State has new orders on the way to handle voters at wrong place Story Here Archive |
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press 21 October 2004 COLUMBUS — A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell’s latest order on how to handle voters who show up at the wrong polling place on Election Day.
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Legal battle over provisional ballots moves to appeals court Story Here Archive |
ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press 21 October 2004 COLUMBUS, Ohio - The legal battle over how to handle voters who show up at the wrong polling place on Election Day moved to a federal appeals court Thursday.
Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell was expected to file court papers with the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati in favor of his argument that voters be prohibited from casting ballots anywhere but the precinct where they're registered.
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County Democrats may file ballot lawsuit on Friday Story Here Archive |
Bernard Harris Lancaster New Era 21 October 2004 LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - Lancaster County Democrats were reviewing a federal court decision today before going forward with plans to file a lawsuit against the county’s election board.
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Provisional Ballot Turmoil More Than 200,000 Votes Could Go Uncounted Story Here Archive |
Press Release Demos 21 October 2004 NEW YORK October 21 More than 200,000 votes cast on November 2nd could be invalidated due to improperly and illegally applied provisional balloting procedures, according to a new report released today by Demos, a nonpartisan public policy research organization based in New York.
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Eyewitness Accounts of Actions by Organization; Group Accused of Voter Registration Fraud in Three Swing States Story Here Archive |
Press Release IPA 21 October 2004 Librarians in Oregon and Pennsylvania are providing eyewitness accounts of voter registration activities of Sproul and Associates, a group which has received $488,000 from the Republican National Committee.
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Hale Co. clerk is silent on ballots Story Here Archive |
Theresa Swope Demopolis Times 21 October 2004 GREENSBORO - A day after the news that Hale County absentee voter ballots were being sent to a Sawyerville address rather than the typical county seat courthouse address, Circuit Clerk and absentee manager Gay Nell Tinker still has not responded to The Demopolis Times.
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Legal wars stirring over election 2004 Story Here Archive |
By Linda Feldmann | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor 20 October 2004 WASHINGTON – For weeks, reports of potential trouble have been trickling in from around the country. There are the suspicious - or clearly fraudulent - signatures on voter registrations. There are the allegedly unreliable electronic voting machines, controversies over lists of ex-felons, and conflicting court rulings over provisional ballots. And, as always, there is human and mechanical error.
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Legal wars stirring over election 2004 Story Here Archive |
By Linda Feldmann | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor 20 October 2004 WASHINGTON – For weeks, reports of potential trouble have been trickling in from around the country. There are the suspicious - or clearly fraudulent - signatures on voter registrations. There are the allegedly unreliable electronic voting machines, controversies over lists of ex-felons, and conflicting court rulings over provisional ballots. And, as always, there is human and mechanical error.
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Legal wars stirring over election 2004 Story Here Archive |
By Linda Feldmann | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor 20 October 2004 WASHINGTON – For weeks, reports of potential trouble have been trickling in from around the country. There are the suspicious - or clearly fraudulent - signatures on voter registrations. There are the allegedly unreliable electronic voting machines, controversies over lists of ex-felons, and conflicting court rulings over provisional ballots. And, as always, there is human and mechanical error.
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Judge: new Blackwell directive on provisional ballots inadequate Story Here Archive |
Asociated Press 20 October 2004 COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell's latest order on how to handle voters who show up at the wrong polling place on Election Day.
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Waiting, confusion impede early vote Story Here Archive |
By Jane Musgrave Palm Beach Post 20 October 2004 Frustration gripped voters throughout Palm Beach County and across Florida as those who decided to take advantage of the first statewide exercise in early voting were greeted with long lines, malfunctioning machines and few people who could answer their questions.
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Problems fade as early voting resumes in Broward Story Here Archive |
By Rafael A. Olmeda South Florida Sun-Sentinel 20 October 2004 Early voting resumed in Broward County on Tuesday with few of the glitches and interminable waits that marred Monday's launch.
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Early balloting continues in Palm Beach County, and so do voters' gripes Story Here Archive |
Anthony Man South Florida Sun-Sentinel 20 October 2004 With two weeks to go until Election Day, Palm Beach County voters continued to stream to the polls Tuesday, putting the state's new system of early voting to the test.
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Iowa laws on voting may face a lawsuit Story Here Archive |
By LYNN CAMPBELL Des Moines Register 20 October 2004 Iowa's election laws are at risk of facing a legal challenge from voting-rights groups who say there are "several deficiencies in Iowa election procedures that threaten to unlawfully disenfranchise thousands of Iowa voters."
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Iowa laws on voting may face a lawsuit Story Here Archive |
By LYNN CAMPBELL Des Moines Register 20 October 2004 Iowa's election laws are at risk of facing a legal challenge from voting-rights groups who say there are "several deficiencies in Iowa election procedures that threaten to unlawfully disenfranchise thousands of Iowa voters."
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Absentee ballots 'lost' at printer Story Here Archive |
By Gabrielle Crist, Rocky Mountain News 20 October 2004 As many as 13,000 absentee ballots have yet to be mailed to Denver residents after a miscommunication with a California printer.
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Parties File Suits Over Election Issues Story Here Archive |
DEBORAH HASTINGS Associated Press 20 October 2004 A new political strategy has emerged in this photo-finish presidential race: File a flurry of lawsuits before the first votes are even tallied.
From Oregon to Florida, Democrats and Republicans are firing away at such issues as touch-screen voting machines and provisional ballots. The lawsuits represent a hard-learned lesson from 2000: do not wait until all the votes are counted to go to court.
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Voting group calls for paper ballots, more training for Georgia elections Story Here Archive |
DOUG GROSS Associated Press 20 October 2004 ATLANTA - Georgia's voting machines should create paper ballots and poll workers should get more training, a group of international election observers said in a report released Wednesday.
The California-based Fair Election International ed Georgia to study because it is one of only two states that will exclusively use paperless electronic voting this year.
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Alabama voter registration beset by backlog, key resignation Story Here Archive |
JAY REEVES Associated Press 20 October 2004 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Counties across Alabama struggled to deal with a backlog of thousands of last-minute voter registrations as the state's longtime head of voter registration quit Wednesday less than two weeks before Election Day.
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Layout Confuses Some Ohio Absentee Voters Story Here Archive |
CONNIE MABIN Associated Press 20 October 2004 CLEVELAND - Absentee voters in the most populous county of a critical state in the presidential election are complaining about a ballot layout that they say might prompt some people to choose the wrong candidate, or none at all.
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