Elections
Five steps to get ready for 2012
April 22, 2011Politics is a complex and impure process, and as the Rolling Stones sang, "You can't always get what you want." Here are five crucial steps to get what we need.
Read moreLeft advances in Peru’s elections
April 21, 2011The most left-wing presidential candidate came from behind and bested a whole array of right-wing candidates to enter a runoff election.
Read moreRecall fight makes history in Wisconsin
April 19, 2011Supporters of public-sector unions in Wisconsin filed enough petition signatures to force two Republican senators into recall elections, only four of which have ever been carried out in the state's history.
Read moreLawmaker requests federal probe of Wisconsin election
April 12, 2011Rep. Tammy Baldwin has asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to launch a federal probe into the handling of disputed vote records in Wisconsin's April 5 state Supreme Court elections.
Read moreFederal probe demanded in Wisconsin election scandal
April 8, 2011Republican County Clerk Kathy Nicolaus took the election data off the county's computer network and put it on stand-alone computers accessible only in her office.
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