elections

Next month it will be time to head to the polls in Lawton, Fort Sill to cast your vote on the Mayoral and City Council races. Mark your calendar for Tuesday, September 14th (09-14-21) election day. Be an active participant in this experiment in self government by letting your voice be heard and voting. It's one of the most important things you can do.

Here's your chance if you've even considered running for a city office. Over the past year or so there's been a lot of complaints and at times complements for our current Mayor and City Council members. The City of Lawton just posted a video that answers a lot of the questions you may have about becoming an elected official and the steps you'll need to take to get there.

The votes have been caste, tabulated and counted, and here are the outcomes to last week's run-off and bond issues elections in Southwest Oklahoma.

A handful of local school districts are hoping to fund improvements with bond issues up for vote in this weeks local election.

Tuesday's elections saw several local school districts proposing bond issues to residents to help fund local school building and upgrading.

Kid Rock ended up being one of presidential candidate Mitt Romney's biggest celebrity supporters in the run up to the election, and the vocalist revealed on the Howard Stern Show how he managed to warm to the buttoned-up politician.

You might take the democratic process very seriously, but not everybody is on your side. Specifically the 6,000 or so people who wrote in a cat for US Senator of Virginia. The cat came in third place.

Everyone is chiming on the third largest post presidential debate. Was Diane Sawyer drunk at the helm of the NBC News Ship during election coverage? Well new evidence has come up that shows she may not have been the only one having one knuckle news cruises.

Do you see that one part of the map there in the lower-right corner that's not like the rest of the map? If you were of political age in 2000, this mostly red-and-blue map looks frighteningly familiar, but fear not: even though the phrase "Florida is still too close to call" may send shudders down many people's spines, this time around it won't matter much.

You might not know it from watching TV, but Americans also went to the polls on Tuesday to cast their votes on a myriad of issues not involving a certain residence on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. And some of those issues were a bit strange.

As you've no doubt heard, Barack Obama was elected to a second presidential term last night. We have a feeling he's feeling like this right now:

While most of America (and a pretty good-sized portion of the rest of the world) watched the election returns come in yesterday (Nov. 6), some of our favorite rock stars turned to social media to help get out the vote -- and share their feelings about the results.