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Winners and losers Story Here Archive | ||||||
Former president Jimmy Carter created a stir last week with a opinion piece in the Washington Post. It warned that Florida's voting system was gravely biased toward the Republican leadership. | ||||||
Early voting in battleground states could swing election Story Here Archive | ||||||
WASHINGTON - (KRT) - In Arizona, voters began casting presidential ballots Thursday, and elections officials in Maricopa County predict that more than half the votes will be cast before Election Day on Nov. 2. | ||||||
Election officials criticize glitches Story Here Archive | ||||||
Minnesota's new statewide voter registration system is still plagued by problems, local election officials said Thursday. But with just 32 days before the election, they pledged to make sure — at taxpayers' expense — that every eligible voter who wants to cast a ballot can do so. | ||||||
Military, other voters abroad, face technical and privacy challenges Story Here Archive | ||||||
The folks who defend democracy and help make American jobs and dollars in foreign markets deserve to vote as much as anyone, but during the past year leading up to the November national election, these military and other out-of-country voters have had a harder time than anyone. | ||||||
Diebold Loses Key Copyright Case Story Here Archive | ||||||
Students who sued Diebold Election Systems won their case against the voting machine maker on Thursday after a judge ruled that the company had misused the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and ordered the company to pay damages and fees. Lawyers for the students call the move a victory for free speech. | ||||||
Judge rules e-voting vendor misrepresented law Story Here Archive | ||||||
SAN JOSE, Calif. - A manufacturer of electronic voting equipment knowingly misrepresented its claims when it sent threatening letters to the Internet providers of people who had posted the company's internal documents online, a federal judge has ruled. | ||||||
Criticisms mount over election chief's decisions Story Here Archive | ||||||
COLUMBUS, Ohio - First there was controversy over new voting machines. Then Ohio's elections chief was taken to task for his orders about the weight of voter registration cards and what happens if voters go to the wrong poll Nov. 2 in this battleground state. | ||||||
Thousands in Florida may be surprised they can't vote Nov. 2 Story Here Archive | ||||||
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Potentially tens of thousands of people who think they are registered to vote could be turned away at the polls Nov. 2 because their voter registration forms weren't completely filled out. | ||||||
Illinois county clerk destroys ballots early Story Here Archive | ||||||
CAIRO, Ill. - The clerk in Alexander County said she destroyed all of the ballots from the 2002 election shortly before she received a Freedom of Information Act request to allow examination of several hundred questionable votes. | ||||||
After 2000 Florida fiasco, global experts find U.S. elections wanting Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 MIAMI - (KRT) - The very regal Dr. Brigalia Bam has carried a picture from the most magnificent day of her life halfway around the world. It shows a surging, undulating, twisting line of people so huge that its serpentine folds can't be fully captured; bodies seem to spill off all four sides of the frame. | ||||||
Florida still lacks uniform voting standard Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 Florida Congressman Robert Wexler's seemingly moribund quest for a statewide paper trail of votes cast on electronic voting machines got a reprieve this week from the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, and that's good news for Florida's voters. | ||||||
Black Voters 'Afraid' of Electronic Voting Machines, Activist Says Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 Miami (CNSNews.com) - An African-American civil rights spokeswoman said on Wednesday that the new computerized voting machines "terrify" her, and that blacks are "afraid of machines like that." | ||||||
Diebold Rep Now Runs Elections Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 An influential employee of voting machine maker Diebold Election Systems left the company recently to take a job as elections manager for a California county. Deborah Seiler, a sales representative for the beleaguered voting company, was hired a week ago and started Monday in Solano County, northeast of San Francisco in California's wine country. The position puts her second in command of elections in the county, under the registrar of voters. | ||||||
Black groups rail against Orleans registrar of voters Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, September 30, 2004 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Numerous residents who have participated in voter registration drives — some held months ago — have not received identification cards and are fearful of being disenfranchised, activists told a city council committee Thursday | ||||||
The Long Shadow of Jim Crow: Voter Intimidation and Suppression in America Today Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, September 29, 2004 In a nation where children are taught in grade school that every citizen has the right to vote, it would be comforting to think that the last vestiges of voter intimidation, oppression and suppression were swept away by the passage and subsequent enforcement of the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965. It would be good to know that voters are no longer turned away from the polls based on their race, never knowingly misdirected, misinformed, deceived or threatened. | ||||||
Democrats file suit over ballot counting Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, September 29, 2004 The Michigan and Bay County Democratic parties are suing Republican Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land in federal court over ballot counting. The parties filed suit in U.S District Court in Bay City on Tuesday. The state party said in a statement the case is over Land's refusal to count "provisional ballots" of voters who inadvertently vote at the wrong polling place in the Nov. 2 general election. | ||||||
Ballot provision may disenfranchise voters Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, September 29, 2004 Colorado's secretary of state has drafted a rule that would allow only presidential votes to count on some provisional ballots. The courts should throw out the rule. | ||||||
Absentee Ballot Mess Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, September 29, 2004 Des Moines, September 29th, 2004 - It's clearly a bad start for the absentee ballot process in Iowa. Thousands of mistakes are in the mail. Absentee ballots are supposed to be the key to a record voter turnout, but it looks like the master plan is coming up short. | ||||||
Pending fiasco Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, September 29, 2004 What can save the Florida election now? It's a dispiriting question. The stage is set for disaster. Fifteen counties will be using a paperless, touch-screen voting system that has a deeply troubling record of inaccuracy, and state officials have managed to tangle up valid challenges long enough to make it unlikely a more reliable method can be found. (Volusia and Flagler counties use the more reliable optical-scan voting machines, which produce paper ballots.) | ||||||
Absentee voting process in turmoil Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, September 29, 2004 Four years after overseas voting became a presidential election issue in Florida, millions of civilians and soldiers living abroad still face a bewildering system of absentee balloting that could prevent their votes from being counted. | ||||||
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