Elections

March 3, 2008 -- Washington, DC –Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE) issued the following statement on Sunday’s elections in Russia:

“Dmitry Medvedev is taking over one of the toughest jobs in the world. Russia is facing endemic corruption, demographic collapse, a brewing insurgency in the North Caucasus and spiraling inflation.    » read more »

Reports No Significant Voter Problems In Alabama During Super Tuesday

March 03, 2008 -- MONTGOMERY -- Alabama Governor Bob Riley is telling a federal judge today that Alabama had no significant problems with its new voter registration system during last month’s presidential primaries and he wants to relinquish his court-appointed responsibility for the system and turn it back over to the Secretary of State.    » read more »

02 March 2008 -- With nearly all of the ballots counted, Dmitri Medvedev has 70 percent of the vote. While the result is hardly a surprise, two of his opponents are crying foul.

Speaking at a political rally on Red Square just hours after polls closed, incumbent President Vladimir Putin said his hand-picked candidate, Dmitri Medvedev, was enjoying a convincing lead in the vote count. He said victory entails enormous responsibility, adding that it will ensure continuation of what he termed the "successful policies of the past eight years."    » read more »

02/12/2008 -- California Governor Schwarzenegger issued the following proclamation today, declaring June 3, 2008 the date for a special election in California's 12th Congressional District (most of San Mateo County and a portion of San Francisco County), to elect a congressional representative to fill the vacancy created by the death of Congressman Thomas P. Lantos:

SPECIAL ELECTION PROCLAMATION

BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA    » read more »

Feb. 11, 2008 -- Colorado Governor Bill Ritter today signed bipartisan legislation that will allow Secretary of State Mike Coffman to begin the review and recertification process for electronic voting machines that the Secretary decertified in December.

House Bill 08-1155's chief sponsors were Rep. David Balmer, R-Centennial, and Sen. Ken Gordon, D-Denver.    » read more »

02/09/2008 -- English and Spanish transcripts of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's weekly radio address, hosted this week by Secretary of State Debra Bowen, are below.

Secretary of State Bowen:

Hi, this is Secretary of State Debra Bowen, filling in for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger with another California Report.

As the state's chief election officer, I was very excited to see millions of Californians from across the state cast their votes on Tuesday.    » read more »

February 6, 2008 -- SANTA FE, NM - New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson today issued the following statement regarding the state’s Democratic Presidential caucus.

“I am proud that so many New Mexico Democrats turned out to vote in yesterday’s caucus. The unprecedented interest and activism in the primary process shows that New Mexicans take seriously their important role in choosing the next President. Make no mistake, New Mexico’s 26 delegates matter greatly."    » read more »

February 06, 2008 -- MONTGOMERY - Voting during Alabama’s Super Tuesday primaries went smoothly and efficiently all across the state as Alabama’s new voter registration system got its first real-life test.    » read more »

06 February 2008 -- Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama split victories in primary elections and caucuses Tuesday, known as Super Tuesday, when voters in two dozen American states voiced their preference for presidential nominees. Mike O'Sullivan reports, John McCain scored important wins over two rivals, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, to claim the title of frontrunner in the Republican race.    » read more »

- Charles Gibson, Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos will Anchor Unprecedented Coverage of Coast-to-Coast Presidential Primaries and Caucuses on Tuesday, February 5
- "Showdown: Coast to Coast" Begins at 8:00 p.m., ET and Continues Across All Time Zones as Results Become Known

- Robert Siegel, Michele Norris, Scott Simon and Andrea Seabrook Anchor
- Reporters in Every Key State, 20 Locations Nationally

Washington, D.C. January 30, 2008 – NPR News “Election 2008” will offer seven consecutive hours of live, comprehensive broadcast and webcast coverage of Super Tuesday on February 5, from 8:00PM-3:00AM (ET).

Two teams of NPR News hosts will anchor the coverage of the landmark event from NPR’s worldwide headquarters in Washington, D.C., with 20 correspondents reporting from the field.    » read more »

30 January 2008 -- Official results from Cuba's recent parliamentary elections show that interim President Raul Castro has won more votes that his ailing older brother, Fidel Castro, in uncontested polling for the legislature known as the National Assembly.

The government Wednesday released results showing that the 76-year-old Raul Castro received 99.4 percent of the ballots cast in the family's base of Santiago in eastern Cuba. It was the highest percentage in the country.    » read more »

Bipartisan Effort Calls for Peaceful Resolution to Current Electoral Crisis in Kenya

January 28, 2008 -- Washington D.C. – U.S. Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI) and John Sununu (R-NH), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs respectively, introduced a resolution today calling for a peaceful political resolution to Kenya’s contested presidential election in December 2007.    » read more »

27 January 2008 -- Russia's Election Commission has barred former prime minister and Kremlin critic Mikhail Kasyanov from the March presidential election.

The commission ruled Sunday that Kasyanov had tens of thousands of invalid signatures on his nominating petition.

Independent candidates need at least two million valid signatures from across the country to register to run for president.

A Kasyanov spokeswoman says the upcoming presidential election will be a farce. She says the Kremlin is scared of competition and someone with different opinions.    » read more »

January 23, 2008 -- Colorado Governor Ritter and a group of bipartisan lawmakers today announced new legislation for conducting the 2008 elections by using paper ballots at polling places while maintaining voter choice through options such as early or absentee mail voting.

"One of the most basic roles of government is to provide for elections that are fair, reliable, transparent and convenient for voters," Gov. Ritter said. "Our democracy depends not only on the people's ability to vote, but also on their confidence that every vote counts.    » read more »