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A collection of the most current news and information, including the latest election results and everything you need to know about the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election published by Tribune Company sources. Read more on the election results 2008.
A collection of the most current news and information, including the latest election results and everything you need to know about the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election published by Tribune Company sources. Read more on the election results 2008.
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Inauguration hotel rooms: Pennsylvania
The Swampby Andrew Zajac Pennsylvania tourism types used to boast that "You've Got A Friend in Pennsylvania". More recently, the Keystone state's marketing mavens have asserted that "America Begins Here." Those catchphrases could stand a little freshening up for...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Lancaster (Lancaster, Virginia), Tourism and Leisure, Government, Washington, DC
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Woman seeks limits on mentally disabled voters
A Deep River woman wants to change a state law to require that mentally disabled voters be supervised when they cast a ballot. Brenda Lyddon says she was upset when staff at a group home in Grinnell took her 26-year-old son, who is developmentally...Tags: John McCain, Election Day, Referenda
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Voters to be questioned on Jeffersonville ballots
A special prosecutor investigating possible vote fraud in the city's 2007 Democratic mayoral primary election said he planned to take depositions Friday from 21 people who cast absentee ballots in the race. Ron Simpson said investigators for the Indiana...Tags: Justice System, Lawyers, Prosecution, Referenda, Primaries
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Nassau's minority turnout -- Just above '04?
Spin CycleClearly there are still questions to be explored about Election Day results. An example: As Newsday's Celeste Hadrick reports, Nassau election officials are puzzled over a relatively low turnout in minority communities on Election Day -- despite the...Tags: Garden City (Garden City, New York), Kemp Hannon, Election Day, Uniondale, Hempstead (Hempstead, New York)
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Alderman tries to eliminate inspector's office
Chicago's inspector general has survived an attempt by an irate alderman to eliminate the post. Alderman Bernard Stone on Monday attempted to write Inspector General David Hoffman out of the city budget in retaliation for an absentee ballot fraud...Tags: Bernard Stone, Referenda, Chicago Sun-Times
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Editorials from Wisconsin newspapers
ANSWER TO DECEPTIVE ADS IS TRANSPARENCYAs soon as the dust settled on Campaign '08 in Wisconsin, the winners started to talk about doing something about the negative campaigning conducted by the losing side -- as if they didn't have some pretty questionable tactics of their own. Here's the...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Tourism and Leisure, Smoking, Government, Florida
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Minnesota news in brief at 8:58 p.m. CST
A perfume company is claiming Prince and his music publisher failed to honor a contract to help market a fragrance named for the album "3121." The breach-of-contract lawsuit was filed Monday by Revelations Perfume and Cosmetics Inc. in New York. The...Tags: Al Franken, Fragrances, Prosecution, Heavy Engineering, Crimes
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Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown urges high court to let Prop. 8 take effect
As more lawsuits against Proposition 8 landed before the California Supreme Court, Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown and the anti-gay-marriage campaign urged the court Monday to review the suits but allow the measure to remain in effect during that review.
Brown,...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Jerry Brown, Family, Court Administration, Local Authority
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Franken hones case for examining rejected absentee ballots before Minnesota recount
Associated Press WriterST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ Democrat Al Franken's Senate campaign, trailing slightly just before a statewide recount, argued Monday that a key Minnesota election board should examine rejected absentee ballots before certifying the race results. Those...Tags: Al Franken, Local Elections, Election Day, Referenda, Minnesota
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Why Howard was sixth on my NL MVP ballot
My concern, in filling out my 2008 National League Most Valuable Player ballot, was that people would ask me, "You placed Ryan Howard sixth, even though he had a great September?" What I ultimately realized was, the answer to that question is, "No, I...Tags: Baseball, Albert Pujols, Referenda, Philadelphia Phillies, Major League Baseball
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Justice Department replaces McCain campaign as plaintiff in Va. lawsuit over absentee ballots
Associated Press WriterRICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ The U.S. Justice Department has replaced John McCain's presidential campaign as the plaintiff in a lawsuit demanding that Virginia election officials count late absentee ballots from military personnel serving outside the state. U.S....Tags: Laws, Justice System, John McCain, 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, Referenda
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Alaska Senate race tilts to Democrat
The Swampby Frank James Senate Democrats now have 57 members in their caucus, including two independents, and are awaiting the outcome of three additional races in Alaska, Minnesota and Georgia. Getting those three additional seats would allow them to get......Tags: Upper House, Anchorage, Government, Ted Stevens, Georgia
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