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Satellite Image: NASA According to one forecasting firm, Hurricane Sandy will "end up causing about $20 billion in property damages and $10 billion to $30 billion more in lost business," and as of Tuesday evening the superstorm had left millions without power in the Northeast and claimed the lives of 45 people on the US mainland. Though Hurricane Sandy will be long over by the elections next week, its massive disruptions will still be a part of life for many voters in the eastern United States

Shutterstock Images LLC At a time when more and more voters are declaring themselves independent and leaving the two main parties, third party candidates are facing the wasted vote dilemma. Not only do they have to convince voters of their program, but they also have to convince them that it is worth voting for a third party candidate, even if they have no chance of winning. It is not because many voters are interested in, or even convinced by, the ideas of third party candidates that they wil

Credit: pantheos.com At a time when more and more voters are declaring themselves independent and leaving the two main parties, third party candidates are facing the wasted vote dilemma. Not only do they have to convince voters of their program, but they also have to convince them that it is worth voting for a third party candidate, even if they have no chance of winning. It is not because many voters are interested in, or even convinced by, the ideas of third party candidates that they will n

Credit: Realclearpolitics.com With the election only ten days away, many Americans are looking to presidential polls as a means for predicting the outcome of the election and possibly making the decision to vote for one candidate over the other. Many voters recognize that the state they reside in will go to one candidate over the other regardless of their vote, but people still vote for the opposing candidate. Americans understand that the outcome of the election is determined by the Electoral

Credit: NPR.org Washington (IVN) -- Gas prices spiked nationally last month, began to drop, and rose again two weeks ago. Since the latest peak on October, 11 the national average gas price has been dropping steadily, but relief may only be temporary as two major storm systems and a potential "Frankenstorm" bears down on the Northeast. Two major storm systems will converge on the most heavily populated area of the country, and are gaining steam as they move on a collision course toward the Nor

Photo: Wikimedia Commons In a loft just outside Downtown Los Angeles, Meghan Leuders, is packing up her things. The recent Tufts University graduate is headed to the airport to embark on a two month internship in Ghana. But her mind is focused elsewhere. This week, early voting began in her home state of Colorado. She flies in just a couple hours, and yet her absentee ballot is blank and unsent. Four years ago, Leuders would have voted immediately. This is the same young woman who keeps an un

Photo: US Air Force / Author: Master Sgt. Scott Reed Despite a law passed by Congress in 2009 after low absentee voter turnout in the 2008 elections among US military personnel deployed overseas, the Military Voter Protection Project released statistics earlier this month which revealed that requests by military voters for absentee ballots had dropped significantly since 2008 to a record low. The most significant drops were in the key battleground states of Virginia and Ohio, which both saw re

Credit: User generated electoral maps on 270towin.com It’s the morning of Wednesday, November 7, 2012, and every major news outlet is reporting that for the first time in nearly two centuries, there is a tie in the electoral vote. Both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have secured 269 votes. Fire begins to rain down from the sky, the ground begins to quake, and Republicans and Democrats lose their minds. Okay, so maybe the imagery of apocalyptic events is bit extreme, but the reaction people will

Credit: CNN Tonight Larry King will moderate a third-party debate with Gov. Gary Johnson, Dr. Jill Stein, Rocky Anderson, and Virgil Goode. This is the first meeting of all four candidates who could play a significant role in different parts of the country this November. Two candidates, Johnson and Stein, have their name on enough ballots to win the election with 271 electoral votes. Virgil Goode could be a Romney spoiler in his home state of Virginia. Prior to watching the debate tonight brush

Credit: Newscom/ZumaPress Tomorrow’s Democracy has covered the issue of voter fraud extensively in its argument for implementing a national online voting system. The central argument against an online voting system is the assumed risk of voter fraud. Aside from the lack of factual information to support the argument, another wrench is thrown into the system when voter fraud presents itself and goes unpunished. Voter registration is the main area where voter fraud can occur. Individuals, politi