More recounts in the offing Story Here Archive |
Chris Graham Augusta Free Press 29 November 2004 With a recount about to get under way in Ohio, third-party presidential candidates Michael Badnarik and David Cobb aren't ready to stop at a second count of ballots cast in the Buckeye State.
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In Ohio, Jackson demands probe into voting woes Story Here Archive |
By JAMES DREW Toledo Blade 29 November 2004 COLUMBUS - The Rev. Jesse Jackson called for Congress to investigate alleged irregularities in the presidential election in Ohio, from a shortage of voting machines in predominantly black and Democratic precincts to voters who weren't told how to cast a regular ballot.
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Judge considers challenge to Bush victory in Nevada Story Here Archive |
SCOTT SONNER, Associated Press Writer 28 November 2004 A judge was considering Monday whether to allow a legal challenge to move forward aimed at blocking Nevada's five electoral votes from being cast next month for President Bush.
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Recount puts focus on Alabama struggle with segregation-era laws Story Here Archive |
PHILLIP RAWLS Associated Press 29 November 2004 MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ? Election officials began a statewide recount Monday to determine if a measure to remove segregation-era language from Alabama's constitution was rejected by a narrow margin, as the Nov. 2 canvass showed.
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Request for another governor's race recount expected this week Story Here Archive |
KING-TV 29 November 2004 SEATTLE - As one recount flows into another, nearly four weeks after Election Day, voters still don't know who'll succeed Democrat Gary Locke as governor of Washington on Inauguration Day, Jan. 12. Republican Dino Rossi, the underdog, has won both counts that have been conducted so far, by the tiniest margin in state history. With all ballots counted, and recounted, Rossi led by just 42 votes of 2.8 million cast. But Democrat Christine Gregoire is fighting on. The Democrats are expected to ask for another recount by hand.
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Judge to rule today on challenge to Bush victory in Nevada Story Here Archive |
Scott Sonner ASSOCIATED PRESS 29 November 2004 A judge intends to decide today whether to allow a legal challenge to move forward aimed at blocking Nevada?s five electoral votes from being cast next month for President Bush.
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Skepticism spawns broad effort to push voting reform Story Here Archive |
Wyatt Buchanan, San Francisco Chronicle 28 November 2004 The 2004 election arguably the most scrutinized ever held in the United States has spotlighted problems with the voting process that are decades old and long overlooked.
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Why not uniform standards for all voters? Story Here Archive |
Opinion Miami Herald 28 November 2004 Look beyond the national results of the November election to the voting process itself, and this becomes clear: Much more must be done to make voting a uniform and fair process for all.
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Counting Every Vote Story Here Archive |
Editorial Capital Times (WI) 28 November 2004 Following a troubled campaign and disputed voting, which produced a result that many believe had been warped by electoral missteps and misdeeds, tens of thousands of supporters of Viktor Yushchenko, the Ukrainian opposition leader, rallied in Kiev's Independence Square to demand a full and accurate accounting of the people's sentiments.
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Editorial: Counting every vote Story Here Archive |
Madison, WI The Capital Times 27 November 2004 Following a troubled campaign and disputed voting, which produced a result that many believe had been warped by electoral missteps and misdeeds, tens of thousands of supporters of Viktor Yushchenko, the Ukrainian opposition leader, rallied in Kiev's Independence Square to demand a full and accurate accounting of the people's sentiments.
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Voter suppression efforts mired election Story Here Archive |
Karen Juanita Carrillo The Amsterdam News 27 November 2004 Reports from across the country found that those attempting to cast votes at Black and Latino area polling sites on Election Day, Nov. 2, faced misleading phone calls, threats that they could face arrest while trying to cast a ballot, proof of identity demands, and attempts to have their votes disqualified.
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Independent vote count confirms Bush win in northern Florida Story Here Archive |
MEG LAUGHLIN and DAVID KIDWELL Miami Herald 27 November 2004 LAKE BUTLER, Fla. - Since George W. Bush captured Florida and the White House again, critics have fixed their sights on northern pockets of the Sunshine State and asked: How did the Republicans win so heavily in counties stocked with Democrats?
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In South Florida precincts, only minor discrepancies found Story Here Archive |
ALFONSO CHARDY and DAVID KIDWELL Miami Herald 27 November 2004 MIAMI - When Broward County officials discovered a computer glitch that miscounted thousands of absentee ballots just two days after the election, fears immediately surfaced about the accuracy of all electronic returns in Florida.
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North Carolina's ballot blues Story Here Archive |
Joyce McCloy News Observer 26 November 2004 North Carolina's election problems will not be that easily remedied. This year's disaster shows that many election workers are in over their heads.
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Validate the vote Story Here Archive |
Ian H. Solomon Baltimore Sun 26 November 2004 MOST MAINSTREAM newspapers have already dismissed stories of voting fraud and voting rights violations in the November election as baseless or irrelevant. Sen. John Kerry's concession is supposed to demonstrate that there is no story here. Give up, go home, it's all over.
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Pulaski County?s tallies flawed, so state to ?amend? Nov. 2 vote result Story Here Archive |
JAKE BLEED Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 25 November 2004 Two days after certifying final results for the Nov. 2 election, the Arkansas secretary of state?s office said it must "amend" those results after discovering an error in how votes were counted in Pulaski County. "We?re going to have to amend the certification results for Pulaski County," said Janet Miller, deputy secretary of state for elections and public relations. "Their hard copy and what they sent us on the computer was wrong."
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Orange County's 1,094,405 Votes Are Tallied; Several Recounts Are Possible Story Here Archive |
Jean O. Pasco, Los Angeles Times 25 November 2004 The Orange County registrar's office finished counting the remaining ballots from the Nov. 2 election Wednesday, with the winners unchanged from earlier counts.
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More Voting Questions Raised Story Here Archive |
By Jon Craig The Columbus Dispatch 25 November 2004 Several new voting concerns surfaced yesterday as lawyers combed totals from the November 2 presidential election.
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E-voting faces new scrutiny Story Here Archive |
Robert Lemos , Richard Shim and Evan Hansen CNet News 24 November 2004 A newly announced federal investigation of the November election will bring fresh scrutiny on the performance of e-voting machines, but election experts said they believe any impact will be limited to future political contests.
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Election Company Has Long Criminal History Story Here Archive |
Daniel Hopsicker MadCow Morning News 24 November 2004 ?An electronic voting system is to a mechanical one what a nuclear bomb is to a hand grenade... If someone manages to sabotage it, the results can be catastrophic."
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