Reid: Dems are the Party of Diversity
Posted: 12:21 PM Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the election showed that Democrats are the party of diversity, and he plans to bring up an immigration reform bill next year.
Posted: 12:21 PM Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the election showed that Democrats are the party of diversity, and he plans to bring up an immigration reform bill next year.
Updated: 11:43 PM Voters have rejected a measure that would have allowed state senators to serve longer in the Nebraska Legislature.
Updated: 6:15 AM President Barack Obama has been re-elected to a second term, defeating Republican Mitt Romney in a hard-fought race in which the economy was the dominant issue.
Updated: 5:36 AM Nebraska voters have rejected a measure that called for giving the state's 49 senators their first pay raise since 1988.
Updated: 11:43 PM Nebraska voters have decided to create a constitutional right to hunt and fish in the state.
Updated: 11:44 PM Nebraskans have approved a measure that adds campaign misdeeds to the reasons elected officials can be impeached.
Updated: 10:50 PM Republican Rep. Adrian Smith has been re-elected to a fourth term representing western Nebraska's sprawling 3rd congressional district.
Updated: 11:45 PM Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry has won re-election in Nebraska's 1st congressional district.
Updated: 12:43 PM Grand Island voters have chosen to renew an economic jobs program.
Updated: 10:18 PM For the 12th consecutive election, a Republican presidential candidate is victorious in Nebraska.
Posted: 5:30 PM Officials said voter turnout for the 2012 election was very high in central Nebraska. Both Hall and Adams County reported record numbers of early voters. In Hall County, Election Commissioner Dale Baker said about 18 percent of registered voters had cast their ballots early, including 500 the day before election day.
Updated: 5:17 PM In case you somehow forgot Tuesday is election day, students at Goodrich Middle School worked hard to remind you.
Updated: 6:54 PM Secretary of State John Gale is predicting a high voter turn out in this election. He cites strong interest in not only the presidential election but also races for the U.S. Senate and Congress.
Updated: 3:30 PM A spokeswoman for the Nebraska Secretary of State's Office says a voter at an Omaha polling place inadvertently received a ballot already filled out for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and incumbent Republican Rep. Lee Terry.
Posted: 2:31 PM Dakota County in northeast Nebraska is providing interpreters to help Somali and Spanish-speaking voters.
Updated: 8:35 AM The president heads into Election Day tied with Republican challenger Mitt Romney in national polls. But in some of the key battleground states, including Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin, that will decide the White House race, Obama appears to have a slight edge.
Posted: 6:14 AM Republicans are expected to retain their majority in the Nebraska Legislature on Tuesday, but some wonder if its nonpartisan set-up is starting to resemble politics elsewhere.
Posted: 6:07 AM Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Bob Kerrey says he's the best hope for helping Nebraska and the nation take on big problems.
Posted: 6:01 AM Republican Deb Fischer and Democrat Bob Kerrey are calling on some of the biggest names in Nebraska politics to show voters the kind of U.S. senator they would be.
Posted: 5:55 AM Voters are deciding the fate of Nebraska's three Republican congressmen, who all made federal spending a centerpiece of their re-election campaigns.
Updated: 5:39 AM Four ballot measures are being put in Nebraska voters' hands, including whether state senators should get their first raise since 1988 and be allowed to serve an extra term.