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Florida experience, terror threats prompt unprecedented polling place monitoring Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, September 6, 2004 COLUMBUS, Ohio - Unprecedented efforts are being made to monitor the casting and counting of ballots in Ohio on Nov. 2 because of concerns about terrorism and potential election malfunctions. Law enforcement agencies in many counties are planning additional security on Election Day. | ||||||
Problems Abound in Election System Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, September 5, 2004 When Americans go to the polls in November to elect a president, they will confront a voting system beset by many of the same problems that produced the bitterly disputed outcome four years ago and led to a 36-day legal standoff ultimately decided by the Supreme Court. | ||||||
Motives murky in board's move to oust Lamone Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, September 5, 2004 Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and suspended state elections chief Linda H. Lamone agree about the most pressing issue facing Maryland's elections board: the integrity of the state's new electronic voting system. And even the most staunch Republicans don't think Lamone, a Democrat, abused her power to help her party. | ||||||
Voting irregularities could confound a tight election Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, September 4, 2004 It could happen again, but it might not be in Florida this time. Almost four years after the 2000 recount debacle filled the streets with protesters, snarled the court system and delayed the election outcome for five weeks, Americans once more find themselves in a deadlocked presidential campaign as the contest enters the stretch run. | ||||||
Denying the Troops a Secret Ballot Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, September 3, 2004 Members of the military will be allowed to vote this year by faxing or e-mailing their ballots - after waiving their right to a secret ballot. Beyond this fundamentally undemocratic requirement, the Electronic Transmission Service, as it's known, has far too many problems to make it reliable, starting with the political partisanship of the contractor running it. The Defense Department is making matters worse by withholding basic information about the service, and should suspend it immediately. | ||||||
Exclusion from absentee-vote recount angers Democrats Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, September 2, 2004 It was a hard-nosed standoff. Supervisor of elections officials growling on one side of the counter, telling Democratic Party activists they had to get out of Dodge — or at least off the premises. The Democrats insisting on their rights, refusing to budge and risking arrest. | ||||||
Blacks Likely To Be Denied The Vote Again Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, September 2, 2004 We haven't yet reached the final lap of the presidential campaign. But one can say with a gloomy confidence that America is on course to endure another scarring controversy over whether some Americans are in danger of being wrongly denied their right to vote. | ||||||
Voting Machine Manufacturers Wine and Dine Election Officials Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, September 1, 2004 Voting Machine Manufacturers Wine and Dine Election Officials | ||||||
States Offer Overseas E-mail Ballots Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, August 31, 2004 North Dakota became the second state in as many weeks to announce that its registered voters living abroad could use an e-mail service provided by the DoD's Federal Voting Assistance Plan (FVAP) to cast their ballots. | ||||||
Ballot rejects upset some Democrats Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, August 31, 2004 WEST PALM BEACH - Some Palm Beach County Democrats are upset the county's canvassing board rejected 134 absentee ballots Monday because voters were apparently absent-minded, forgetting to sign their name on the outside of the envelope. | ||||||
Election Protection ?Test Run? Going Smoothly Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, August 31, 2004 Despite scattered reports of problems, as of 6:15 p.m. today, Florida’s primary is going fairly smoothly, as was expected. The Election Protection Coalition’s 60-precinct trial run delivered excellent results, with numerous reports from voters, and strong participation by volunteer canvassers, poll monitors, lawyers and law students offering assistance and advice, said Ralph G. Neas, President of the People For the American Way Foundation (PFAWF). | ||||||
E-Voting Reform in the U.S. Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, August 30, 2004 The November election is fast approaching, and all over the country people are wondering if the results produced by paperless, electronic voting machines will be reliable. This issue of California Voter Foundation news (CVF-NEWS) provides a progress report on states that are improving election security, and suggests ten ways election officials across the nation can act now to secure the vote this November. | ||||||
Spirit of distrust over 2000 election haunts primary Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, August 30, 2004 To get an idea of the paranoia and distrust that is swirling around Tuesday's election, consider: n At least a half-dozen groups have set up toll-free numbers for voters to call if they encounter problems. | ||||||
Get to correct precinct to vote Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, August 30, 2004 Four months after the disputed 2000 presidential election, the Governor's Select Task Force on Election Procedures, Standards and Technology recommended that the state Division of Elections "examine viable options for using provisional ballots so that voters whose eligibility is in question at the polling place on election days can submit votes in appropriate races subject to verification of their eligibility." | ||||||
Florida Fixed Again? Absentee Ballots Go AWOL Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, August 30, 2004 MACON,GA.-On Friday, Theresa LePore, Supervisor of Elections in Palm Beach, candidate for re-election as Supervisor of Elections, chose to supervise her own election, no one allowed. This Tuesday, Florida votes for these nominally non-partisan posts. | ||||||
Civil rights groups to educate voters, monitor elections Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, August 30, 2004 Concerns about possible voter disenfranchisement in Tuesday's primary election have drawn several civil rights groups to South Florida and elsewhere in the state to educate voters, monitor polls and provide legal assistance to those who may encounter problems casting ballots. | ||||||
Florida Primary to Test More Than Candidates Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, August 29, 2004 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — With parts of the state still cleaning up the destruction caused by Hurricane Charley, voters go to the polls Tuesday for a primary that will decide the major parties' candidates to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Bob Graham and test Florida's ability to hold trouble-free elections. | ||||||
Flaws in state balloting loom large Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, August 29, 2004 Four years after the Florida presidential vote taught the other 49 states that they needed to modernize and improve safeguards in their voting systems, key reforms in Pennsylvania remain incomplete or undone. | ||||||
At risk on Election Day Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, August 29, 2004 VOTING IS endangered in the United States. Too many voting machines didn't work in the 2000 presidential election. Too many people succumb to apathy on Election Day. And too many state officials accept shoddy and possibly underhanded election proceedings. In 2000, Florida became a national example of election flaws, from hanging chads to felon-purged voting lists that mistakenly took the vote away from people who were not felons. An investigation by the United States Commission on Civil Rights found other problems: poorly maintained voter registration lists, poorly trained poll workers who were not aware of voting rights, and little or no access for voters in wheelchairs. | ||||||
Lawsuit surrounds provisional ballot law Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, August 29, 2004 As the elections grow closer, still more problems bombard Florida and its methods of voting. Most recently, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees filed a lawsuit and the Service Employees International Union asked the court to consider whether state laws pertaining to provisional ballots violate the state Constitution. | ||||||
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