Elections

NEA meets; Biden blasts GOP as anti-public education

July 6, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Republicans - presumed presidential nominee Mitt Romney included - have become anti-public education, Democratic Vice President Joseph Biden says.

American dream: Florida voters defend rights

July 5, 2012 By Joelle Fishman

Florida has been in the eye of many natural storms. The Sunshine State is now in the eye of a man-made voter suppression storm.

Today in history: Voting age lowered to 18

July 5, 2012 By Special to People’s World

President Richard Nixon, under popular pressure, formally certified the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

430,000 signatures filed to end Ohio gerrymandering

July 5, 2012 By Rick Nagin

That more than met the requirement of at least 385,253 signatures from half (44) of Ohio's 88 counties.

Mexican elections: fraud again?

July 3, 2012 By Emile Schepers

It appears that the candidate of the formerly dominant Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), former Mexico state governor Enrique Peña Nieto, has won, but not by as much as he hoped.