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Seventy-eight of the council's 82 voting members were present for the elections, and Liston was elected by a majority on the first ballot. No absentee ballots were submitted...
Braswell did not garner a majority of the vote on the first ballot, but beat...
Colon says she hadn't intended to vote at all, but when a Democratic Party worker came to her door last October asking her to cast a ballot for his party's state senate candidate, Colon showed him the garbage and asked for his help. The visitor assured her that the Democrats would remove the debris if she just signed a form requesting it. She did and was so delighted at the prospect of a clean backyard that she changed her mind and decided to vote. "I was really happy that they were going to clean...
What Colon didn't know was that the vote she cast in the booth was her second; the form she had signed to remove the trash was actually an absentee ballot. She was not alone. While state and federal investigators dropped their probes last month into charges of suppression of black voters in New Jersey's gubernatorial race, a voting-fraud scandal roared to life in Pennsylvania. Republicans claim that in a special election last fall to fill a vacancy in the state senate, hundreds of voters in the mostly blue-collar second district of Pennsylvania were tricked into casting...
...takes a politically transparent no-new-taxes pledge, rushes to embrace Weld's proposal on welfare reform and crime, votes to repeal a ballot-endorsed corporate tax disclosure plan and continues to waffle on a graduated income tax," says Braude, who may enter the race...