Voting
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D.C. Council to consider moving primary to June
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The primary is scheduled for April 1, 2014. But Council Chairman Phil Mendelson says that's too early. He introduced legislation Tuesday that would move it to June 11.
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Anita Bonds wins at-large D.C. Council seat
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Turnout was extremely low for Tuesday's special election, but that didn't phase Democrat Anita Bonds, who retained her at-large seat on the D.C. Council.
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Takoma Park City Council to vote on lowering voting age
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The Takoma Park City Council will vote Monday night on a proposal to lower the legal voting age for local elections to 16. It's likely to pass with six of the city's seven city council members behind it.
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Homeless groups plan rally, march for D.C. election
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Homeless people are planning to rally and march in Washington to declare they are voters.
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D.C. Board of Elections sends new notices on special election
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The D.C. Board of Elections has admitted that the notices of the upcoming special election have confused some voters about where and when people can vote. And so, they're mailing out new notices with clearer information. At a cost of about $30,000.
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McDonnell signs bill mandating photo ID to vote
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Virginia joins four other states that have strict photo ID requirements in place for elections, an action Democrats decried as a Jim Crow-era tactic to suppress the votes of the elderly, minorities and the underprivileged.
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Supreme Court to weigh Arizona voter registration case
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The Supreme Court will struggle this week with the validity of an Arizona law that tries to keep illegal immigrants from voting by demanding all state residents show documents proving their U.S. citizenship before registering to vote in national elections.
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Maryland Senate changes early voting bill to add more polls
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The Maryland Senate has changed a bill to expand early voting to enable some rural counties to add an extra voting center.
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Photo ID voting mandate passes in Virginia, heads to governor
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On a 65-34 vote, the House completed legislative action on a strict photo identification bill that would require all voters to present identification such as a drivers license or passport bearing a photo of the holder to cast a regular ballot.
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Va. bill would chage voter ID requirements
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Lawmakers in the Virginia General Assembly are behind a bill to limit the forms of acceptable identification when you vote. The proposal, which passed in both the Senate and the House along partisan lines, forces voters to present more sophisticated forms of identification.
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Monopoly fans vote to toss 1 token, add new piece
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The voting on Facebook is scheduled to close just before midnight Tuesday.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton introduces 2 D.C. voting-rights bills
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One bill introduced Wednesday by Democratic Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton would give the district two U.S. senators and a House member. The other would give the city just a House member.
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GOP-dominated panels kill absentee-voting measures
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Two Republican-dominated General Assembly panels have again killed efforts to allow no-excuses absentee voting in Virginia and join 34 states that allow early voting.
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Va., Md. reps sponsor forum on voting problems
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U.S. Reps. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and Elijah Cummings, D-Md., heard stories from voters who endured lines of more than three hours at polling places across northern Virginia.
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Filibuster reform; Fiscal cliff; Long voting lines; Shanahan's comments
CommentToday on NewsTalk we spoke with Marty Kady, Doug Lewis, and J.P. Flaime.
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Presidential election 2012: Report voting problems across the D.C. area
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Polls will soon open across the nation and the Washington, D.C. area, and we want to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to cast their ballot without a problem. If you had one, though, find out how to report it here.
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Election Day 2012: Voters to pick the next president
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President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have made their last-minute pitches to voters and now it’s time for the voters to decide who’s the best fit for the White House.
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D.C. Jail helps inmates vote, a rarity nationwide
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While it seemed ordinary, the voting that went on at the D.C. Jail and a facility where women are housed next door is unique.
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