45 Stories, most recent news story added Sun Oct 12, 6:26 am EDT
Which are more flawed: humans or the machines they create? After watching Florida's agonizing recount during the 2000 presidential election, Rhode Island lawmakers sided with the machines. They passed laws eliminating hand counts of ballots and tightened laws to reduce the partisan wrangling that erupts when officials must interpret the scribbles on incorrectly marked ballots.
A Rhode Island Supreme Court ruling clears the way for next month's state Senate race in Warwick.
Rhode Island native Lincoln Chafee was born in Warwick, RI in 1953 and is a graduate of Brown University. He is the son of the late John H. Chafee, long-time U.S. Senator from Rhode Island. After graduation, Chafee spent 7 years in the U.S. and Canada working as a blacksmith.
Providence - Which are more flawed: humans or the machines they create? After watching Florida's agonizing recount during the 2000 presidential election, Rhode Island lawmakers
Rhode Island's Supreme Court will not rule on a disputed West Warwick primary until State Police finish investigating alleged voting irregularities.
Press Photo/Paul L. Newby IILincoln Chafee, a former Republican senator from Rhode Island, announces his support for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday morning at Obama's Grand Rapids campaign headquarters. GRAND RAPIDS — Lincoln Chafee, a former Republican...
PROVIDENCE –– Rhode Island taxpayers will spend thousands of dollars to fuel a legal battle between Republican and Democratic lawmakers that could affect Little Leagues, Boy Scout troops and volunteer fire departments across the state.
GRAND RAPIDS — Former Republican U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chaffee will be in Grand Rapids Thursday to stump for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Lincoln Chaffee Chaffee, who lost his Rhode Island Senate seat in 2006 when a wave of anti-Republican...
Lincoln Chaffee GRAND RAPIDS -- Former Republican U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chaffee will be in Grand Rapids Thursday to stump for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Chaffee, who lost his Rhode Island Senate seat in 2006 when a wave of anti-Republican...
A recount at the Rhode Island Board of Elections confirms challenger Michael Pinga as the winner of a state Senate Democratic primary in West Warwick.
Election officials are trying to ensure the state's polling stations are accessible to disabled voters after a commission found problems at more than a dozen locations during the presidential primary, officials said.