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Snafus invalidate 9,559 ballots Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, September 20, 2004 State elections officials say they are re-examining voter instructions and procedures after about one of every 26 ballots cast for Saturday's primary election did not get counted because of cross-party voting. A total of 9,559 ballots, or about 3.8 percent of the total primary election turnout of 248,683 ballots, were invalidated because voters voted for candidates in more than one party. | ||||||
Lawyers prepare for another deadlock, more recounts or a trip to the Supreme Court Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, September 20, 2004 WASHINGTON - Come Election Day, at least five "SWAT teams" of Democratic lawyers will have their bags packed, ready to go to whichever battleground state might turn into the next Florida. | ||||||
Miami-Dade elections officials plan to meet with international observers Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, September 20, 2004 Miami · Miami-Dade elections officials said Sunday that despite scheduling conflicts, they intend to meet with international observers who are touring Florida this week to study how elections have been conducted in Miami-Dade, Broward and Orange counties since the 2000 presidential vote. | ||||||
Foreign election observers arrive in U.S. Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, September 20, 2004 The foreign election monitors invited to observe the 2004 presidential elections by Secretary of State Colin Powell are not the only members of an international delegation in the U.S. for the purpose of examining the political process in action this fall. | ||||||
The Century Foundation Report Finds Racial Divide in Undercounted Votes from Punch Cards Ballots Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, September 20, 2004 NEW YORK, /U.S. Newswire/ As states around the country work to comply with new federal mandates for improving the election process, much attention has been focused on whether or not there should be paper trails for computerized voting. Lost in this high-voltage debate is the fact that many states are still using the outmoded and unreliable voting machines that were the center of attention right after Florida 2000. | ||||||
A look at voting in battleground states Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, September 20, 2004 President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are running hardest in 10 states that could determine the winner on Nov. 2, with several other states potentially in play. Several of those states could be the scene of postelection lawsuits or a recount similar to the one in Florida four years ago. | ||||||
Election task force asks for changes Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, September 20, 2004 Members of a task force put in place to review changes at the Napa County elections office and make recommendations for further modifications like what Registrar of Voters John Tuteur has done so far. But in several instances, the five-member group would have Tuteur take the changes a step further. | ||||||
Pentagon blocks site for voters outside U.S. Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, September 19, 2004 PARIS In a decision that could affect Americans abroad who are not yet registered to vote in the Nov. 2 presidential election, the Pentagon has begun restricting international access to the official Web site intended to help overseas absentee voters cast ballots. | ||||||
State's voting system has its sore spots Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, September 19, 2004 A number of problems with Indiana's voting system have been documented in recent years, including bloated voter rolls and a lack of poll workers. Here are three areas that could bear watching Nov. 2: | ||||||
Fight Over Voter ID Heats Up Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, September 18, 2004 Past the smoked turkey legs and spiral fries, the Mystery Tunnel and the Footsie Wootsie, Naomi Martinez registered voters at the State Fair. Her work on a sweaty September evening was aimed at signing up American Indians, who gained the right to vote in 1948. | ||||||
Parties anticipate chaotic election Observers mobilize for big day, lawyers prepare for fallout Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, September 18, 2004 The bitterness and bad feelings left from 2000's nasty, monthlong dispute over Florida's presidential vote could explode into election day chaos this November as both major parties get ready to fight that battle again, anywhere in the country. | ||||||
Ohio's strict ballot rules to cost votes, critics say Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, September 18, 2004 Thousands of votes in Ohio could be tossed in this year's presidential election because new state rules on provisional ballots are still too strict, voting-rights advocates warned Friday. | ||||||
A problem with voting Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, September 17, 2004 Within the past few years, due to my work and travel schedule, I have voted absentee ballot without incident. | ||||||
Elderly Poll Workers May Cause Problems Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, September 17, 2004 The biggest threat to the upcoming presidential election may not be malfunctioning voting machines or a terrorist attack, but the potential for confusion and mistakes by the nation's aging corps of precinct poll workers. The average age of poll workers in America is 72-years-old. Election officials fear that older poll workers not familiar with this era of computers and touch screens may deny many citizens their right to vote. | ||||||
How Denying the Vote to Ex-Offenders Undermines Democracy Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, September 17, 2004 Pundits blame apathy for the decline in voter turnout that has become a fact of life in the United States in the last several decades. But not everyone who skips the polls on Election Day does so by choice. This November, for example, an estimated five million people - roughly 2.3 percent of the number of people eligible to vote - will be barred from voting by state laws that strip convicted felons of the franchise, often temporarily but sometimes for life. | ||||||
Election monitors to meet with worried Florida voters Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, September 17, 2004 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - (KRT) - International elections monitors will be in South Florida this weekend meeting with groups concerned about voting in Florida in the November contest. | ||||||
RI voting plagued with problems Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, September 16, 2004 PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Secre-tary of State Matt Brown said Wednesday that the Board of Elections failed in its responsibilities to conduct elections, and he is calling on the agency to make immediate changes to its operations. Brown's criticism came a day after a statewide primary election, in which voting irregularities were reported in the city of Cranston. | ||||||
Federal investigators could target vote fraud Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, September 16, 2004 LAS VEGAS — The federal government could send federal investigators to look into possible voter registration fraud in Clark County, state officials said. | ||||||
No-party voters lost their ballot secrecy Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, September 16, 2004 A voter's party choice in Tuesday's primary election was supposed to remain secret. But that wasn't the case for Pierce and King county voters whose party choice was no party. | ||||||
Citizenship Day: September 17, 2004; Civic Minded Groups Team Up to Register New Voters, Protect All Votes Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, September 16, 2004 WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ The Center for Community Change teams up with People For the American Way Foundation and the Voter Protection Project of America's Families United to protect the vote of first-time voters on a day when America recognizes the privileges of citizenry. The Center's Community Voting Project, a unique electoral initiative that has registered nearly 100,000 new voters in disenfranchised communities through its partnership with 53 grassroots organizations in 24 states, has joined forces with the Election Protection coalition, the nation's most far-reaching effort to protect voter rights from now through Election Day and beyond. | ||||||
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