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Every Wednesday morning after the 8:30 news, I'm lucky enough to be joined by Northern Illinois University political science professor, Matt Streb, and for the last few months I've really been enjoying Matt's take on an increasingly bizarre presidential race.

The race for the Republican presidential nomination got a major kick in the headlines on Tuesday when Sarah Palin threw her support behind Donald Trump.

I've heard of low-turnout elections before, but this one takes the cake. An Iowa man who was the only candidate for a school board seat ended up with zero votes. That's right. According to the Des Moines Register, Randy Richardson couldn't even get himself to the voting booth to pull the lever for himself: Preliminary figures from Howard County say only 36 people voted in Tuesday's election, and n

Stateline area voters went to the polls this Election Day in record low numbers. Turnout in  Winnebago County was around 10 percent of registered voters.  Boone County had a voter turnout of 12 percent. The city of Rockord ended up with only six percent of voters casting a ballot...

Following are the unofficial results for the 2014 Midterm Elections.

As we prepare for Election Night coverage, I wanted to pass along a couple of tools that might allow you to be a more-informed voter/citizen when it comes to parsing the returns. First, take a look at this great online tool from pollster We Ask America...

Last week we told you about alleged Election law violations taking place in Rock Island County. Then on Monday we heard reports of errors happening of voting machines in the same location. The county clerk, Karen Kinney, dismissed any allegations of problems in the area...

Jim Anderson -- Illinois Radio Network Illinois’ attorney general is adamant that early and absentee ballots must not be counted until after the polls close. The reason county clerks and election commissioners can’t push ballots through a tabulator now is because poll watchers are entitled to be present to observe the count...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — With just 12 days left before Election Day in one of the nation's most closely watched races for governor, Illinois officials are beginning to deal with complications from balloting procedures to how soon they can count votes...

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Republicans are mounting what they say is an unprecedented and costly campaign to purge ineligible people from voter lists and recruit their own election judges before November. It's a sign of how close the contest is expected to be for control of President Barack Obama's home state...