February 14, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Illinois senator Barack Obama scored three convincing wins over rival Hillary Clinton, senator for New York, in the Democrats’ ‘Potomac primaries’. Obama won Virginia by a margin of 64% tp 35%, Maryland by a margin of 60% to 37%, and the District of Columbia by a margin of 75% to 24%, over Clinton. Sen. Clinton […]
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February 11, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
The presidential campaign of Barack Obama has issued a statement regarding reports of voter-registration irregularities in Louisiana that allegedly led to the denial of the vote to hundreds of people. The Obama campaign website published the following:
The Obama campaign submitted an urgent request for assistance to the Secretary of State’s Division of Elections today, after […]
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February 11, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
The presidential campaign of Mike Huckabee is “exploring all available legal options regarding the dubious final results for the state of Washington State Republican precinct caucuses”. The state’s Republican party halted the count at 87% of votes counted, a margin of just 242 votes separating John McCain from Mike Huckabee, and a reported 12,000 votes […]
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February 11, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
The presidential campaign of Barack Obama has issued a statement regarding reports of voter-registration irregularities in Louisiana that allegedly led to the denial of the vote to hundreds of people. The Obama campaign website published the following:
The Obama campaign submitted an urgent request for assistance to the Secretary of State’s Division of Elections today, after […]
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February 11, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
The presidential campaign of Mike Huckabee is “exploring all available legal options regarding the dubious final results for the state of Washington State Republican precinct caucuses”. The state’s Republican party halted the count at 87% of votes counted, a margin of just 242 votes separating John McCain from Mike Huckabee, and a reported 12,000 votes […]
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February 8, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
After winning 7 states in the “near nationwide” primary voting on Tuesday, it looked like fmr. Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has retired from the race for the Republican nomination for the presidency.
After pulling even with Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) for the first time in multiple nationwide polls, and winning 13 states on Super Tuesday, Sen. […]
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February 7, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Reports from New Mexico are demonstrating a range of problems that faced voters during the Super Tuesday “nationwide primary” Democratic party caucuses there. The New Mexico caucus system is run by the party itself, and involves actual paper ballots, cast by each individual voting. But the list of voters eligible to participate is not maintained […]
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February 7, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Reports from New Mexico are demonstrating a range of problems that faced voters during the Super Tuesday “nationwide primary” Democratic party caucuses there. The New Mexico caucus system is run by the party itself, and involves actual paper ballots, cast by each individual voting. But the list of voters eligible to participate is not maintained […]
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February 6, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
As the most widespread presidential primary vote in US history took place yesterday, across the continent and beyond (American Samoa also voted), there were glitches, confusion and unjustifiable waits in states across the country. Three examples stand out: touchscreen machines failing in New Jersey, a suspiciously confusing ballot in Los Angeles, and multiple irregularities in […]
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February 6, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
As the most widespread presidential primary vote in US history took place yesterday, across the continent and beyond (American Samoa also voted), there were glitches, confusion and unjustifiable waits in states across the country. Three examples stand out: touchscreen machines failing in New Jersey, a suspiciously confusing ballot in Los Angeles, and multiple irregularities in […]
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February 6, 2008 :: admin :: 2 Comments
The figures from the biggest day of primary voting in US history are coming in, and reveal a lot of interesting detail about the make-up of the campaigns. Sen. John McCain was the day’s big winner, though he did not win enough delegates to seal the nomination. McCain, still struggling to convince many conservative Republicans, […]
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February 5, 2008 :: admin :: 4 Comments
The biggest prize in the Super Tuesday 24-state primary vote today will be California, with more than 36 million inhabitants, the most populous state in the nation. Observers expect Clinton and Obama to nearly split the delegates available, which amount to more than 50% of the total. The Republican contest could be close to being […]
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January 10, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Across the United States, problems are being discovered with what are supposed to be the state of the art in balloting technology: digital touchscreen voting machines. Security questions were raised initially when the machines were widely distributed, by a handful of companies, with no hard-copy record of voters’ intent, which led to a nationwide movement […]
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January 10, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Across the United States, problems are being discovered with what are supposed to be the state of the art in balloting technology: digital touchscreen voting machines. Security questions were raised initially when the machines were widely distributed, by a handful of companies, with no hard-copy record of voters’ intent, which led to a nationwide movement […]
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January 9, 2008 :: admin :: One Comment
Sen. Hillary Clinton declared winner by some news organizations in NH, with 39% of vote while less than 70% of precincts were reporting, CNN waited until Obama campaign said he would speak ahead of Clinton, called NH for Clinton while she led Obama 39% to 36%, with 80% reporting…
McCain declared winner early, with significant […]
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January 4, 2008 :: admin :: One Comment
Barack Obama takes 38% of Democratic caucus-goers, John Edwards in 2nd at 30%, Hillary Clinton in 3rd at 29%, while Mike Huckabee won the Republican caucuses with 34%, Mitt Romney in 2nd at 25%; Fred Thompson and John McCain were separated at one point by fewer than 40 votes in contest for GOP 3rd place, […]
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January 3, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
UNIQUE SYSTEM BRINGS MUCH DIRECT CANDIDATE-VOTER INTERACTION, DESPITE INDIRECT MEASURE OF VOTER PREFERENCE
Often treated by mass media reporting as an “idiosyncratic” or “archaic” process, the Iowa caucuses are voters’ first opportunity to weigh the value of the spectrum of candidates running for the office of the presidency. A caucus is not a vote, as […]
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