Yesterday, Facebook teamed up with CNN to launch their social voting app, "I'm Voting", urging voters to commit their vote on the social media website. Because of the social aspect of Facebook, the application will allow users to share their vote with their friends on the network, greatly expanding its reach. The app features three political leanings, Democrat, Republican, and Independent, asking users to select their political affiliation.

The Republican platform committee pushed a number of anti-illegal immigration platform planks on Tuesday. On top of advocating a completed border fence along the U.S.-Mexico border and requiring employers to use a national E-Verify system when hiring new employees, the committee took a  stance against in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.

An Ohio GOP Board of Elections official who opposed early weekend voting in 2008 says early voting procedures shouldn't accommodate African-Americans.

The essence of the mostly unreported story is simple enough. When Mitt Romney was having difficulty raising money to start Bain Capital in 1984, he ended up raising a major share of his company’s initial $37 million investment from Salvadoran millionaires with indirect links to death squads in El Salvador. But how credible is the accusation?

In a dramatic move, Ohio Secretary of State John Husted immediately suspended two Democrats on a county election board after they voted to allow weekend voting.

Earlier, Husted issued a directive canceling weekend voting statewide. In 2008, Ohio offered early voting on the weekends and thousands of voters cast their ballot during that time.

As one of the most popular blogging sites to date, Tumblr will be sending off it's very own bloggers to cover both the Republican and Democratic conventions, to be posted on their new election page Tumbling the Conventions.