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Jon Stewart used a famous Seinfeld joke to explain how Republicans are approaching trying to woo black voters.
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The Supreme Court handed down one voting rights ruling on Monday, and left another for a later day. Both cases are very different but, in a way, still very reflective of how attitudes about race in this country are changing — and where the change comes from, exactly.
Jon Stewart used a famous Seinfeld joke to explain how Republicans are approaching trying to woo black voters.
Authorities have confirmed tor the first time ever, that hackers attempted and almost succeeded at rigging a Miami primary vote, uncovering underlying security issues with the online voting systems of the future.
This interactive map demonstrates how women's voting rights and roles in the political process of countries around the world have changed over time. Which is to say, slowly, but still: progress.
If Wednesday morning's oral arguments are any indication, the Supreme Court stands poised to require that a law written to protect the rights of black voters in the South be overhauled — even while the rest of the United States is riddled with uneven, unclear voting rules.
After a blog alleged that she didn't vote in this election, Dunham took to Twitter to clear up the situation. Maybe.
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Facebook, like every other Internet site today, is dominated by election stuff, which you might find annoying. But it can actually do some good in this election.
There's a viral video going around of a voting machine in Pennsylvania that seems like its rigged—it switches votes from Barack Obama to Mitt Romney. It's just one machine, but it's also perfectly encapsulates people's Election Day fears.
The iPhone had its week last week, when Instagram brought unbelievable but real images of Sandy's destruction to our attention and Twitter acted as a (mostly) reliable news and information source for many people. But Election Day, however, doesn't want any of that.
Democracy is tedious. It is tedious to run for office, it is tedious to hear from people running for office, it is tedious to vote for the person running for office. The goal of a political campaign is to make that second part as unavoidable and the third point as tedium-free as possible.
Hurricane Sandy threw a monkey wrench into New York and New Jersey's voting logistics by flooding polling sites, cutting power at others, and rendering some unusable. But we are humans and we have plan b's, and these are the ways New Jersey and New York responded:
The folks over at Northwestern's Knight Lab have a handy tool to occupy you until polls close tomorrow night: an app that predicts who your favorite people on Twitter are voting for.
In the aftermath of hurricane Sandy, there's some worry in New Jersey that people won't be able to cast their ballots on electronic voting machines. In the interest of preparedness, Gov. Chris Christie has authorized some funny alternative methods for people to exercise their right to vote.
Even though almost every single poll and early voting points to President Obama winning Ohio's 18 electoral votes, it hasn't stopped Democrats from hitting panic button over their quadrennial fear of Republican-controlled voting machines.
Frank Tanabe the 93-year-old World War II veteran who became Reddit-famous last week for casting the last vote of his life on his deathbed, died in Hawaii on Wednesday. We're pretty sure his vote will count.
Frank Tanabe is on his deathbed in hospice care, suffering from an inoperable cancer tumor on his liver. With the help of his daughter he filled out his one last ballot on October 18, and thanks to inefficiency and the sheer number of votes, his vote will most likely count even if he dies before election night.
The Supreme Court just issued a ruling on early voting in the state of Ohio that should help Democrats in their fight for the key battleground state of this election.
Rock the Vote, an organization whose sole purpose is to encourage more young people to vote, has an "awesome event" that will feature music, Assassin's Creed III, lots of flavored water, and voter registration, all at Chicago's Columbia College on October 12. The only problem? The last day to register to vote in Illinois is October 9.
A Reuters article out today looked at the undecided voter — you know her as a white, under-educated female or perhaps, the "Walmart mom." Let's take a look at some other descriptors.
Pennsylvania's highest court made it very clear they still have doubts about the state's restrictive voter identification law can be fairly implemented by election day, but their ruling stopped short of overruling it, asking a lower court to reconsider its decision to uphold the law.
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Just as the country gets ready for the awesome quadrennial tradition of choosing the leader of the free world, the new report from Pew Research Center has some bad voting-related news: our voter registrations rolls are't in good shape.
Aside from one controversial abortion referendum in Mississippi, Tuesday's election reflects how states are struggling through tough times.
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