Cheeks Kilpatrick triumphs in close primary race

After a rocky start, Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick defeated her two opponents in yesterday's Democratic state primary."Early results Tuesday showed the six-term congresswoman trailing both her opponents, but as the night wore on and more Detroit numbers came in, she pulled...

Oklahoma 19-year-old named town's mayor

A 19-year-old freshman Sooner was elected mayor of Muskogee, Oklahoma.  Muskogee has a population of just over 38,000.  Even though only 19, John Tyler Hammons is not the youngest to ever be elected mayor...

Clinton wins Pennsylvania primary by a 12-delegate margin

Sen. Hillary Clinton picked up two more delegates today in Pennsylvania, 10 days after voters went to the polls."The new delegates increased her margin of victory to 12 delegates, giving Clinton a total of 85...

Ex-Aide Wounded in Cult Inquiry Wins House Seat in California

An amazing story, from the Jonestown Massacre to this."Jackie Speier, who as a Congressional aide nearly 30 years ago was shot and left for dead on a Guyana airstrip, won a special election Tuesday for the House seat...

Obama Pimping it to the White House

Looks like Billary is in serious trouble....Rock it out Obama...all the way to Pennsylvania Avenue."Obama and Huckabee have done well in caucus states like Iowa, where grass-roots efforts are more likely to have...

Florida: Problems Swamp Voting Precincts

Politiiste's Continuing Coverage of the Florida Primary  Politisite's Florida Near Real Time Election Results, Tonight at 4 in the West, 7 in the East, and 0000 hrs UTC (GMT) Central Florida "Election...

The Scooter Files: Washington X-Ray

" The Scooter Files: Washington X-Ray Rick Perlstein June 06, 2007 Personally, I find the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby letters fascinating, an unmatched window into that most baffling of questions for ordinary citizens: how Washington thinks, especially, but not exclusively,...

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How to really watch Election '06

"In an ideal world, we would be blessed with the "Old-Fashioned Election Night Channel," which would merely show raw-vote totals from key races around the country. The only on-air commentary would come from veteran...

Expert Swears He Wrote An Election Fix For Florida

A prototype election fixing program written that was virtually undetectable.

Cuyahoga County OHIO Possibly Exposed Election System to Computer Virus

The memory cards used in Diebold touchscreen voting systems could carry computer viruses that would infect voting machines and steal votes on the infected machines.

Is Your Voting Machine Set To *Manual Mode*?

Sequoia Touch-Screen Voting Machines. There's a yellow button on the back. If it's set to "Manual Mode", one person can cast multiple votes.  

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