Elections

Judge orders English ballot printed in Puerto Rico - Seattle Post Intelligencer
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A federal judge on Wednesday ordered election officials to add an English translation to Spanish-only ballots for November elections. But the president of the State Elections Commission said it may be impossible to meet a ...

Elections chief faces conflict-of-interest questions - Las Cruces Sun-News
New Mexico Republicans are up in arms over what they say is a potential conflict of interest in the state Bureau of Elections and its newly appointed director, a relative of a U.S. Senate candidate. A spokesman for Secretary of State Mary Herrera ...

Democrats nominate Obama as president, first black to lead a major ... - Chicago Tribune
DENVER (AP) _ Barack Obama, standing where no black has ever stood before, swept to the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday as thousands of national convention delegates cheered his improbable triumph. Former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton ...

Slots foes ask rewrite - Baltimore Sun
Slots opponents proposed alternative language Wednesday for a voter referendum on November's ballot that would legalize slot machine casinos across the state. Scott Arceneaux of Marylanders United to Stop Slots, a ballot committee, submitted the ...

Livni widens lead in race to replace Olmert - Reuters UK
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni will easily win leadership elections in the ruling Kadima party to replace embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, poll results showed on Thursday. The survey in the daily Maariv showed Livni ...

Iraq's holy city of Najaf witnessing a boom - International Herald Tribune
NAJAF, Iraq : The city's first airport is weeks away from opening, but already a bigger one is talked about. Land prices are soaring. Merchants say they don't remember business ever being so good. Four years ago, Najaf was an urban battlefield with ...

Pakistani lawyers to press government - Reuters
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani lawyers were set to launch protests on Thursday pressing the government to reinstate judges purged by former president Pervez Musharraf, as militants attacked police in the northwest, killing 11 people. Disagreement ...

Pak presidential election on Sept 6 - Hindustan Times
Pakistan will hold a presidential poll on September 6 to choose a successor to Pervez Musharraf, who stepped down on Monday to avoid impeachment charges, the Election Commission announced on Friday. "Presidential elections will be held on September 6 ...

Obama aims to take rhetoric beyond `change' - Miami Herald
DENVER A triumphant Barack Obama will claim his piece of American history Thursday night, becoming the first black American to win a major-party presidential nomination. As he celebrates that milestone, he must begin his more challenging courtship of ...

More school districts ask voters to raise tax rates - Houston Chronicle
A growing number of Texas school districts are asking voters to agree to tax rate increases this year to cover employee raises, greater fuel costs and rising utility bills. School boards in Austin and Corpus Christi made the decision this week to ...