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Suit claims some ex-cons misled on voting rights Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, August 18, 2004 COLUMBUS — Once they’ve served their time, felons can vote in Ohio. But that’s not what state officials and boards of elections in Ohio have been telling them, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants and the Racial Fairness Project. | ||||||
Officials kept felons from voting, lawsuit charges Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, August 18, 2004 Election officials in 21 Ohio counties, including Lake and Ashtabula, have misled felons about their rights and prevented them from registering to vote, prisoner-advocacy groups charge in a lawsuit. | ||||||
Supreme Court gets a ballot battle Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, August 18, 2004 Tallahassee resident Brett Cotten was in the right building - but the wrong room - when he voted for governor in 2002. Had he stepped across the hall, the provisional ballot he cast when his name was not found on the voting rolls would have been counted. But there are two precinct voting locations at the Lafayette Park Community Center. Since he was in the wrong one, his ballot was thrown out. | ||||||
Election '04 Alert: More Drama in Florida Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, August 17, 2004 (Florida) Last week the Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that Palm Beach County's elections chief said that there is a mistake on absentee ballots that were recently mailed to over 22,000 Florida residents. Ballots were sent out with instructions stating that signatures must be witnessed or their votes won't count, however, a witness' signature is no longer required on absentee ballots. | ||||||
Suppress the Vote? Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, August 16, 2004 The big story out of Florida over the weekend was the tragic devastation caused by Hurricane Charley. But there's another story from Florida that deserves our attention. | ||||||
LePore not good choice, but she's the only choice Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, August 14, 2004 If "None of the Above" appeared on ballots in Florida this year, the Palm Beach County supervisor of elections race would tempt many voters to choose it. | ||||||
State ceases felon voting purge Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, August 14, 2004 TALLAHASSEE - In an effort to clean up one of its most notable and damaging messes, the state asked election supervisors Friday to abandon efforts to purge many potential felons from the voting rolls. | ||||||
Voter-roll list mailed to Florida counties Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, August 13, 2004 TALLAHASSEE — Florida election officials on Thursday mailed counties names of nearly 1,000 voters they now say should never have been purged from voter rolls four years ago. Secretary of State spokeswoman Jenny Nash said the letter came as the result of mediation from a lawsuit brought by civil rights groups. | ||||||
Another Florida Fiasco Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, August 13, 2004 Amid mounting signs of another Florida fiasco looming over the November election, there was a stark symbolism — probably unintended, but palpable nonetheless — in the invitation extended this month to the respected Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to send international teams of election observers to watch America's polling places. In effect, American democracy is under a microscope. | ||||||
Birds in the hand Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, August 13, 2004 AUSTIN, Texas In the national "Crossfire" that passes for political debate these days, we observe much arm-waving over whether the latest "terrorist threat" warnings are on the level or merely designed to take voters' minds off bad job news, bad Iraq news, bad Afghanistan news, etc. I boldly suggest not a single mouth-flapper on either side has any idea. How the hell would any of them know what Al Qaeda is up to? | ||||||
Mistake found on absentee ballots in Palm Beach County Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, August 12, 2004 Palm Beach County's elections chief said Tuesday that there is a mistake on some absentee ballots. Voters should know that a witness' signature is no longer required on absentee ballots, Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore said. | ||||||
E-voting ill-advised solution to overseas ballot problem Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, August 11, 2004 Secretary of State Matt Blunt's office is exploring whether soldiers serving overseas can e-mail ballots for the general election. The office is awaiting a decision from the Department of Defense. A complaint from Jim Avery, a Republican state representative and a combat engineer with the National Guard's 1140th Engineering Battalion, sparked the exploration. None of the soldiers in his squad received their absentee ballots in time to vote in last week's primary. | ||||||
Judge grants Democrats' request to block election results Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, August 11, 2004 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A federal judge temporarily blocked certification of Missouri's primary election results in federal and statewide races Wednesday and set a hearing for next week on whether to count the ballots of some people who voted at the wrong polling places. | ||||||
Counties to be told 1,300 felons have voting rights Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, August 10, 2004 TALLAHASSEE — Florida election officials are preparing to tell county election supervisors to restore voting rights to as many as 1,300 people wrongfully removed from the rolls four years ago. | ||||||
The Shame of New York Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, August 10, 2004 In this presidential year, the election systems of swing states like Florida are being subjected to considerable scrutiny. Other states' systems, which may be just as troubled but unlikely to produce a crisis in the presidential vote count, are being ignored. New York, in particular, has one of the nation's most dysfunctional, opaque and patronage-ridden structures for running elections. It needs an overhaul, starting with the New York State Board of Elections, which should be dismantled. | ||||||
State Democratic Party sues over voting issue Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, August 10, 2004 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The Missouri Democratic Party has sued Republican Secretary of State Matt Blunt, claiming voters who cast provisional ballots in the August primary at the wrong polling places should have had their votes counted anyway. | ||||||
Provisional Ballots Raise New Questions Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, August 10, 2004 WASHINGTON - Tens of thousands of Americans will vote in November using a special kind of ballot that must be counted by hand, potentially leaving the outcome of the presidential election in doubt as elections officials argue over each vote. | ||||||
Panel cites poll workers' age as problem Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, August 9, 2004 WASHINGTON — The biggest threat to November's presidential election is not balky voting machines or a terrorist attack, but the potential for confusion and mistakes by the nation's aging corps of 1.5 million precinct poll workers, federal election officials say. | ||||||
Boies, Lawyers in 2000 Fight on Call for Florida's 2004 Vote Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, August 9, 2004 Barry Richard and David Boies, two of the courtroom stars of the infamous 2000 presidential ballot recount fight in Florida, are set to do battle again if voting problems arise in the George W. Bush-John Kerry contest in November. | ||||||
Florida's secretary of state in the spotlight Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, August 8, 2004 TALLAHASSEE For a decade as mayor of one of Florida's largest cities, Glenda Hood was seen as a rising Republican star with one problem: little visibility outside Orlando. | ||||||
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