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Democrats prepare election challenge    Story Here  Archive
By MICHELE DARGAN, Palm Beach Daily News 15 October 2004
Friday, Oct. 15, 2004 — Palm Beach County Democratic Committeeman Joe Martin said he already is preparing to challenge the Nov. 2 election results in the District 22 congressional race, which includes Palm Beach.

State to be put to the test. Can Florida get it right this time?    Story Here  Archive
Rachel La Corte Associated Press 14 October 2004
MIAMI - When Florida's voters go to the polls Nov. 2, they will be greeted by more than poll workers and political party observers.
A bevy of international observers and civil rights groups will be watching to see whether elections will run smoothly in the state where problems exploded four years ago and held the outcome of the presidential race in limbo for weeks.


Doyle joins rift over ballot supply    Story Here  Archive
By DAVE UMHOEFER and STEVE SCHULTZE Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 15 October 2004
The Milwaukee election ballot flap escalated Thursday, with Gov. Jim Doyle calling for a state probe and County Executive Scott Walker agreeing after a noisy protest to reconsider the City of Milwaukee's request for more ballots.

Early voting options succeed in early votes, and early chaos    Story Here  Archive
By Jane Musgrave Palm Beach Post 15 October 2004
Giving people the chance to freely cast absentee ballots or vote early was supposed to make the most basic of constitutional rights quicker, saner and blissfully hassle-free.

Florida sued over rejected voters    Story Here  Archive
GARY FINEOUT AND JAY WEAVER Miami Herald 14 October 2004
Major labor unions are suing Florida's secretary of state and five county election supervisors to force them to accept more than 10,000 voter registration applications that were rejected before the presidential election.

Err on the side of the voter    Story Here  Archive
Opinion in the East Manatee Herald 14 October 2004
Kudos to Manatee County Election Supervisor Bob Sweat for giving citizens a second chance to complete registration forms in order to vote in the Nov. 2 election.

4 yrs. later, Florida set for a new fiasco    Story Here  Archive
New York Daily News 14 October 2004
Persistent voter problems in the state of Florida are threatening to plunge another national election into a crisis.
It was bad enough four years ago, when the presidency was decided by a mere 537 votes and Florida turned our election into an international laughingstock.


County executive won?t give more ballots to Milwaukee    Story Here  Archive
Milwaukee Freeman Newspapers 14 October 2004
MILWAUKEE - The county executive denied a request from the mayor to provide extra ballots for the Nov. 2 election, calling the city’s voter turnout estimates ‘‘ridiculous.

Partisan fingers point on voter-fraud issue    Story Here  Archive
By Peggy Lowe, Rocky Mountain News 14 October 2004
Colorado Secretary of State Donetta Davidson said Wednesday that she has been left "out of the loop" on voter fraud by the attorney general - and she will call for a grand jury if abuses aren't prosecuted.

Voter fraud alleged    Story Here  Archive
By ADRIENNE PACKER Las Vegas Review-Journal 14 October 2004
Federal and state authorities are looking into Democratic Party allegations that a voter registration group hired by the Republican Party tossed out registration forms signed by Democrats.
The FBI and state officials are reviewing comments by Eric Russell, a former employee of Voter Outreach of America, who claims to have witnessed supervisors throwing away Democrats' voter registration forms.


In '04 Florida, Lawsuits Begin Before Election    Story Here  Archive
ABBY GOODNOUGH New York Times 14 October 2004
MIAMI, Oct. 13 - Not a single ballot has been counted in the presidential election, yet Florida is already teeming with lawsuits charging the state and its county elections supervisors with voter disenfranchisement, a legal muddle likely to grow worse before Election Day.

Judge rules Ohio voters can cast ballots at wrong polling place    Story Here  Archive
JOHN SEEWER Associated Press 14 October 2004
TOLEDO, Ohio - A federal judge ruled Thursday that Ohio voters can cast ballots Nov. 2 at the wrong polling place as long as they are in the county where they are registered.
Voters who show up at the wrong polling place after moving without notifying the elections board or those whose names can't be found on the registration rolls should be able to cast provisional ballots there, U.S. District Court Judge James Carr said.


Nevada investigates voter registration    Story Here  Archive
CNN 14 October 2004
(CNN) Nevada election officials have launched an investigation into allegations that a Republican-led voter registration drive improperly disposed of forms it collected from potential Democratic voters.

County complaint fuels voter fraud probe    Story Here  Archive
JOHN SOWELL The News-Review 14 October 2004
Oregon elections officials have opened an investigation into allegations that some voter registration cards including those collected by canvassers in Roseburg may not have been turned in.

Suspicions raised over voting, registration; court actions taken    Story Here  Archive
BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press 14 October 2004
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - University of Florida students in Alachua County may have had their voter registration switched to the Republican Party without knowing it. In Leon County, voters are receiving calls in an apparent attempt to mislead them.
In Bay County, registration cards were turned naming voters as Republican when the voters might not be.


Nev. Move to Purge Some Dem Voters Fails    Story Here  Archive
ADAM GOLDMAN Associated Press 13 October 2004
LAS VEGAS - Elections officials have rebuffed an attempt by a former GOP operative to purge about 17,000 Democrats from the voter rolls in the battleground state of Nevada, where the two presidential candidates are in a dead heat.

Bradbury plans to investigate election complaint    Story Here  Archive
RUKMINI CALLIMACHI / Associated Press 13 October 2004
Secretary of State Bill Bradbury and Attorney General Hardy Myers plan to investigate allegations that a paid canvasser might have destroyed voter registration forms.

ACLU of Florida Analysis of Recent Election Data Shows State Rejected a Significant Number of Provisional Ballots As Illegal    Story Here  Archive
Press Release ACLU 13 October 2004
MIAMI The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida today released a report containing disturbing information about the number of provisional ballots cast by eligible voters that have been rejected as illegal during elections over the past two years in Florida. The report raises significant questions about whether every vote will be counted on November 2.

State, opponents argue over provisional ballot plan in court    Story Here  Archive
DAVID EGGERT Associated Press 13 October 2004
BAY CITY, Mich. - Michigan Democrats asked a federal judge Wednesday to reverse the state's decision to not count backup, or provisional, ballots cast in the wrong polling precincts on Nov. 2.

Voter Registrations Possibly Trashed    Story Here  Archive
By George Knapp, Investigative Reporter, KLAS-TV Las Vegas
Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely surprised on election day. The company claims hundreds of registration forms were thrown in the trash.

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