Presidential Vote

• Egypt Gets First Free Presidential Vote

CAIRO - After a lifetime of being told who will rule them, Egyptians dove enthusiastically into the uncertainty of the Arab world's first competitive presidential election Wednesday. Up to the last minute, voters wrestled with a polarizing choice between secularists rooted in Hosni Mubarak's old autocracy and Islamists hoping to enfuse the state with religion. The choices in the race raised worries among many whether real democracy will emerge in Egypt. And the final result, likely to come only after a runoff next month, will only open a new chapter of political struggle.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• May 24, 2012

• Egyptians Hold Landmark Presidential Vote

CAIRO - After a lifetime of being told who will rule them, Egyptians dove enthusiastically into the uncertainty of the Arab world's first competitive presidential race Wednesday, wrestling with a polarizing choice between secularists rooted in Hosni Mubarak's old autocracy and Islamists hoping to infuse the state with religion. Waiting in long lines, voters were palpably excited at the chance to decide their country's path in the vote, the fruit of last year's stunning popular revolt that overthew Mubarak after 29 years in power. For the past 60 years, Egypt's presidents ran unchallenged in yes-or-no referendums that few bothered to vote in.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• May 24, 2012

• 11 CFR 100.149 - Voter registration and get-out-the-vote activities for Presidential candidates.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 11: Federal Elections

• Popular Presidential Vote Subverts Constitution

The proposal by some fellow Republicans for a "national popular vote (NPV) compact" is an example of what H.L. Mencken meant when he said, "For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, clear and wrong. The compact would subvert the Constitution by changing how we elect our president. Instead of forthrightly seeking to amend the Constitution by abolishing the Electoral College, the proposal bypasses the Constitution by creating a compact among some states that would bind all states.

• The Washington Times
• June 03, 2011

• Exiled Aristide to Arrive in Haiti Just Before Presidential Runoff Vote

Exiled Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide will arrive here today from South Africa, according to his attorney, returning less than 48 hours before a runoff vote in a presidential election that has already been marred by fraud and chaos. It was unclear what impact the deposed president's return would have on Sunday's vote, which is seen as a critical step toward jump- starting the country's rebuilding process after the January 2010 earthquake that killed 200,000 people. But U.S. officials have been so worried about Aristide's disruptive potential that President Obama expressed his concerns this week to South African President Jacob Zuma, according to the White House.

• Buffalo News
• March 18, 2011

• Right-Wing Billionaire Pinera Wins Chile's Presidential Vote

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Billionaire Sebastian Pinera won Chile's presidential vote Sunday in the country's first democratic election of a right-wing ruler in 52 years. Pinera earned 52 percent of the votes to 48 percent for the ruling coalition's candidate Eduardo Frei with 99 percent of the ballots counted, ending two decades of center-left rule since Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• January 18, 2010

• Predicting the incumbent party vote share in U.S. presidential elections.

Once every four years, it has become an American ritual to have the opportunity to make history and change a major part of the world by electing or re...

• The Cato Journal
• Vol. 29 Nbr. 3, September 2009

• 11 CFR 100.89 - Voter registration and get-out-the-vote activities for Presidential candidates.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 11: Federal Elections

• The Stolen Election: an expatriate Iranian writer travels her troubled homeland in the weeks after last summer's disputed presidential vote.

On June 12, 2009, I was among a hundred or so people standing outside a girls' school in Mashhad, Iran, hugging the shade of a yellow brick wall. My f...

• American Scholar
• Vol. 79 Nbr. 1, January 2010

• Requiem for a Lightweight: Vice Presidential Candidate Evaluations and the Presidential Vote.

Every four years, Americans experience the hoopla of a presidential election. A sideshow in this spectacle is the vice presidential nominees. Presiden...

• Presidential Studies Quarterly
• Vol. 31 Nbr. 3, September 2001