Obama to Kenya: Reject violence during election
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - United States President Barack Obama is urging citizens in his father's homeland of Kenya to reject intimidation and violence in next month's national elections...
Lawmakers propose bills to combat voter lines
theGRIO REPORT - Members of Congress have introduced election reform bills that would aim to reduce long waits at the polls and clear confusion around the voting process...
Alabama voters keep Jim Crow language in constitution
theGRIO REPORT - Alabama voters turned down an amendment to the state's constitution in Tuesday's elections that would have removed racist language from the document...
Poll problems cropping up in spots around US
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sporadic problems were reported Tuesday at polling places around the country, including a confrontation in Pennsylvania involving Republican inspectors over access to some polls and a last-minute court fight in Ohio over election software...
Gallup: Majority of Americans expect Obama to win re-election
theGRIO REPORT - According to interviews conducted by Gallup's polling site, no matter how people plan on voting, Americans still believe that President Obama has a better chance for re-election...
Nervous Democrats eye Ohio Secretary of State
theGRIO REPORT- Some Democrats and activists are looking warily at Secretary of State Jon Husted, the man some say could decide the election in the state, and therefore in the country...
Elections chief on 'missing' FL voters
theGRIO REPORT - Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes is responding to theGrio's story Monday detailing significant changes to the voter tallies on the first day of Florida early voting...
Are Florida early votes disappearing?
theGRIO REPORT - With early voting under way as of Saturday, there are already questions being raised about the vote count in Broward County, Florida ...
Obama, black America and the racial backlash
OPINION - Many, including whites and blacks, are pointing to Obama’s ethnicity as a deciding or at least informing factor—albeit for different reasons. Ironically, both groups point to racial prejudice as the culprit...
Early voter Obama asked for ID
theGRIO REPORT - President Barack Obama on Thursday became the first U.S. president to cast an early vote in person. He also became the first president (that we know of) to hear the words: 'I need an ID'...
