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NAACP sues elections chief over early voting Story Here Archive | ||||||
DELAND The NAACP filed a federal voting rights lawsuit Thursday against Volusia County Supervisor of Elections Deanie Lowe, plunging the county into an elections controversy just weeks before the Nov. 2 general election. | ||||||
I-Team Investigation: Most Indiana Counties Using Illegal Ballot Design Story Here Archive | ||||||
(Statewide) - Voters in 90 Indiana counties will vote November second on ballots listing candidates by office. But an I-Team investigation exposes why counties that use the office-block ballot design are in violation of state law. | ||||||
About 1,800 felons removed from voter rolls in 39 counties Story Here Archive | ||||||
MIAMI - About 1,800 new felons were removed from Florida election rolls since a controversial state database of ineligible voters was scrapped in July because it was flawed, but election officials aren't reviewing old records to see if they may have missed anyone. | ||||||
Sec. Davidson: Don't Let Provisional Ballots Become this Election's 'Hanging Chads' Story Here Archive | ||||||
We now know that more than 1.5 million votes were lost in the 2000 elections because of clerical errors with registration. In an attempt to prevent this from ever happening again, the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) requires that this year, eligible voters who go to the polls on Election Day not be turned away. Instead, these voters are allowed to fill out a provisional ballot. Provisional ballots are intended as “fail safe” voting for those voters whose eligibility to vote is in question for any reason (e.g. their voter registration is in doubt, they have been erroneously purged from the voting rolls, they have problems presenting identification). The idea is to allow people to vote, and verify their eligibility later. This is a crucial reform – but conflicting laws and regulations threaten to make matters even worse for Colorado voters. | ||||||
Top Florida election official faces more legal battles over paper ballots Story Here Archive | ||||||
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - (KRT) - Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood this week lost a skirmish in the court battle over whether the state's touch-screen should be equipped with paper receipts and simultaneously was hit with another lawsuit accusing her of illegally stopping would-be voters from casting ballots in the Nov. 2 election. | ||||||
Tribune editorial: Registration irregularities troubling Story Here Archive | ||||||
With Florida's general election less than a month away, concerns about the integrity of that 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. | ||||||
Orange flouts Hood on voters Story Here Archive | ||||||
Orange County will defy Secretary of State Glenda Hood and accept some incomplete voter registration applications, officials said Wednesday. | ||||||
United States getting election advice from outsiders Story Here Archive | ||||||
WASHINGTON (AP) The United States, accustomed to giving advice on democracy, is in the unfamiliar position of getting some from international election observers schooled in Tajikistan, Ethiopia and other emerging democracies. | ||||||
Provisional ballots join list of Florida's voting concerns Story Here Archive | ||||||
Tanya Julian barely had time to vote when poll workers told her she was at the wrong precinct. With only a few minutes to get to her proper precinct, poll workers gave her a provisional ballot, which the Florida Legislature created after the 2000 recount to make sure every vote counts. | ||||||
The Next Florida Could Be ... Florida Story Here Archive | ||||||
Plenty of states from New Mexico to Oregon to Nevada are contending with possible voter fraud, ballot challenges and hard questions about vote-counting. But the "next Florida" might just turn out to be, well, Florida. | ||||||
Officials scramble to revise absentee ballot Story Here Archive | ||||||
With the question of whether independent candidate Ralph Nader will be allowed back on the presidential ballot in Ohio hanging over their heads, local elections officials continued to notify absentee voters not to give him their vote. | ||||||
Election directive rattles officials Story Here Archive | ||||||
Franklin County elections officials want to know how much they can challenge a directive from the secretary of state on provisional ballots before they lose their jobs. | ||||||
Judge Weighs Pros, Cons Of New Ballot Rules Story Here Archive | ||||||
DENVER (AP) Any burden put on voters by new state rules governing the use of provisional ballots and requiring voters to prove their identity at the polls is outweighed by the value they have in reducing the risk of voter fraud, Secretary of State Donetta Davidson said Wednesday. | ||||||
Florida prosecutors asked to probe possible voter fraud Story Here Archive | ||||||
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Duval County elections officials asked state prosecutors Thursday to investigate possible voter fraud involving 25 registration forms that appear to have bogus addresses, including some that match a public park, a parking lot and a Jacksonville utilities building. | ||||||
Absentee ballots to be corrected Story Here Archive | ||||||
SAN BERNARDINO - Many absentee voters in the 31st State Senate and 62nd Assembly districts will receive corrected ballots later this week after the party affiliations of candidates in the two races were left off ballots already mailed. | ||||||
Cuyahoga Co. defies ballot order Story Here Archive | ||||||
COLUMBUS - The battle over ballots cast by voters whose names aren't on the books where they are voting escalated on Tuesday, with Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell promising to throw out votes cast at the wrong polling place. | ||||||
Second lawsuit challenges Ohio provisional voting rules Story Here Archive | ||||||
A voting-rights group filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell's rules on provisional voting - the second such legal challenge over the controversial issue. | ||||||
Fla. Supreme Court to hear lawsuit over provisional ballots Story Here Archive | ||||||
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Florida Supreme Court agreed to hear a lawsuit challenging restrictions on using provisional ballots, which are part of a law that overhauled the state's voting system after the disputed 2000 presidential election. Justices voted Tuesday to hold a hearing on the lawsuit Oct. 13. They could order election supervisors to make changes to state voting procedures days before the Nov. 2 presidential election. | ||||||
High court to review voting rights Story Here Archive | ||||||
TALLAHASSEE - Many of Florida's voters may still get a chance to use a paper ballot on Election Day, thanks to a long-shot lawsuit that has rocketed forward to the state's highest court. By a razor-thin margin, the Florida Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to take up a lawsuit challenging the law that overhauled the state's election system after the chaotic 2000 presidential election. | ||||||
Teams of lawyers prepare in case of a recount Story Here Archive | ||||||
Haunted by memories of hanging chads and butterfly ballots from four years ago in Florida, Democrats and Republicans are gathering cadres of lawyers to fight for every vote in case of a recount in Pennsylvania. | ||||||
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