Youth vote an Election Day wildcard
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One pitch appeals to young adults&#39; independent streaks, such as the voter registration initiative &quot;Declare Yourself.&quot;.
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A leftist party in Uruguay is hoping an online game will help it attract young voters.
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Politicians failed to tap the youth vote even after record turnout in the 2004 U.S. presidential election and will need the Internet to draw this block, a Harvard University survey showed on Friday.
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BOSTON - Tens of millions of people will cast their votes Nov. 2 in one of the most hotly contested presidential elections in recent U.S. history. But voters across the U.S. will encounter different voting technologies and procedures, with many counties nationwide clinging to punchcard, lever machine and even paper ballots, and the transition to electronic voting moving slowly in many states.
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Election day may be in November, but  some Americans will start casting ballots next week under early  voting laws that have reshaped the campaign landscape and  changed the most fundamental act of democracy.
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WASHINGTON - John Kerry says re-electing President Bush would create "the great potential of a draft." Not so, responds the incumbent: "The best way to avoid the draft is to vote for me."   The fact that both Bush and Kerry are on record opposing mandatory military service speaks volumes about the audience they're targeting with their dueling draft scares - young voters.    In an election where voter turnout is the great unknown, the voting rate and preferences of 18- to 30-year-olds may be the biggest wild card on Nov...
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Voters fill out their ballots at the 20th Precinct in West Bloomfield, Mich., on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004. Barbara Lang, third from the left, was the first person to vote.
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It&#39;s becoming increasingly clear that turnout will decide the 2004 election. While one candidate could still seize the momentum in the campaign&#39;s closing week, the election is so close in 12 states that the
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NASHUA, N.H., Jan. 8 -- Tobin Van Ostern came here for a party. The 19-year-old sophomore at George Washington University had spent three weeks devoted to Sen. Barack Obama -- in Washington, Des Moines and in Londonderry, N.H., where he knocked on 90 doors Tuesday afternoon. Election night was to be...
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There is just one day until America&#39;s voters head to the polls. Today the presidential candidates are continuing their whirlwind campaigning, trying to energize voters to get to the polls and to spark turnout in their favor.
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Some of the day's images as US voters go to the polls in primaries and caucuses
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The young nation is learning that democracy isn't easy as no party captured a majority in the country's parliamentary vote
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For college students, winter break is a time for vegging out and relying on mom and dad to do the laundry. But in Iowa, Democratic presidential campaigns are crossing their fingers that students will drag themselves to the caucuses January 3. Iowa election laws allow out-of-state students attending college there to vote.
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Move over &quot;Nascar Dads.&quot; Step aside &quot;Security Moms.&quot; The hottest new voting bloc is the hip-hop generation, said rap empresario Sean &quot;P. Diddy&quot; Combs, who criticized the major political parties for not courting the urban youth vote.
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The nation's capital and its suburbs have a rare opportunity to help decide a presidential election rather than just obsess about it, as next Tuesday's three-jurisdiction contest centers on Washington and its two neighbors.
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Surveys show that interest in the election among the young is near the highest level it has reached at any time since 18- to 20-year-olds were given the vote in 1972.
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Complaint sheets in hand, a voters' bill of rights in their kit, a small army of volunteers has descended on the battleground state of Florida to watch over Tuesday's voting and help avert a repeat of the 2000 election debacle.