“Voting” on The Daily Caller

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Interim president Bronislaw Komorowski appeared to have held off a last-minute surge from the identical twin brother of the late president, who died in an April plane crash that shocked the country and forced Sunday’s early election. (more)

CA voters want their options back, and last night they passed a proposition that would once again give them the ability to pick and choose their candidates across party lines during partisan primaries. (more)

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Voters dressed in chicken costumes won’t be allowed inside Nevada polling places this year. (more)

SALT LAKE CITY—In yet another sign of the Tea Party movement’s growing power, Utah Republicans delivered a crippling blow to three-term incumbent Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) by voting him off the GOP ticket for November’s race. (more)

LONDON (AP) — The two parties that could form Britain’s next government held hours of closed-door talks Sunday without reaching a power-sharing deal, and there are fears that the political uncertainty could stoke market jitters when trading reopens Monday. (more)

RIDGWAY — Residents of this Old West- meets-New Age town can be fined if their fences are too high, they have too many chickens, their dogs aren’t on leashes or their weeds are out of control. (more)

UPDATE – 6:21 p.m. – Lynch told me just now his meeting with President Obama went “really well,” but that the president did not change his mind, and he remains opposed to the health care bill. (more)

The number of people who feel a pressing need to vote in general elections is declining, according to a government-backed survey. (more)

BOSTON (AP) — Voters thronged to the polls in Massachusetts Tuesday in a special election Republicans hope will be a national game-changer, slowing down President Barack Obama’s agenda and loosening the Democratic grip on the U.S. Senate. (more)

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s election commission released a partial vote count Monday showing gruff opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych and glamorous Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on course to compete in next month’s final round of the presidential elections. (more)

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Exit poll says leaders Yanukovych and Tymoshenko to face off in Ukraine presidential vote (more)

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Five years after the Orange Revolution inspired hopes for broad economic and political reforms, many Ukrainian voters seem to expect little from Sunday’s presidential election. (more)

KABUL (AP) — The Afghan parliament has approved President Hamid Karzai’s picks for foreign and justice ministers but rejected the nominee for higher education as voting began on a second slate of Cabinet choices after lawmakers rejected most of his first list. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court decided Friday it would get involved for the second time this week in a case in which opponents of gay rights fear they will be harassed if their views are made public. (more)

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s presidential candidates are trading accusations of plans to steal Sunday’s election, with at least one warning of possible street confrontations. (more)

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The top U.S. diplomat for Sudan is urging a range of steps to quell violence surging in southern Sudan as two key votes approach — one of them a referendum on independence that some fear could spark a new civil war. (more)

FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique (AP) — Voters in Martinique and French Guiana overwhelmingly rejected a proposal Sunday to give local government more autonomy while remaining a part of France. (more)

HONOLULU (AP) — Cash-strapped Hawaii can’t afford to pay for an election to replace a congressman who is planning to step down next month to run for governor, potentially leaving 600,000 urban Honolulu residents without representation in Washington. (more)

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — The Icelandic government introduced a bill Friday on holding a national referendum over repayment of $5.7 billion demanded by Britain and the Netherlands for depositors’ money lost in failed Icelandic banks. (more)

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A group of aid agencies is warning that Sudan’s volatile southern region could collapse into chaos again. (more)