Regional Elections

Massachusetts voters head to the polls for Senate primary

2013-04-30 11:21:00

SOMERVILLE, Mass. – Stephen Lynch was in a hurry on Friday morning, first to a pair of diners along Broadway, then down the street to a firehouse. By day’s end, he’d hit 18 stops in six cities and towns in the Boston area, as he worked...

Early help for L.A.'s early voters

2013-04-09 00:00:00

Official sample ballots for Los Angeles' May 21 election will be available April 22, a little less than two weeks from now. Voters who just want to get the whole thing over with — and let's be frank, don't we all? — can actually vote by mail...

California-born voter turnout trails that of nonnative residents

2013-03-29 08:59:00

Voters born in California are less likely to participate in the state’s elections than voters born elsewhere who now live in the Golden State, according to a report by Political Data Inc. that surprised its author. Some 73% of California-born...

In voting districts, should every person count?

2013-03-28 00:00:00

The Supreme Court will hold a hearing Friday, in Lepak vs. City of Irving, to decide if it will take a case on whether the principle of "one person, one vote" should be clarified to allow the exclusion of noncitizens. "One person, one vote" was...

Arizona voting law disenfranchises citizens

2013-03-20 00:00:00

It's a familiar story: Out of an exaggerated concern about potential election fraud, a state adopts procedures that have the effect of disenfranchising perfectly qualified voters. In this case, the state of Arizona is demanding that would-be voters...

Michael Dukakis to help Rep. Brad Sherman retire campaign debt

2013-02-19 11:32:00

Former Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis and his wife, Kitty, are helping with a "debt retirement" fundraiser for Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks), who last fall won one of the most contentious -- and most expensive -- House races in the...

German education minister refuses to resign over plagiarism finding

2013-02-06 11:07:00

Germany's education minister defied calls for her resignation Wednesday after a university stripped her of her doctorate upon concluding she had plagiarized parts of her thesis. Allegations that Annette Schavan had lifted parts of her 1980 thesis...

Expect a stealth leadership struggle in post-Chavez Venezuela

2013-01-11 02:00:00

Chavismo is alive and well in Venezuela, which is more than can be said with confidence about the man who inspired it. President Hugo Chavez remains so ill and incommunicado a month after undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba that he missed his inauguration...

A third way on immigration

2012-12-16 00:00:00

The debate over U.S. immigration policy has been rebooted. There now appears to be bipartisan support for what's generally called comprehensive reform. But a stumbling block remains: What to do about the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants among us....

Pasadena councilman targeted for recall over NFL-Rose Bowl vote

2013-01-11 11:14:41

The long March -- to Los Angeles elections

2013-01-14 11:53:00

Why do Los Angeles city elections seem simultaneously so anticlimatic -- and so exhausting? There may be many reasons, but no doubt one of them is the calendar. City elections take place the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March every odd-...

Your vote, L.A.'s future

2012-12-16 00:00:00

Think of last month's election — with its presidential contest, its 11 statewide ballot measures, its additional three countywide questions, the district attorney's race and voters' first full-scale workout with the new district lines and the top-...

Chief Minister Narendra Modi speaks to supporters in Ahmedabad, India, during a celebration Thursday of the Bharatiya Janta Party's victory in the Gujarat assembly election.

2012-12-20 10:19:03

State election

2012-11-08 05:48:00

German Chancellor Angela Merkel grimaces as she addresses a press conference following a poor showing by her Christian Democratic Party (CDU) in regional elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, at the CDU headquarters in Berlin. Merkel said her party's heavy losses in a crucial regional German vote

2012-05-14 00:00:00