Polls are open across the state for today’s election. Polls will remain open until 8PM tonight. Secretary of State Tom Schedler expects polling places to be busy today…

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He says if you can hit the polls sometime in the mid-morning or mid-afternoon you may have a little shorter wait time to cast your ballot.

Voters in the fifth and sixth congressional districts will choose from a large number of candidates to represent them in the US House. Former Congressman and four-term governor Edwin Edwards has the highest name recognition in the sixth district and LSU Political Science Professor Robert Hogan says Edwards has the best shot at making the run-off out of the 12-person race…

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Hogan says it’s hard to say which republican will be the run-off against Edwards.

With Election Day underway, political observers believe there will be a runoff in Louisiana’s US Senate race. Analyst Clancy Dubos says, as with anything on the ballot, it’ll all come down to voter turnout…

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Most polls show Senator Mary Landrieu winning in the primary but losing in the runoff.

According to the state department of education, 44-percent of voucher students reached a “basic” achievement level on standardized tests last year. That’s up from 42-percent the year before.