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Registrations missing in motor-voter system Story Here Archive | ||||||
Some Texans who thought they registered to vote through the Department of Public Safety have suffered an unpleasant surprise when they showed up to cast their ballots. In at least a half-dozen cases including some in Johnson County voters discovered that they couldn't cast ballots or that their vote likely wouldn't count. | ||||||
Republicans Urged to End Intimidation Story Here Archive | ||||||
WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (IPS) - National civil rights groups are urging the leadership of President George W Bush's Republican Party to put a stop to party activists' efforts to discourage potential voters believed likely to cast a ballot for Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry. | ||||||
State memo outlines way to handle Election Day challenges Story Here Archive | ||||||
Dawn Roberts, the head of the state Division of Elections, responded Thursday night to calls for help from county election chiefs on how to handle Election Day challenges by party observers to individual voters at precincts. | ||||||
Judge refuses to order review of Cuyahoga voter registrations Story Here Archive | ||||||
A federal judge has denied a request to have a special master review thousands of registration cards from Cuyahoga County voters who fear they won't be able to vote Tuesday. Voters' groups sued in federal court Monday, claiming the county Board of Elections failed to enter new registrations on county rolls, changes sent in by voters, and enter addresses correctly. | ||||||
GOP asks state to remove 5,619 from Milwaukee voter rolls Story Here Archive | ||||||
MADISON, Wis. - The state GOP asked the Wisconsin Elections Board on Friday to remove the names of 5,619 people registered to vote in Milwaukee, saying the addresses listed with city officials are fictitious and allowing them to vote would amount to fraud. Milwaukee elections officials earlier this week voted 3-0 to reject a similar complaint from the Republican Party of Wisconsin seeking to eliminate the 5,619 people from voter registration lists. | ||||||
California election news briefs Story Here Archive | ||||||
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - Thousands of voters may be forced to cast provisional ballots when they go to the polls because the county registrar is overwhelmed with a flood of late registrations | ||||||
Some E.C. provisional ballots were marred Story Here Archive | ||||||
CROWN POINT — Twenty percent of the provisional ballots cast in the East Chicago special Democratic mayoral primary were thrown out because poll workers did not properly sign the forms. The unaccepted 54 ballots would not have changed the outcome of the East Chicago race, which George Pabey won by 3,183 votes over Robert Pastrick. But with several tight votes likely in Tuesday’s general election, confusion about the recently instituted provisional voting process could become important. | ||||||
Counties brace for provisional voting drama Story Here Archive | ||||||
Next week, a new system for handling possibly ineligible ballots will be used for the first time in Harris County during a presidential election. Under the old system, people who showed up to vote but whose names didn't show up on voter rolls often were allowed to cast ballots that were counted after they filled out affidavits. | ||||||
Assembly Dems plan election reform package Story Here Archive | ||||||
TRENTON Assembly Democrats on Thursday proposed a 15-point election reform package that would allow early voting, mandate electronic machines include a paper trail and move up New Jersey's late presidential primary election. | ||||||
GOP calls 925 felons illegal voters Story Here Archive | ||||||
TALLAHASSEE - Foreshadowing a possible challenge of voters on Election Day or in court soon after, Florida's Republican Party said Thursday that it believes nearly 1,000 illegal voters plan to cast ballots this year. But the party's announcement may face its own challenges. The GOP found the allegedly illegal voters by using the same flawed list of felons that had been drawn up by the state elections division, but was scrapped after news organizations exposed its inaccuracies. | ||||||
Fight in a battleground lands in Newark court Story Here Archive | ||||||
The legal warfare between the national political parties over next week's presidential voting in swing states spread yesterday to a federal courtroom in Newark. Democratic lawyers dusted off a 23-year-old voter rights case and asked the original judge to apply it in Ohio to block Republicans there from challenging thousands of newly registered voters. | ||||||
Couple take battle to vote to justices Story Here Archive | ||||||
Eric and Traci Amberson went to the Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday, claiming a Republican-financed voter drive either lost or destroyed their registration forms. | ||||||
Worker bungles possible, clerk says Story Here Archive | ||||||
After all the preparations, all the training, all the computer debugging, one glitch is all but certain to crop up in Election Day vote tallies. "There is always going to be human error," former Bernalillo County Clerk Dolores Chavez Waller says. | ||||||
E-mail reveals Postal Service may have mishandled Broward ballots Story Here Archive | ||||||
The same day postal officials publicly denied responsibility for 58,000 missing absentee ballots, an internal e-mail sent by the South Florida District Manager to his employees expressed concern that his staff was not handling ballots within the region properly. | ||||||
White House argues to deny voting-rights lawsuits to public Story Here Archive | ||||||
WASHINGTON - Bush administration lawyers argued in three closely contested states last week that only the Justice Department, and not voters themselves, may sue to enforce the voting rights set out in the Help America Vote Act, which was passed in the aftermath of the disputed 2000 election. | ||||||
Here's a voter's guide to legal issues in the upcoming presidential race Story Here Archive | ||||||
WASHINGTON New laws, new voting procedures and court fights that have changed the rules in some states may mean added confusion at the polls on Tuesday. With memories of deadlocked Florida still fresh, the lawyers are plentiful and busy this year. Here is a voter's guide to ways the partisan legal skirmishing could affect voters on Election Day. | ||||||
Ohio Papers 'Prepare for the Worst' Story Here Archive | ||||||
NEW YORK Rumors of voter intimidation. Allegations of fraud. Provisional ballots. Partisan challengers at polling places. Lawsuits. Counter-suits. Appeals. | ||||||
Appeals court rejects GOP attempts to restart Ohio registration hearings Story Here Archive | ||||||
Republicans lost an attempt Friday to restart hearings on thousands of voter registrations contested by the GOP, and the court’s action could mean the hearings will never be held. | ||||||
Florida GOP, Democrats Trade Accusations Story Here Archive | ||||||
MIAMI - Tensions have been mounting in the runup to the presidential election as Florida politicians trade accusations over claims of fraud, missing absentee ballots and concerns that thousands of voter registrations will be challenged in "hand-to-hand combat at the precincts" on Nov. 2. | ||||||
Legal Tussles, Vote Recounts Possible Story Here Archive | ||||||
WASHINGTON - Florida again. And Ohio and Iowa and New Mexico and maybe Wisconsin or one or two other battleground states. All are possible settings for a replay of the court contests and recounts that marked the 2000 election overtime. | ||||||
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