International Business News - Vote http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif The world's most comprehensive legalized heroin program became permanent Sunday with overwhelming approval from Swiss voters who simultaneously rejected the decriminalization of marijuana. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081201/swiss-approve-pioneering-legal-heroin-program.htm Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:14:56 EST The world's most comprehensive legalized heroin program became permanent Sunday with overwhelming approval from Swiss voters who simultaneously rejected the decriminalization of marijuana. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/186392-switzerland-heroin.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081130/swiss-appear-to-be-approving-heroin-program.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081130/swiss-appear-to-be-approving-heroin-program.htm Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:10:09 EST A vote tally between two women vying to head the Socialist Party and lead the opposition against France's conservative president was too close to call, a senior party official said early Saturday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/french-socialist-vote-ending-with-no-clear-winner.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:26:25 EST Smithfield Packing Co. and the United Food and Commercial Workers say employees at the company's massive North Carolina hog slaughterhouse will decide next month whether to unionize. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081118/smithfield-union-announce-december-union-vote.htm Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:18:14 EST President-elect Barack Obama won one of Nebraska's electoral votes, the first time in history that the state has split its votes and the first time in 44 years that it had given a vote to a Democrat. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081114/obama-wins-1-of-nebraskas-electoral-votes.htm Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:11:51 EST Latinos are hailed as a key voting bloc, even though they show their power at the polls only sporadically. When they turned out in record numbers to vote for Democrat Barack Obama, they not only erased recent gains by Republicans but shattered the myth of a black-Latino divide. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/172076-obama-hispanic-vote.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081110/in-key-states-latino-vote-fueled-obamas-victory.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081110/in-key-states-latino-vote-fueled-obamas-victory.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:53:30 EST Every vote counts. Just ask the newly elected commissioner in Mississippi's Lincoln County. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081107/looks-like-she-voted-for-the-right-person.htm Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:13:15 EST In building a winning coalition of religious voters, Barack Obama cut into the so-called God gap that puts frequent worshippers in the Republican column, won Catholics, made inroads with younger evangelicals, and racked up huge numbers with minorities and people with no religious affiliation. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081105/obama-results-show-gains-in-key-religious-voters.htm Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:32:10 EST The company fighting to build a coal-fired power plant in central Utah might shop the project to another county or switch to burning cleaner natural gas, its attorney said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081105/utah-county-voters-pass-measure-on-coal-plants.htm Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:56:04 EST In a season of profound political and cultural fissures, the American people stood together at the ballot box Tuesday with a resounding chorus that drowned out their deep differences: Something, they said, has got to give. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/167956-america-votes.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081105/a-worried-america-chooses-its-course-for-change.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081105/a-worried-america-chooses-its-course-for-change.htm Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:12:21 EST In a season of profound political and cultural fissures, the American people stood together at the ballot box Tuesday with a resounding chorus that drowned out their deep differences: Something, they said, has got to give. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081104/a-worried-america-chooses-its-course-for-change.htm Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:22:13 EST In the digitized world of YouTube, Facebook and other Web sites, the voting booth no longer is the most private of places: People are documenting their votes like never before. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/167204-votes.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081104/voters-take-cameras-into-booths-testing-laws.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081104/voters-take-cameras-into-booths-testing-laws.htm Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:20:23 EST Betty Owen is 92 and after a stroke four years ago, needs a feeding tube and can't walk. But she was determined not to miss Tuesday's election. She arrived at her polling place on a gurney in an ambulance, where an election judge and support worker climbed aboard with an electronic voting machine and let her cast her ballot. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081104/determined-texas-woman-92-votes-in-ambulance.htm Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:27:35 EST Getting ready to cast her first vote, 19-year-old Elizabeth Jimenez considers all that's at stake in her choice of president: the tanking economy in which she'll start her career. The dwindling medical benefits that support her bedridden sister. The failed promise of immigration reform to help her Mexican-born father. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081102/amid-gloom-young-see-vote-as-act-of-hope.htm Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:31:57 EST Voting for president and having your ballot be the deciding one cast--statistically, that is like trying to hit the lottery. The odds for the average person are 60 million to 1 against it, a study shows. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/165832-your-vote-matters.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081102/statistically-does-your-presidential-vote-matter.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081102/statistically-does-your-presidential-vote-matter.htm Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:03:42 EST A New York City couple has traveled halfway around the world in the name of civic duty. Susan Scott-Ker and her husband arrived in New York on Wednesday after flying 9,300 miles to vote in Tuesday's presidential election. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081101/nyc-couple-travels-9-300-miles-from-india-to-vote.htm Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:05:43 EDT Zambia's main opposition candidate was ahead Friday in early presidential election results in this southern African nation, but his lead was slowly narrowing. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/164644-zambia-presidential-vote.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081031/zambia-opposition-leader-leads-early-poll-results.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081031/zambia-opposition-leader-leads-early-poll-results.htm Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:32:27 EDT Youth voters are traditionally some of the hardest to get to the polls, but one of the country's largest school districts hopes to teach a civics lesson by offering voluntary busing to the polls for first-time voters during school hours. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081031/south-fla-school-district-buses-students-to-vote.htm Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:30:45 EDT "Here I am, signed, sealed, delivered." That's what the giddy crowds at Barack Obama's campaign rallies hear when he walks off the stage, the booming sound of Stevie Wonder singing about the promise of a sure thing. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/164518-obama-2008.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081031/wary-of-voter-overconfidence-obama-not-letting-up.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081031/wary-of-voter-overconfidence-obama-not-letting-up.htm Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:56:17 EDT To put it in a tasteful way, a vote in Ohio is determining which White House hopeful is the pick of the litter. The ballot boxes are cat litter boxes in the 2008 "Kitty Caucus" being conducted by the Capital Area Humane Society in Columbus and local radio station WBNS-FM, known as Mix 97.1. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081030/mccain-leads-ohios-litter-box-kitty-caucus.htm Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:46:24 EDT