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KLEIN QUESTIONS; LEPORE ANSWERS Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, August 7, 2004 State Sen. Ron Klein, D-Delray Beach, recently sent this posting concerning Election Day to his constituents, after he met with Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore: | ||||||
Watchdogs of every stripe prepare to check Fla. vote Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, August 7, 2004 Four years and people haven't forgotten yet. Palm Beach County, land of the hanging chad, the butterfly ballot and the uncounted recount. | ||||||
Florida poll workers getting unprecedented lessons on how to master disasters Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, August 7, 2004 Florida election officials are preparing poll workers like never before, talking to them about white-powder incidents and trench-coat scenarios that were unthinkable just a few years ago. | ||||||
The unthinkable must be considered Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, August 6, 2004 Federal officials have given some thought to legislation that would give federal agencies power to postpone elections in the event of terrorist attacks or a natural disaster. At first glance, the idea of postponing a presidential election is inconceivable. Even in 1864, during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln put his presidency on the line, and the election went forward. | ||||||
Kerry rallies legal eagles for E-Day Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, August 6, 2004 John Kerry's presidential campaign is putting together an army of volunteer lawyers and readying them to descend on precincts where Election Day problems may arise. | ||||||
European team due to observe election Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, August 6, 2004 The State Department has invited an international team to observe the presidential election in November, prompting a group of liberal Democrats in Congress to claim partial victory in what last month grew into a nasty partisan battle. | ||||||
Can you hack the vote? Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, August 6, 2004 AUGUST 06, 2004 - Electronic voting systems have drawn fire from courts, lawmakers and citizens groups and now they're under attack by hackers. It's an organized assault, too. E-voting technology expert Rebecca Mercuri, a Harvard research fellow who has been outspoken in her opposition to such systems, has issued a "Hack the Vote" challenge, trying to illustrate what she calls the systems' unreliability and vulnerability. | ||||||
A World of Suspicion Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004 Only a few months ago, Napa County supervisor Mike Rippey was at ease in a world based on trust. He assumed that the voting system was reliable, secure and accurate. But now, like thousands of other Americans for whom election results just don't compute anymore, he resides in a world of doubt and suspicion. | ||||||
Sloppy paperwork, bad math blamed for late election results Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004 ST. LOUIS - Sloppy paperwork and bad math were blamed for St. Louis being the last jurisdiction to report its final results to the state in Tuesday's primary election. Final results from the city weren't reported until 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, more than four hours after St. Louis County reported its results. | ||||||
ACLU weighing litigation to ensure Nevadans' votes count Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, August 5, 2004 The Nevada chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is weighing a possible lawsuit to clear up confusion over provisional voting, which for the first time lets voters cast ballots even if their names aren't on the rolls at precinct polling sites. | ||||||
More time needed to count military ballots, local election official says Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, August 3, 2004 Thousands of votes from U.S. troops overseas could go uncounted again in November without emergency legislation extending deadlines for the ballots, a Chicago election official warned President Bush in a letter Tuesday. | ||||||
Op-ed: The November Vote: D?j? vu All over Again? Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, August 3, 2004 It's just the beginning of August. The Democrats have just concluded their convention; the Republicans are less than a month away from theirs—and thus, the general election campaign has yet to begin. 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—whether by accident or deliberately—their right to vote. | ||||||
Florida knew of voter list problems Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, August 1, 2004 TALLAHASSEE - Well before they abruptly discarded it, Florida election officials knew they had significant problems with a database of felons they planned to use in removing voters from the rolls. Just a week before they directed local election chiefs to begin purging ineligible voters from the list of 48,000 convicted felons, state officials documented two years of failures and breakdowns with the $2.7 million contract with database vendor Accenture. | ||||||
Electionsofficial defends contract Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 30, 2004 In an October 2001 meeting with lawmakers, Florida's top elections official said he had no choice but to hire a private company to build Florida's Central Voter Database. The Florida Association of Court Clerks, a nonprofit organization that lawmakers wanted to handle the project, demanded too much money, he said. But former elections chief Clay Roberts didn't tell lawmakers that the clerks association had agreed to do the job for exactly the price he wanted. | ||||||
State senator seeking people on felon list to ensure they can vote Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 30, 2004 State Sen. M. Mandy Dawson has invited 14,000 Broward and Palm Beach County residents whose names appear on the state's suspected felon list to meet with her today and Saturday to make sure they can vote in upcoming elections. | ||||||
Blacks facing unfair obstacles Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 30, 2004 For black and brown voters in Florida, participation in our democracy must seem like a game of high-stakes roulette in which the state keeps stacking the odds against them. In the latest twist, Florida reacted to a state court ruling which required it to help individuals who have completed their sentences to navigate the process to restore their voting rights by complicating that process. The state eliminated a form that former offenders are to mail to the Office of Executive Clemency in Tallahassee to initiate the restoration process. Now individuals must wait for notification from the state that they have not qualified for automatic restoration of right before they can contact the clemency office to request a hearing. | ||||||
Printing holdup delays advance voting for runoff Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 30, 2004 Area voters turned out in record numbers for advance voting in the July 20 primary and Susan Rooks of the Laurens County Registrar’s Office expects a large crowd for the August 10 runoff as well. However, early voters won’t be able to cast a vote until midweek next week due to a printing holdup caused by a longer than usual certification period in the Secretary of State’s Office. | ||||||
Restoring felons' voting rights a heated election-year issue in Fla. Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, July 28, 2004 MIAMI - (KRT) - Debbie Hardy admits she has made some big mistakes. She got hooked on drugs, had nine children out of wedlock and lost custody of them, and she spent six months in jail on a felony charge after getting into a fight with her boyfriend. | ||||||
Michael Moore to tackle voting rights issues in Florida Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, July 28, 2004 BOSTON - Coming soon to Florida: Filmmaker Michael Moore. Moore, the director of "Fahrenheit 9/11," said Wednesday he would make stops throughout Florida in October to focus attention on voting rights issues and try to prevent a repeat of the 2000 election debacle. | ||||||
Fear of Fraud Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, July 27, 2004 It's election night, and early returns suggest trouble for the incumbent. Then, mysteriously, the vote count stops and observers from the challenger's campaign see employees of a voting-machine company, one wearing a badge that identifies him as a county official, typing instructions at computers with access to the vote-tabulating software. | ||||||
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