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I heard one commentator last night saying the Europeans were looking at the exit polls very closely and were concerned. This also makes sense with the obvious consolidation of exit polling into AP alone and the strange 'failure' of the only other exit polling company besides AP in 2000 (VNS), so that exit polling data cannot be examined. International observers complained they had worse access to polls than in the Middle East, and states like Florida are suddenly making strange laws that no...

It is now 12 Midnight Eastern time on the night of Nov.2. At this point in time the election results are still very much in doubt. Although it is clear that there has been widespread voter intimidation, fraud or suppression, it is not yet clear whether these have affected the outcome of the election....

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:...

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (CNN) -- Florida voters cast an "incredible number" of absentee ballots in Tuesday's presidential election, and counting them may take until Thursday, Secretary of State Glenda Hood said Tuesday night....

DALLAS -- Dallas elections judge Julian Dean Helms was removed from his post early Tuesday after he pushed a U.S. Justice Department elections observer out the door of his polling place, the Dallas County Sheriff's Department said....

Meanwhile, I-Team 8 has learned of voters who were turned away because of what they were wearing to vote. I-Team 8 is investigating one case in which 27-year-old Scott Long of Morgan County walked in with a T-shirt. A takeoff of "Got milk?" it said "Got Bush?" for George Bush. He was pulled out of line and told he couldn't vote....

Voting irregularities were reported in: Louisiana, Florida, Ohio, and Wisconsin...

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....

Now is the time to make sure everyone gets to the polls and casts their vote. But we also know that there also have already been major voting rights problems, and that’s why tens of thousands have already signed the No Stolen Elections! pledge....