Officials from Miami-Dade County say they have finished counting absentee ballots and will begin counting the county’s 2,800 provisional ballots on Thursday afternoon. Election officials worked overnight to finish counting the outstanding ballots – votes that are largely to blame for holding up the process of declaring a presidential winner in Florida. Penelope Townsley, supervisor […]

President Barack Obama handily defeated Gov. Mitt Romney and won himself a second term Tuesday after a bitter and historically expensive race that was primarily fought in just a handful of battleground states. Networks project that Obama beat Romney after nabbing the crucial state of Ohio. WATCH: Obama Wins Re-Election As 44th President Of United States, […]

It’s been a grueling campaign. You just want to sit down with a bowl of popcorn and find out who will be president for the next four years. So when will we know? Technically speaking — who the heck can say? With a race that went into Election Day neck and neck, and plenty of […]

COLUMBUS – Nearly 1.8 million Ohioans cast their ballots before Election Day thanks to early voting, which is a new state record, said elections officials. Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted released the final round of absentee voting data for Ohio based upon an informal survey of the state’s 88 boards of elections. Also, Husted […]

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – One issue voters in Cuyahoga County will decide is the future of Cleveland Schools. A levy on the ballot that some say could make or break the district. Several members of the Urban Educational Justice League are letting it be known they don’t want to see Issue 107 passed.  “Vote no for issue 107″chanted the […]

Washington (CNN) – It’s all tied up, according to a new national poll released two days before the presidential election. And the CNN/ORC International survey not only indicates a dead heat in the race for the White House, but also on almost every major indicator of President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney that […]

MIAMI — The battle over ballot access continued across the country Monday, as Republican Party operatives and elected officials pressed forward with apparent attempts to suppress the vote ahead of Election Day. Chaos reigned in South Florida, where Republican Gov. Rick Scott has refused to extend a reduced early voting period despite lines lasting as […]

CLEVELAND – Barack Obama was born on Aug. 4, 1961 in Hawaii, his mother was from Kansas, his father from Kenya. When Obama was two his parents divorced and his mother remarried in 1965 and the family moved to Indonesia. At the age of 10, Obama returned to Hawaii moving in with his grandparents. He […]

AKRON, Ohio – Hundreds of voters waited in a zigzagging line for as long as three hours on the last day of early voting at the Summit County Board of Elections office in Akron. Kim Zurz, deputy director of the Summit Count BOE, said voters have been patient for the most part, but some are […]

CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OH (WOIO) – Election day is just one day away, and both candidates are making a non-stop final push to try and win over every last voter. Early voters are lined up around the building at the Cuyahoga County and Lorain County Board of Elections. For those choosing to vote on Election Day, […]