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Secretary of state plans to fix problems Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, July 27, 2004 Secretary of State Chris Nelson said he plans to fix problems voters experienced in the June 1 special election in time for the November general election. Changes in state election law require voters to present a photo ID when they go to the polls or sign an affidavit swearing they are who they claim to be. In some precincts that law was incorrectly interpreted and people were not allowed to vote if they had no identification. Congress has said election workers can no longer send people away from the polling place. | ||||||
Second probe ordered of felon list barring vote Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, July 24, 2004 Just weeks after defending both the quality and secrecy of a list of suspected felons to be purged from Florida voting lists, the state's elections office is now scrambling to explain why the list was so flawed that it had to be scrapped. | ||||||
All eyes on Florida Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, July 24, 2004 What is it like to be a supervisor of elections in Florida nowadays? Ask Kay Clem, elections chief in Indian River County and past president of the state supervisors association. | ||||||
Ex-felons face new twist in voting Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 23, 2004 Days after a Florida appeals court demanded that the state provide more help to felons who want their right to vote restored, Gov. Jeb Bush introduced a new policy that civil rights advocates say circumvents the will of the court and threatens to exclude tens of thousands of potential voters. | ||||||
PFAW Foundation Calls on Attorney General Ashcroft to Investigate Florida Purge Practices Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 23, 2004 The Honorable John Ashcroft Attorney General of the United States U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 Dear Attorney General Ashcroft: | ||||||
Voters in the dark about new primary Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 23, 2004 John Gideon, representing the nonpartisan voter watchdog group VotersUnite.org, said he was concerned about plans to shade parts of the ballot red for Democrats, green for Republicans and blue for Libertarians. | ||||||
Boost confidence Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 23, 2004 Secretary of State Glenda Hood has five weeks to convince Floridians that all is well with upcoming elections. And that is no small challenge, due in large part to the former Orlando mayor's stubborn resistance to hear out her critics. | ||||||
4 years later, new election controversies dog Florida Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 22, 2004 COCOA BEACH, Fla. — After the debacle of the 2000 presidential election, Florida's top politicians and elections officials vowed it would never happen again. They rammed through sweeping changes in election laws and poured more than $130 million into purchasing new voting machines, retraining poll workers and designing voter-education drives. | ||||||
A bad sign for voters Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 22, 2004 Before entering the polling place in some Florida counties, voters have been confronted by a sign that reads: "Photo and Signature Identification Required." The implication is that they won't be able to vote if they don't have a driver's license or similar identification card, but that is not a full explanation of the law. In fact, registered voters without the proper ID are able to sign a statement affirming their identity and still cast a ballot. | ||||||
Secretary of State orders review of state voting list Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 22, 2004 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Secretary of State Glenda Hood on Thursday ordered a review of the entire database used to ensure ineligible people are removed from voting rolls, following criticism over a flawed list of potential felons given to elections supervisors. | ||||||
Reviewed ordered of Fla. voting database Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 22, 2004 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Florida's top elections official Thursday ordered a review of the state's voter database after a list used by county officials to remove felons from voting rolls came under heavy criticism. | ||||||
SOUND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES RECOMMENDED FOR 2004 Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 22, 2004 WASHINGTON, DC- The League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS) today issued a new report to help safeguard the votes of all Americans in the 2004 election. Helping America Vote: Safeguarding the Vote outlines a set of recommended operational and management practices for state and local election officials to enhance voting system security, protect eligible voters and ensure that valid votes are counted. | ||||||
Legal firm, state at odds over chartered jet expense Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 22, 2004 TALLAHASSEE A politically connected Miami law firm wants Florida taxpayers to pick up a $5,000-plus tab for its chairman's private jet ride to Tallahassee. | ||||||
Replacing Hood vital first step in voter-list fiasco Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 22, 2004 ``Unintentional and unforeseen.' Those were the words Glenda Hood Jeb Bush's handpicked secretary of state used to describe the massive mistakes her office made in developing a list of more than 47,000 convicted felons who were in jeopardy of having their voting rights stripped away from them in the upcoming election. | ||||||
Hood orders review of entire voter database to ensure ineligible people are removed Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 22, 2004 TALLAHASSEE Secretary of State Glenda Hood on Thursday ordered a review of the entire database used to ensure ineligible people are removed from voting rolls, in the face of continuing criticism about a faulty list of potential felons given to elections supervisors. | ||||||
Voters Who Swap Their Check for Cash Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, July 21, 2004 Michael O'Connor Clarke, a British subject who lives in Canada, will be voting for John Kerry in the presidential election in November. So will Sarah Redman, an Australian citizen and half of a lesbian couple looking to move to the United States but unable to under current immigration laws. And so will Scott Steahl, a sophomore at the University of California at San Diego. Steahl became eligible to vote two years ago, and by the grace of vote-exchanging, he'll do so twice in the fall. | ||||||
Felon voting rights trial is delayed Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, July 21, 2004 A federal appeals court on Tuesday delayed indefinitely a long-awaited Miami trial to decide whether more than 600,000 former felons in Florida could have their voting rights automatically restored. | ||||||
Bush appoints a mediator in voter-roll dispute Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, July 21, 2004 TALLAHASSEE · Gov. Jeb Bush appointed a mediator Tuesday to resolve disputes between Florida elections officials and civil-justice lawyers over maintaining voter rolls. | ||||||
State knew about flaws in felon list Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, July 21, 2004 SARASOTA - State election officials knew since at least 1998 that a recently scrapped felons list designed to clear convicted felons from voter rolls would have a glitch and exclude Hispanics, according to a company that helped create the list. | ||||||
Florida vote bears watching Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, July 20, 2004 Florida and little brother Gov. Jeb Bush became notorious in 2000 when the state's highest election official, Katherine Harris, also served as the George W. Bush state campaign co-chair and pledged to deliver the state to George. And so she did, supervising a purge of black voters, intimidation on Election Day, malfunctioning machines, butterfly ballots, and finally suppression of the recount altogether with the aid of the five-person Republican majority on the Supreme Court. | ||||||
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