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Wayne County, Michigan, canvassers reversed course late Tuesday night and voted to certify results from the November 3 election, which have been disputed. The Board of Canvassers had originally voted 2-2 along party lines. But later into the night, the Republican canvassers flipped and voted with the Democrats, while the live video stream was down. “After hours of angry responses from Wayne County residents, the change in course was approved by the two Republican and two Democratic canvassers with the demand that the Secretary of State’s office conduct a ‘comprehensive audit’ of precincts with unexplained out-of-balance tallies,” the Detroit News...

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to call for an early voting period of at least 20 days in every state. Clinton will call for that standard in remarks Thursday in Texas about voting rights, her campaign said. She will also criticize what her campaign calls deliberate restrictions on voting in several states, including Texas.

WASHINGTON: At the core of Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign is a promise that he can transcend the starkly red-and-blue politics of the last 15 years, end the partisan and ideological wars, and build a new governing majority. To achieve the change the country wants, he says, "we need a leader who can finally move beyond the divisive politics of Washington and bring Democrats, independents and Republicans together to get things done."

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- With little time to recover from Iowa's presidential caucuses before Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, a bruised Hillary Clinton faces her nightmare scenario: Barack Obama could unite anti-Clinton Democrats to seal the party's nomination in coming weeks. Seven in 10 Iowa Democrats in Thursday night's caucuses supported someone other than New York's Sen. Clinton. Among those who showed up supporting the second-tier candidates, very few listed her as their second choice. In the end, she finished third, losing not just to Sen. Obama but, by a sliver, to John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator who had made...