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  • Indians vote early in fifth phase of polls to avoid scorching heat
    India began voting in the fifth phase of its mammoth general elections on Monday, with seats in the financial capital Mumbai and the opposition's Gandhi family bastions set to be sealed in the last ...
    05/19/2024 - 3:36 pm | View Link
  • Can you vote? Early voting starts Monday in runoff elections
    Early voting starts Monday in the party primary election runoffs. Only one race will appear on Wichita County ballots and not all county residents will get to vote. The race is for the 30 th District ...
    05/18/2024 - 9:52 pm | View Link
  • In more than half of the states, voting this year will be harder than it was four years ago, new report finds
    Americans in more than half the states will face voting restrictions this year that weren’t in place four years ago during the last presidential election, a new analysis finds.
    05/17/2024 - 7:46 am | View Link
  • The Protest Vote That Still Haunts Me 50 Years Later
    In 1968, as a college student, I didn’t vote for Hubert Humphrey. I regretted the decision almost immediately—and still do.
    05/16/2024 - 11:02 pm | View Link
  • Measuring the Trump vote: a years-long headache for US pollsters
    That vote produced polling errors of "unusual magnitude" -- the highest in 40 years for the popular vote, and 20 years for state-level estimates, according to a report by the American Association for ...
    05/9/2024 - 12:59 pm | View Link
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