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Legal action, voting changes loom over election Story Here Archive | ||||||
WASHINGTON - The presidency isn't all that's at stake on Nov. 2. Haunted by memories of a 2000 election decided by a few hundred disputed votes in Florida, both campaigns are preparing unprecedented challenges of voting procedures that could once again test the integrity of the American ballot box. | ||||||
Bogus voter registration forms pop up Story Here Archive | ||||||
Fulton County elections officials suspect they received as many as 3,000 bogus voter registration applications collected illegally in exchange for money. The applications were submitted to the Georgia secretary of state's office in September by Unity '04, a national group working in Atlanta with civil rights leader the Rev. Joseph Lowery to register African-American voters. | ||||||
Voter form raises forgery concern Story Here Archive | ||||||
The 2004 elections were supposed to be over for Felipe Roibal. The 60-year-old retired postal worker is among thousands of New Mexicans who requested, received, filled out and submitted an absentee ballot weeks before a record-sized crush of voters is expected to fill polling places Nov. 2. | ||||||
Election sign-up at festival triggers complaint Story Here Archive | ||||||
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Officials say an investigation into possible voter registration irregularities has extended to LifeLight, a Christian music festival that drew an estimated quarter of a million people to Sioux Falls on Labor Day weekend. | ||||||
Glitches cause long lines at early voting sites in Broward Story Here Archive | ||||||
A computer glitch that disconnected poll workers from crucial ballot information shut down nine of Broward County's 14 early voting sites on Monday, leaving some irate voters waiting in lines for as long as two hours and raising the specter of another 2000 election embarrassment for South Florida. | ||||||
Federal judge says Michigan must count provisional ballots in wrong precincts Story Here Archive | ||||||
LANSING A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Michigan must count provisional ballots cast by voters who show up at the wrong polling precincts but are in the right city, township or village. | ||||||
In Florida, It Begins Anew Story Here Archive | ||||||
MIAMI, Oct. 18 Bongo drums, rapping preachers and a smattering of all-too-familiar technical difficulties greeted Florida voters Monday as the state's first attempt at early voting in a presidential election opened the 16-day voting season in this critical battleground state. | ||||||
In Florida, Early Voting Means an Early Return to Problems Story Here Archive | ||||||
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 18 - Presidential voting in Florida began two weeks early on Monday, in an effort to avoid many of the problems that plagued Election Day 2000. | ||||||
Lawsuit over paperless vote begins Story Here Archive | ||||||
FORT LAUDERDALE — A computer scientist likened paperless electronic voting to trusting a "man behind the curtain" to record votes as a federal trial began Monday. | ||||||
Waiting, confusion impede early vote Story Here Archive | ||||||
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. | ||||||
Long lines plague first day of casting votes in Palm Beach County Story Here Archive | ||||||
The lines were long. Democrats and Republicans were stuck standing together for hours, some outside in the sun. Tempers grew short. It was a bad time for some voters in Palm Beach County on Monday, a historic day when Floridians for the first time could go to the polls early to cast their vote for president. | ||||||
Justice Dept. Intervenes in Vote Dispute Story Here Archive | ||||||
The Justice Department yesterday jumped into an intensely partisan legal battle over the election rules that will govern the upcoming presidential election, arguing in federal court that the Democratic Party has no right to challenge rules in Michigan or elsewhere that govern the counting of "provisional ballots." | ||||||
Ballot ruling seen as win for governor Story Here Archive | ||||||
TALLAHASSEE - The Florida Supreme Court on Monday ruled that voters who cast a so-called 'provisional ballot' must cast it in the right precinct in order for the vote to be counted. | ||||||
Absentee ballot rule tossed Story Here Archive | ||||||
Any voter who requests an absentee ballot but fails to fill it out will be allowed to cast a provisional ballot at the polls, a Denver District judge ruled Monday. The ruling will allow tens of thousands of voters to cast a ballot who wouldn't have been able to under Secretary of State Donetta Davidson's rules. | ||||||
In wrong precinct? Vote may not count Story Here Archive | ||||||
In response to a judge’s order, Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell yesterday proposed new guidelines for provisional ballots, saying no one should be denied the chance to vote — even though that vote might not be counted. | ||||||
Colorado could be next Florida Story Here Archive | ||||||
Colorado's county clerks have been swamped with a surge in voter registrations, thousands of felons are on the voter rolls, and there is widespread confusion about how provisional ballots will be counted and voting rules will be enforced. | ||||||
States? Efforts to Purge Felons From Voting Lists Results in Disfranchisement of Legal Voters, According to First-Ever Survey Story Here Archive | ||||||
NEW YORKMillions of eligible voters may be prevented from casting their ballots on November 2nd due to non-existent or flawed procedures used by state election officials to purge felons from voter rolls, according to a new report released today by the American Civil Liberties Union and Demos, as part of the Right to Vote Campaign. | ||||||
Several states face likely voter problems for elections< Story Here Archive | ||||||
(KRT) - WASHINGTON –– A non-partisan clearinghouse for election-reform research has singled out Missouri as one of three states with the potential for big Election Day ballot problems. | ||||||
New Duval elections supervisor quickly adds early voting sites Story Here Archive | ||||||
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Gov. Jeb Bush's choice for Duval County's interim election supervisor hit the ground running Tuesday, establishing four new early voting sites for the county's 500,000 registered voters. | ||||||
Across the Country, Beware of Attempts to Block the Vote Story Here Archive | ||||||
Last week former employees of Sproul & Associates (operating under the name Voters Outreach of America), a firm hired by the Republican National Committee to register voters, told a Nevada TV station that their supervisors systematically tore up Democratic registrations. | ||||||
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