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Use of marijuana for medical reasons will be legal in Montana and tobacco users will see a tax increase, voters decided Tuesday in passing a pair of ballot measures Tuesday....

The following is a statement by Kay J. Maxwell, president of the League of Women Voters, on voters flooding the polls and the election system showing signs of stress:...

Traders said part of the stock slide was due to the unconfirmed blog reports. "Apparently the blogs are saying that Kerry is ahead in one or two of the swing states and that's why the market dipped," said Lisa Hansen, head trader at Transamerica Investment Management. Pro-Kerry campaign-watching sites began trumpeting early exit poll data just before 2 p.m. These included MyDD.com, which said it had access to exit poll data showing Kerry leading in several swing states....

A number of voting irregularities in the region have prompted the allegheny county voting protection association to file a motion to keep the polls open until 9pm. One of the key problems is that there are insufficient number of legally required provisional ballots available at the polls. One young women outside the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill reported to a member of pittsburgh indymedia that although she was registered to vote in that district, her name wasn't on the list at the...

A look at some of the voter troubles in battleground states:...

Politicians create scapegoats and use them for their goals. Politicians manipulate the population because it is easier to govern with scapegoats....

Members of the Furious Five Revolutionary Collective, based out of San Jose, CA, analyze the ABB trend and respond with their own perspective....

Lawyers in five states geared up Tuesday for a series of voter challenges that promised to mark this Election Day with as much contentiousness as the presidential race it was intended to resolve. . The most dramatic court battle was playing out here in Ohio. After a short period of seesawing court decisions, a federal appeals court ruled early Tuesday that the Republican Party could place thousands of people inside polling places to challenge the eligibility of voters, a blow to Democrats w...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens Tuesday allowed Republicans to challenge voter qualifications at the polls in Ohio, a key battleground state that could determine the presidential election. Stevens acted on an emergency request shortly before polls opened in Ohio and across the nation. He refused to set aside a U.S. appeals court order that allowed political parties to send challengers to polling places across the state....

Did you know that John Kerry and John Edwards are active opponents of media consolidation and active supporters of campaign finance reform? (Did you expect corporate-owned media to tell you about this?) And is it possible that this is why the top executives of most major media corporations--FOX, Viacom, etcetera--oppose (and fear?) a Kerry presidency?...