President Buchanan had promised the people of Kansas that they would have a fair chance to vote on their constitution.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

The vote was delayed in part because of the death of longtime Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Will you not vote for the killer if you already feel the cold steel of his gun against your head?"

VOA: special.2009.10.02

They said the constitutional convention had only given them the right to vote for limited slavery or unlimited slavery.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Each December, the editors and news directors of the Associated Press vote for the top ten news stories of the year.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Another way the state governments in the South acted against blacks was by refusing to give them the right to vote.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Republicans urged Union men to "vote as you shot" for Ulysses Grant the man who won the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Harper took his band on the road last year as part of the effort to get young people to vote.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

Most anti-slavery men did not vote, because their names had been kept off the voting lists by pro-slavery officials.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

And,in another development, the Senate voted Thursday to permit final debate and a vote on a financial reform bill.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

But a vote in Congress this week showed weakening support for President Obama's war policy among members of his own party.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

The nomination is expected to reach the full Senate for a vote before the Democratic-controlled Congress leaves for its August break.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

They passed a law saying no southerner could vote if he had taken part in the rebellion against the Union.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

However,the vote did not end the conflict between Congress and the White House over the future of the South.

VOA: special.2010.01.28