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Poll Watchers to Crowd Voting Venues Story Here Archive | ||||||
Tens of thousands of poll monitors, challengers, lawyers and other activist observers are expected to clog voting precincts in battleground states Tuesday in what will probably be the most scrutinized U.S. election in at least 40 years. | ||||||
Broward mailing new ballots; Florida GOP warns of disenfranchment Story Here Archive | ||||||
MIAMI - Tensions preceding Election Day mounted Thursday, amid claims of voter fraud and intimidation at Florida's early polling locations, promises that lost absentee ballots will reach Broward County citizens in time, and concerns that Republicans will question the authenticity of thousands of votes. | ||||||
Study Turns Up 45,000 Duplicates on Voter Rolls Story Here Archive | ||||||
(Marion County) - With Election Day just five days away, there's new controversy about voter registration rolls. An Indianapolis Star study shows more than 10,000 voters are registered in both Marion and a nearby county. | ||||||
Wave of voters, and vote watchers, building Story Here Archive | ||||||
Pushed by heavy registration of new voters in the presidential battleground states, more than 143 million Americans will be on the voting rolls by Election Day, a new report says. | ||||||
Pa. voters turned away from polls might have tough time appealing Story Here Archive | ||||||
PHILADELPHIA - For decades, would-be Pennsylvania voters who were turned away at the polls could ask a Common Pleas judge for permission to cast a ballot. If the voter appeared to be qualified, the judge would more often than not agree to the request. But changes in state election law did away with the Election Day appeals process, a development one top elections official on Thursday called a "disgrace" that could lead to voters being disenfranchised. | ||||||
Partisan Suspicions Run High in Swing States Story Here Archive | ||||||
MILWAUKEE — The vast open rotunda soared above them as they waited by the hundreds to register and cast absentee ballots inside City Hall, the 19th century landmark modeled after a long-forgotten Dutch guildhall. It was a predominantly African American crowd, and people sang "We Shall Overcome." | ||||||
Partisan Registration Drives Raise Specter of Fraud Story Here Archive | ||||||
LAS VEGAS Broke, disabled and living at the Daisy Motel in downtown Las Vegas, Tyrone Mrasek Sr. took a temporary job late this summer registering voters here. | ||||||
Potential troubles make repeat of 2000 electiondebacle a possibility Story Here Archive | ||||||
Four years after the most controversial presidential election in modern U.S. history when Florida kept the nation waiting 36 days to find out George W. Bush was elected by 537 votes many of the problems that plagued the state are still around. | ||||||
The Three-Hour Poll Tax Story Here Archive | ||||||
In Florida, which has begun early voting, elderly people have waited for as long as three hours, sometimes in the blazing sun, to cast ballots. There is every reason to believe that lines will be longer on Nov. 2. Lines that make voters wait for hours are a national disgrace, particularly for presidential elections. They discourage participation, particularly by the poor and infirm. | ||||||
Ohio Voter Registration Hearings Halted Story Here Archive | ||||||
CINCINNATI - A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily stopped hearings on Republican challenges of thousands of voter registrations, ruling in favor of Democrats who alleged the challenges were an attempt to keep legitimate votes from being counted. | ||||||
Philanthropists create Web-based tool to help voters find polling place Story Here Archive | ||||||
SAN FRANCISCO - With most states reporting massive new voter registrations and many political observers worrying about potential voter confusion and allegations of fraud on Nov.2, one organization has created a web-based tool to answer questions and provide information. | ||||||
Iowa Provisional Ballot Lawsuit Declined Story Here Archive | ||||||
DES MOINES, Iowa - A judge declined to rule Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by Republican voters challenging a decision that allows Iowans to cast provisional ballots outside of their home precincts. He said the challenge was premature. | ||||||
Legal Battles Over Ballots Put Election Rules in Flux Story Here Archive | ||||||
Iowa Republicans charged yesterday that Democrats are trying to rig the presidential election there by allowing voters to cast ballots even if they vote in the wrong precincts, while in Ohio Democrats sued to try to stop the GOP there from challenging the eligibility of tens of thousands of voters. | ||||||
Lines grow across North Carolina to cast early ballots Story Here Archive | ||||||
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Lines kept growing Monday as North Carolina broke records for early voting. More than 350,000 people, or 6.4 percent of the state's registered voters, had cast early ballots as of Monday, with four more days of early one-stop voting left. | ||||||
Voters may feel eyes on them Story Here Archive | ||||||
Long ballots, new rules, new machines, new voters, party observers and lawyers galore will make Tuesday one of the most closely watched elections in American history. | ||||||
Voter challenges hit another snag for state GOP Story Here Archive | ||||||
Never mind the policy issues at stake in the election. It's getting so a person can't even keep up with the issues relating to how the election is to be conducted. The political parties are fighting about who should be allowed to vote and where, about how registration should be handled, who should be present at polling places and what kind of voting machines to use. | ||||||
Democrats sue to block GOP voter registration challenges Story Here Archive | ||||||
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Turning to the federal courts again, Ohio Democrats have sued to block Republican challenges to 35,000 voter registrations. A lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati seeks an order halting hearings that county boards of elections have scheduled to determine whether challenged voters live where they are registered and should remain on the rolls. | ||||||
International observers set to descend on Florida Story Here Archive | ||||||
MIAMI - International observers from across the globe will be in Florida and other parts of the nation in the days leading up to the election, but their input may be limited by their access. | ||||||
Postal Experts Hunt for Missing Ballots in Florida Story Here Archive | ||||||
MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. Postal Service investigators on Wednesday were trying to find thousands of absentee ballots which should have been delivered to voters in one of Florida's most populous counties, officials said. | ||||||
Out of country, off beaten path: reason for voting challenges vary Story Here Archive | ||||||
COLUMBUS, Ohio - One voter receives letters at a post office because his mailbox has been hit so many times by delivery trucks. Another is an Army sergeant in Iraq. Yet another has lived at the same address for five years, voting in every election. | ||||||
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