel seen voting on trade pacts next week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Finance Committee will vote on Tuesday on three long-delayed trade deals with South Korea, Panama and Colombia, a congressional source ...
Tue, September 27, 2011
Judge says Cherokees violate voting rights, extends election
By Steve Olafson
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A federal judge ruled that the Cherokees violated the voting rights of African-American members of the nation's ...
Wed, September 21, 2011
Judge upholds key part of voting rights law
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday upheld a key provision of the landmark U.S. voting rights law aimed at ...
Mon, June 13, 2011
Supreme Court upholds ethics law on voting recusal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - States can require that lawmakers disqualify themselves from voting on matters because they may have a conflict of interest, the Supreme Court ...
Fri, May 13, 2011
FIFA voting system open to abuse: AOC chief
SYDNEY (Reuters) - FIFA's World Cup bidding process will remain open to abuse unless changes are made, Australia's Olympic chief has said in ...
Tue, April 19, 2011
Canada student mobs aim to make voting go viral
By Louise Egan
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Wearing neon colors, dancing and flashing "I vote" signs for video cameras, students in Canada's capital on Monday ...
Fri, April 15, 2011
Election Officials to Investigate Waukesha Co. Voting Totals from '06
BROOKFIELD, Wis. (WTAQ) - State election officials have agreed to investigate alleged voting irregularities that date back to 2006 in Waukesha County.
The State Democratic ...
Mon, January 31, 2011
Early voting starts in Chicago as Emanuel wins Sun-Times nod
By Mary Wisniewski
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Early voting started on Monday in Chicago's mayoral race with former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel ...
Wed, January 12, 2011
Five Charged With Illegal Voting In Minnesota
Five Minnesotans are going to court, accused of voting when they shouldn't have. We don't know who they voted for but according ...
Sun, January 09, 2011
Millions start voting in South Sudan independence poll
By Jason Benham
JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Millions of jubilant south Sudanese started voting on Sunday in a long-awaited independence referendum that is expected to ...
Sat, November 20, 2010
Judge Allows Racial Bias Voting Suit to Move Forward
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - A Milwaukee judge lets the case of two African-American men charged with casting illegal votes move forward.
Michael Henderson and Olando ...
Tue, November 02, 2010
Kids Are Voting Too
Once again this year, the Kids Voting Minnesota program will have area students in Esko, Cloquet, Duluth, Two Harbors and Superior casting ballots while ...
Sat, October 30, 2010
Ferrell gets political for voting videos
The funnyman's site is known for producing celebrity skits, but Ferrell will now try mixing humour with politics in a bid to push ...
Thu, October 28, 2010
FIFA tries to untangle World Cup voting
By Brian Homewood
ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA's executive committee begins a two-day meeting on Thursday with the task of reducing the confusion surrounding a ...
Mon, October 25, 2010
Democrats off to good start in early voting
By John Whitesides
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats are off to a stronger than expected start in early voting despite months of dire predictions about their ...
Fri, October 01, 2010
Early Voting Starts Monday in Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Wisconsinites can start voting Monday in the upcoming general election.
That’s when municipal clerks will start letting people vote absentee ...
Sun, August 29, 2010
Study Aims to Look at Voting Habits of Counties
WASHINGTON D.C. (WTAQ) - The U.S. Supreme Court has long held the concept of “a county” reflecting a community of interest, made up ...
Mon, August 16, 2010
State Absentee Voting Starts Tuesday
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WTAQ) - Green Bay residents will be able to start voting by absentee ballot Tuesday for the upcoming September 14th Partisan Primary ...
Tue, August 10, 2010
No Split Ticket Voting
Election officials are reminding Minnesotans they cannot vote a so-called "split ticket" in today's primary. On the partisan portion of the ballot, the ...
Tue, August 10, 2010
Absentee Voting Highest in two decades
(KDAL Duluth, MN)--As of late Monday afternoon, the Minnesota Secretary of State's Office had received nearly 29-thousand absentee ballots. Officials say that ...
Tue, August 10, 2010
Split-Ticket Voting Not Allowed In Today's Primary
(St. Paul, MN) -- Election officials are reminding Minnesotans they cannot vote a so-called "split ticket" in today's primary. On the partisan portion of ...
Thu, August 05, 2010
Senate rejects Fed nominee Diamond before voting
By Pedro da Costa and Rick Cowan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday scrapped the nomination of Peter Diamond to the Federal ...
Wed, July 14, 2010
SEC eyes changes to shareholder voting system
By Rachelle Younglai
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Securities regulators on Wednesday weighed whether to change voting in corporate elections, amid calls from companies and some investors ...
Mon, July 12, 2010
Barrett Wants Non-Partisan Board to Draw Up Voting Districts
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - Tom Barrett, the Democrats’ main candidate for governor, said Monday that a non-partisan board should draft the boundaries for state legislative ...
Sun, June 27, 2010
G20 push for IMF voting power deal by November
By Lesley Wroughton and John McCrank
TORONTO (Reuters) - Group of 20 leaders pledged on Sunday to push for agreement on greater voting power for ...
Tue, May 11, 2010
Probe Into Double Voting in WI, MN Underway
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - If you voted in both Wisconsin and Minnesota in the 2008 presidential election, don’t be surprised if you get nabbed ...
Thu, April 22, 2010
Scott Walker: If Elected, I'll Ban Dark of Night Voting in Madison
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - If Republican Scott Walker had his way, Wisconsin legislators would no longer meet in the dead of night. Walker said Thursday ...
Thu, January 21, 2010
Lebron James tops voting for All-Star game
MIAMI (Reuters) - Cleveland's LeBron James topped voting for the NBA All-Star Game and Allen Iverson was a surprise starter when the selections were ...
Sat, December 19, 2009
Nelson Gets Favors, Now Voting For U.S. Senate Health Bill
WASHINGTON D.C. (WTAQ) - Looks like you can make it 60 in the U.S. Senate to pass major health care reform. Nebraska Senator ...
Wed, December 16, 2009
State Elections Agency Calls For No Early Voting Outside Absentee
MADISON (WRN) - Wisconsin’s elections agency says the state should not allow early voting outside of the absentee system. After a crush of absentee ...
Tue, November 17, 2009
Study: Early Voting Decreases Total Voter Turnout
MADISON (WRN) - A study at UW-Madison shows that early voting often decreases the total turnout of an election. But the effect is not as ...
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