In a decision praised by voting rights advocates, the Justice Department ruled against Georgia's voter verification program, calling the citizenship screening system flawed and unfair to minorities. More...
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The 2008 elections showed the South is changing fast. But the minds of the nation's pundits seem stuck in Gone with the Wind. More...
Barack Obama comes into office today, but does it signal change in the South? Read our latest issue of Southern Exposure to find out! More...
The Texas Democratic Party has dropped its courtroom challenges to Republican Linda Harper-Brown's narrow win over Democrat Bob Romano in a Dallas County state House race, making it more likely that the Republicans will maintain a narrow edge in the chamber. But the party is still pursuing its federal case over the counting of so-called "emphasis votes" cast on electronic machines. More...
The judge does not require them to be counted, and he leaves it up to the U.S. Justice Department and State Board of Elections to draw up a plan for preventing future problems. More...
The 2008 elections didn't deliver the "record voter turnout" many anticipated -- except in the South, which set an example for the nation. More...
Low turnout among African-American voters was a key factor in U.S. Rep. William Jefferson's loss to Anh "Joseph" Cao, an attorney and activist in New Orleans' Vietnamese-American community. More...
A lawsuit filed under the federal Voting Rights Act over a state House runoff takes aim at a plan to let so-called "emphasis votes" -- votes cast for a particular candidate in addition to a straight-ticket vote for his or her party -- go uncounted when cast by machine. More...
TUES 12/2/08 -- In 2002, Sen. Saxby Chambliss accused his war veteran and triple-amputee opponent of being soft on terrorism, even putting his picture next to Osama bin Laden. As Georgia votes today in a hard-fought runoff, the 9/11 tragedy is getting dredged up again. More...
The United States saw dramatic increases in the number of ballots cast by traditionally underrepresented groups, according to an analysis released last week by Project Vote. In The Demographics of Voters in America's 2008 General Election: A Preliminary Assessment, Project... More...
With much at stake in the outcome of Tuesday's runoff between incumbent U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss and challenger Jim Martin, political heavyweights are hitting the campaign trail to promote the candidates. But some of those appearances raise questions about whose interests will be represented in Washington. More...
NC turning blue in 2008 wasn't a one-year fluke -- it's part of an historic trend More...
The 2008 elections proved Southern states are some of the nation's biggest battlegrounds. Then why are so many pundits saying it's time to write off the South? More...
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R) - who faces a run-off election next week -- is resisting an order to give evidence in a lawsuit by families of victims from the Imperial Sugar Co. explosions this year. More...
The Senate Judiciary Committee has released a report on its investigation into "the unprecedented mass firings of Federal prosecutors" by the Bush Administration. The dubious debate over "voter fraud" plays center stage. More...
The economy was the probably the biggest issue to elect Barack Obama. But the Democrats were helped by another big factor: Obama's strong support among Latino voters.Nationally, 9 percent of the electorate identified as Hispanic in exit polls, and 67%... More...
The administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston has repudiated a South Carolina priest who told his parishioners they should not take Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama.The Sunday after the election, Rev. Jay Scott Newman of... More...
Facing South has reported on the changing political landscape of the South, arguing that with the social, economic, and demographic changes occurring across the region, there is a need for a new political strategy to address the South's emerging relevance.... More...
Stateline.org has a useful map looking at partisan power at the state level after the 2008 elections.This map, much more useful than the presidential red state/blue state fare we usually see, gives a much better sense of the contested and... More...
A teacher at a North Carolina college filed a formal complaint with the Avery County Board of Elections after discovering some polling precincts posted inaccurate Spanish-language instructions for marking a ballot.Rachel Chrane noticed the problem when she voted last week... More...
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