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Blackwell: Ohio will count most ballots of wrong-precinct voters Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, August 28, 2004 CLEVELAND - Ohio will count most provisional ballots of voters who show up at the wrong precinct, the state's top elections official said. Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell will issue revised orders directing local elections officials to accept more provisional ballots, spokesman Carlo LoParo said Friday. | ||||||
Groups launch campaigns to keep voters informed Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, August 26, 2004 If savvy New York businesswomen don't know their basic voting rights, Kay Maxwell figures many other Americans are a bit in the dark as well. | ||||||
Groups Say GOP Moves to Stifle Vote Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, August 26, 2004 The NAACP and other civil rights leaders yesterday charged that recent events suggest the Republican Party is mounting a campaign to keep African Americans and other minority voters away from the polls this November. | ||||||
Number of absentee ballots request up across the state Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, August 26, 2004 The demand for absentee ballots for Tuesday's primary is up as voters responding to get-out-the vote campaigns and the controversy over touch-screen voting machines are choosing to stick with a paper ballot. | ||||||
Diebold Wines and Dines Officials Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, August 26, 2004 At a time when there is much controversy over electronic voting and some election experts are raising concerns about the integrity of such voting, should the leading manufacturers of electronic voting machines be wining and dining state and local officials responsible for conducting elections? Well, they are. | ||||||
Missouri military voters can e-mail ballots in November Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, August 25, 2004 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri military members stationed in places such as Iraq will be able to cast their ballots by e-mail in November, the secretary of state's office said Wednesday. Secretary of State Matt Blunt military members serving in combat areas overseas can complete their ballots, then scan and e-mail them to the Department of Defense, which will forward the ballots to the appropriate local election officials. | ||||||
The Long Shadow of Jim Crow Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, August 25, 2004 Less then ten weeks before the national elections, potential problems with voter registration lists, new and unproven technologies, insufficient resources for poll worker training, and inadequate voter education are increasingly being scrutinized for their potential to rob voters of their right to cast a vote that is counted. These, however, are not the only threats to the integrity of the elections, as a report released by People For the American Way Foundation and the NAACP makes clear. | ||||||
Hindering America?s Vote Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, August 24, 2004 The Help America Vote Act (HAVA), the electoral reform bill passed by Congress in 2002, is a mixed blessing. In fact, HAVA never addressed the most glaring problem of American election administration—the decentralized election bureaucracy of more than 3,000 counties that run elections with few national standards, no uniformity and little oversight. | ||||||
NAACP Dispatches Voter Rapid Response Team to Florida; Lawyers and Election Observers to Oversee Primary Election Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, August 24, 2004 BALTIMORE, Aug. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is dispatching a team of lawyers and election workers to observe the Florida primary election and to assist voters who may have problems attempting to cast their ballots on August 31. | ||||||
Palm Beach County absentee ballot criticized Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, August 22, 2004 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Critics say Palm Beach County has come up with a confusing successor to the butterfly ballot by calling on absentee voters to cast their primary votes by connecting broken arrows. Theresa LePore, the elections supervisor who brought the butterfly ballot into disrepute in the 2000 presidential election, opted for an absentee ballot design calling on people to indicate their vote by drawing a line joining two ends of an arrow. | ||||||
Palm Beach County's absentee ballot points voters to confusion, some say Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, August 22, 2004 Jim Kemp shuddered when he saw Palm Beach County's absentee ballot. "People aren't going to understand this," he said of the ballot, which instructs people to connect an arrow to vote for the candidate of their choice. "It's just going to be a mess again." | ||||||
Suits over voting procedures echo nation's concern on issue Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, August 22, 2004 As if being a presidential battleground weren't enough, Missouri now finds itself in the national bull's-eye over two suits aimed at changing how the state conducts this fall's election. | ||||||
PERSPECTIVE: Felons have problems in getting right to vote restored Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, August 20, 2004 CINCINNATI - Convicted felons who want to have their voting rights restored after leaving prison are encountering problems with election officials who don't always interpret requirements correctly, political scientists and prisoner advocates say. | ||||||
Democrats want voter probe Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, August 20, 2004 WASHINGTON Six members of Congress asked Attorney General John Ashcroft on Thursday to investigate whether the Florida Department of Law Enforcement committed civil-rights violations in questioning some Orlando voters as part of a probe of last spring's mayoral election. | ||||||
Feds say poll judges misinterpret Utah law Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, August 19, 2004 The U.S. Department of Justice complained during Utah's primary election that poll judges were misinterpreting laws about provisional ballots, and more training could help ensure election results don't end up in court, the state elections director told lawmakers Wednesday. | ||||||
The New Hanging Chads Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, August 19, 2004 One of the scandals of the last presidential election was the large number of voters who were denied the right to vote because of foul-ups in the election system, like errors in the voting rolls or problems in directing voters to their correct polling places. As a result, Congress required that this year, voters be allowed to fill out provisional ballots if their eligibility is in question, and that the validity of those ballots be determined later on. It was a crucial reform, but in many places the ballots aren't working out the way they are supposed to, because of poor procedures and overly technical regulations. If this year's election is close, there are likely to be furious battles over how these rules were applied. While there is still time, state and local officials should fix the provisional-voting problems. | ||||||
Elections chief fears scheme Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, August 19, 2004 Summit County's Board of Elections chief is concerned there could be a scheme under way to cast two ballots under one person's name. Elections board Director Bryan Williams said Thursday that at least two suspected fraudulent voter-registration cards mailed to the Summit County board are for people already on the county's voting rolls. | ||||||
Tilting at the Ballot Box Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, August 18, 2004 The legendary cryptographer David Chaum has just invented something amazing, and his timing is nearly perfect. At a moment when electronic voting has been turned by a confluence of clueless election officials, slipshod technologies, dodgy vendors, and ever vigilant geeks from a great leap forward into an abject fiasco, Chaum has unveiled an e-voting system that's everything the current gizmos aren't. It's incredibly secure. It guarantees anonymity. Its results are verifiable. | ||||||
E.C. plan under scrutiny by feds Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, August 18, 2004 CROWN POINT — U.S. Justice Department election monitors grilled Lake County election officials behind closed doors about their plan to comply with federal election law at the polls in East Chicago. | ||||||
Group of unions sues state over provisional ballot law Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, August 18, 2004 TALLAHASSEE - In yet another election-year skirmish over voting, several unions went to Florida's highest court on Tuesday and asked it to strike down a law that requires people who use provisional ballots to cast them in the right precinct. | ||||||
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