Abipartisan panel should be appointed to oversee the recount in the Minnesota Senate race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman.

By holding, in a split decision, that all the so-called "undercounted votes" in Florida must be counted, the court has virtually guaranteed that there can be no conclusion to the Florida election story until well after Dec. 12, the date that Congress has fixed for the selection of an incontestable slate of delegates.

At this event, panelists discussed the expansion of government in the United States.

Assessing the progress of election reform is difficult, as elections are still extremely decentralized with very different practices across states and even within states.

For Pakistan, founded as a homeland for all Indian Muslims, the Sunni-Shiite divide is an awkward subject that many would rather ignore. But the rest of the world needs to pay more attention to this conflict.

What effect would a recount of the recent Mexican presidentialelection have on electoral institutions and procedures?

Undaunted by his legal defeats, Lopez Obrador has launched a struggle for power in the streets of Mexico.