Poverty linked to spoiled ballots
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The highest proportion of rejected constituency votes in the Scottish election came in its most deprived areas, a study has found.
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Low-income families eat better when given vouchers to farmers' markets.
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After the 2000 election, counties around the country rushed to buy new computerized voting machines. But it turns out that these machines may cause problems worse than hanging chads. Is America ready for another contested election?
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The Census Bureau reported today that 36.5 million Americans, or 12.3 percent, were living in poverty last year, down from 12.6 percent in 2005.
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Among the security concerns that have been raised is the possibility of someone being able to cast multiple ballots. Other concerns are about a sudden power outage and whether data would be lost in such a scenario.
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Questions over the reliability of optical scan ballots, which are marked and scanned like a standardized test, could slow down the vote-counting process, according to election officials.
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Millions of U.S. citizens, including  a disproportionate number of black voters, will be blocked from  voting in the Nov. 2 presidential election because of legal  barriers, faulty procedures or dirty tricks, according to civil  rights and legal experts.
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Some 1.3 million Americans slid into  poverty in 2003 as the ranks of the poor swelled to 35.9  million, with children and blacks worse off than most, the U.S.  government said on Thursday in a report sure to fuel Democratic  criticism of President Bush.
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Election reforms helped lead to the lowest level of invalid ballots ever measured in a presidential or gubernatorial election in Florida last year, according to a report released Tuesday.
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The poverty rate dipped in 2006, the first significant decline in the Bush presidency. Median household income bumped up slightly.
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Absentee voters in the most populous county of a critical state in the presidential election are complaining about a ballot layout that they say might prompt some people to choose the wrong candidate, or none at all.
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Margarita Saldana looks around her community and sees poor-paying jobs and discrimination against workers who don't speak English. When she contemplates how to vote on Election Day, she sees little difference between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry.
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A minimum-wage paycheck falls well short of what many Tri-State residents need to cover rent, according to a study released Monday by the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
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A national voting rights group says it documented hundreds of voting irregularities affecting poor and minority voters in seven Southern states &#151; from long lines and faulty equipment to deliberate voter intimidation.
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As Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards ramps up his anti-poverty initiative this weekend, he will be confronting a deep popularity deficit among his party's poorest voters.
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A small study conducted in a Boston neighborhood highlights the difficulty of affording heart-healthy food when you&#39;re a beneficiary of food stamps.
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The heated Bush-Kerry race might seem reason enough for voters to turn out on Nov. 2, but in many states extra incentive is provided by divisive ballot measures on topics ranging from marijuana legalization and minimum wages to malpractice and same-sex marriage.