VOTING

How instant-runoff voting works

* On a ballot, instead of voting for one candidate, you rank them.

March 12, 2009

Instant-runoff voting on the way in Duluth?

A controversial system that allows voters to rank candidates rather than pick just one could be coming to a ballot near you.

March 12, 2009

Township annual meetings and elections Tuesday

St. Louis County Auditor reminds that annual meetings and elections can be postponed for inclement weather.

March 09, 2009

Reader's view: Instant runoff voting encourages unwanted choices

March 01, 2009

Winner in Senate race? It could be early voting

It may not be too early to declare one winner in Minnesota’s Senate election fiasco: the folks who want the state to adopt early voting.

By Elizabeth Dunbar , February 16, 2009

Panel rejects photo ID plan

A Minnesota House committee this morning rejected a plan to require that voters produce photo identification before getting an election ballot.

By Scott Wente , February 12, 2009

Letter to the editor: Many advantages to instant runoff voting system

While it’s pleasing that Virgil Swing, in his column here last week, moved closer to endorsing instant runoff voting, his reticence will hopefully be quickly resolved. IRV is an election improvement whose time has come.

February 10, 2009

Virgil Swing: Pondering the merits of instant-runoff voting

Beware the perils of the early adopter. Other than that, I’m edging closer to endorsing instant-runoff voting.

By Virgil Swing , February 02, 2009

Local kids pick Obama in landslide

Like their parents across the Northland and adult voters across the country, local kids on Tuesday chose Barack Obama as their next president.

November 05, 2008

Kids are voting--and some results are in

Not only adults are voting today. Across the Northland, students are voting in their schools and at polling places through Kids Voting and other educational programs. Some results already are trickling in.

November 04, 2008

Networks cautiously gung-ho about election night

NEW YORK — CNN will use hologram technology to beam three-dimensional images of its field correspondents onto its Election Center set. NBC News will project a U.S. map on the Rockefeller Plaza ice skating rink, where the states will turn blue and red as the votes come in. ABC News will put the results up on three massive screens in Times Square.

By By Matea Gold , November 03, 2008

Expect a record turnout here on Election Day

Expect big crowds, lines and maybe even some flared tempers at your polling places on Tuesday, as election officials are predicting what could be a record turnout.

November 01, 2008

Dear Abby: Voters value their privacy behind curtain

Dear Abby: I am writing in regard to the letter from “Registered Voter in North Carolina.” I never tell anyone who I voted for, not even my husband (even though I usually tell him everything). It’s not that I don’t want him to know, but we respect each other’s rights to voting privacy. We have lots of discussions about the candidates and issues, and both research them together. We have similar political views, and through our discussions we pretty much know who the other voted for. I hate when people ask me who I am voting for, and I always decline to state. My husband went to war to protect our rights — including the right to privacy — and more people should respect them. — Gloversville, N.Y., Voter

October 28, 2008

Push for voting focuses on lower-income neighborhoods

A coalition of area nonprofits is working to give a louder political voice to Duluth residents who have been unrepresented in the past.

By Steve Kuchera , October 21, 2008