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Early voting option explored Story Here Archive | ||||||
Volusia County officials scrambled Monday to devise a last-ditch plan to open additional early voting sites should a federal judge order them to do so. Last week, the local NAACP sued Supervisor of Elections Deanie Lowe, claiming the decision to have only one early voting site in DeLand unfairly limits East Side black voters' access to pre-Election Day balloting. Just more than half of Volusia County's black residents live in Daytona Beach, according to Census 2000. | ||||||
Judge orders revision of ballots in Broward, Palm Beach Story Here Archive | ||||||
The ink is dry, and the ballots are in the mail. The voting machines are programmed. But if a judge's ruling is upheld, elections offices in Broward and Palm Beach counties will have to start over. | ||||||
Election office racing clock Story Here Archive | ||||||
TAMPA - Hillsborough Supervisor of Elections Buddy Johnson has put staffers on 74-hour work weeks, hired a score of $9-an-hour temporary workers and busted his overtime budget to handle a record influx of voter registration applications. | ||||||
Voters to See Few Big Changes After Fla. Story Here Archive | ||||||
Voters clamored for reform after the fiasco in Florida four years ago. But when they return to vote again for president on Nov. 2, many may be surprised to discover how little has changed. Instead of brand-new equipment, computerized voter-registration lists and other improvements, most voters will find the same machines they used last time, few changes for poll workers, and little sign of the overhaul Americans were promised after the 2000 election | ||||||
E-Voting Group Sues Maryland Elections Board Story Here Archive | ||||||
A Maryland group seeking paper trails on touch-screen voting machines today sued the State Board of Elections to win the right to monitor polling places on Election Day. | ||||||
State to search out felon voters Story Here Archive | ||||||
Secretary of State Donetta Davidson on Monday said she will comb through three state databases and create a fourth to flag the more than 6,000 felons on Colorado voting rolls. | ||||||
More weaknesses in state's voting system Story Here Archive | ||||||
With exactly three weeks until the election, and just six days before early voting begins, the secretary of state's office has 6,000 more reasons to be concerned about the integrity of this year's election. | ||||||
Officials try to head off confusion on limited voter ID provision Story Here Archive | ||||||
JACKSON, Miss. - To ID or not to ID? That's the question poll workers will be asking Nov. 2 as Mississippians vote in the general election. | ||||||
Voter advocates, state struggle to make best touch-screen voting Story Here Archive | ||||||
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Groups upset over the inability to recount touch-screen ballots offered suggestions Tuesday on what to do if the presidential election is as close as it was in 2000, conceding that nothing can be done this year to physically recount computer ballots. | ||||||
Allegations of voter registration fraud rankle nonprofit voter groups Story Here Archive | ||||||
ST. LOUIS - A suburban St. Louis Republican committeeman asked the St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners to investigate voter registration efforts by nonprofit groups linked to the Democratic party Tuesday. But the groups said his petition is merely an attempt to disenfranchise new voters. | ||||||
Leon County's uncovered 1,500 fraudulent voter registration cards Story Here Archive | ||||||
With Florida's general election less than a month away, concerns about the integrity of our vote continue to mount. In recent months there have been allegations of voter intimidation, discovery of faulty registration purge lists and the continuing controversy over touch-screen voting machines that leave no paper trail and therefore reduce the potential for accurate recounts if needed. The state didn't need any other questions being raised. | ||||||
Early voting shut out Story Here Archive | ||||||
If two or three more hurricanes were to hit Volusia County between now and Nov. 2, would elections scheduled for that day be canceled? Of course not. Local officials would find a way to set up polls, accept ballots and count them. It would be difficult and stressful. But it would get done. | ||||||
Suits aim to head off problems Story Here Archive | ||||||
WASHINGTON - Ohio may be the next Florida. With three weeks until Nov. 2, Ohio has become the epicenter of lawsuits over an election that has yet to be held. Officials there are trying to fend off court challenges about provisional ballots, punch cards and even Ralph Nader's placement on the ballot. | ||||||
Corrected Ballots in Mail Story Here Archive | ||||||
Sixty thousand corrected absentee ballots are being sent by first-class mail after San Bernardino County election officials found party affiliations were left off of the 31st State Senate seat being vacated by Senator Jim Brulte (R-Rancho Cucamonga). The "defective" absentee ballots were mailed to residents of the 31st District last week by bulk mail. The district includes most of the mountain communities including Crestline, Lake Arrowhead and Running Springs. | ||||||
Three-Fourths of Voting Machines will be Used Again on Nov. 2 Story Here Archive | ||||||
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite the distribution of more than $1.3 billion to 42 states to correct faulty voting machines and make other improvements for next month’s presidential election, approximately 75 percent of voters will use the same machines they used four years ago, a development that worries the chairman of the federal commission overseeing balloting changes. | ||||||
Be Part of the Solution Story Here Archive | ||||||
The 2000 mess in Florida was supposed to make the nation more dedicated to ensuring that elections are fair, but it appears to have had the opposite effect. The chances of having an election in which all qualified citizens can cast votes that are counted accurately seems more remote than ever. Local election officials have been choosing electronic voting machines of questionable reliability that do not produce a paper record. Secretaries of state have been rejecting valid voter registration forms on technicalities. And rather than trying to attract supporters to their own candidates, some political operatives are concentrating on disqualifying voters on the other side. | ||||||
Many problems from 2000 vote fixed; others loom Story Here Archive | ||||||
Federal and state leaders, county elections officials and Florida voters have struggled for four years to exorcise the ghosts of the catastrophic 2000 presidential count. They rewrote and refined elections law. They purged old, failed voting technologies. In some venues, they banished elections supervisors blamed for the blunders. | ||||||
A Clean Count? Story Here Archive | ||||||
Oct. 18 issue - It's just about impossible to stop Claude Hawkins from voting. The 24-year-old supply store clerk from Kansas City, Mo., was so enthusiastic about this year's election that he registered to vote three times, just to make sure his application wasn't lost. But when he showed up to vote in the state's Democratic primary last August, the poll worker told him he wasn't on the list. She offered to check with the board of elections. | ||||||
Vote of no confidence from losing candidate Story Here Archive | ||||||
A defeated Democratic Assembly candidate in Brooklyn has charged voter tampering and may challenge her opponent's victory. Inna Kaminsky, who lost to incumbent Adele Cohen in the Sept. 14 Democratic primary for the 46th District (Bay Ridge, Brighton Beach, Coney Island), is considering filing a complaint with the Board of Elections. | ||||||
Recounting procedural concerns before Election Day Story Here Archive | ||||||
CANTON, Ohio — Linda Fogle hurries from the Stark County Board of Elections to her car in a space reserved for absentee voters. On Election Day, the retired medical assistant already will be in Arizona for the winter. She drove downtown to vote early because she found the mail-in ballot confusing. She didn't like the punch-card version at the elections office much better. | ||||||
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