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Company: State knew of problems with felons list since 1998 Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, July 20, 2004 SARASOTA, Fla. - State election officials have known since at least 1998 that using race on a recently scrapped suspected felons list could mean Hispanics wouldn't be included in the efforts to clear convicted felons from voter rolls, according to a company that helped create the list. | ||||||
More Florida Ballot Woes On Tap? Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, July 20, 2004 Four years after the Florida vote-counting fiasco, concerns over the reliability of ballots in the Sunshine State remain. Though improvements have been made, with less than four months until the state's 27 electoral votes go up for grabs, the lack of a paper trail has belied confidence in new electronic voting equipment. | ||||||
Bill introduced to make vote-result challenge easier Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, July 20, 2004 WASHINGTON - (KRT) - With the blessing of movie director Michael Moore, three U.S. House members from Florida introduced a bill on Tuesday that would make it easier for Congress to challenge the official certification of presidential election results. | ||||||
What Happens In The Event Of A Terror Attack On The 2004 Presidential Elections? Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, July 19, 2004 If the Bush Administration's intelligence can be believed, the 2004 presidential election, or the related democratic processes associated with the election, have been targeted by terrorists. Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge has repeatedly said, "Al Qeada is moving forward with plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States aimed to disrupt our democratic process." | ||||||
Rehabbed felons seek right to vote Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, July 19, 2004 MIAMI 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 | ||||||
Kerry Building Legal Network for Vote Fights Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, July 18, 2004 Mindful of the election problems in Florida four years ago, aides to Senator John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, say his campaign is putting together a far more intricate set of legal safeguards than any presidential candidate before him to monitor the election. | ||||||
Civil Rights Board Wants Inquiry on Florida Voter-Purge List Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 16, 2004 WASHINGTON, July 15 - Members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights called on the Justice Department on Thursday to investigate possible voting-rights violations in Florida's troubled effort to purge felons from its voter registration lists. At a hearing on the state's effort to use a list of 48,000 suspected felons to trim voter rolls, the civil rights commission's chairman, Mary Frances Berry, also urged the newly created federal Election Assistance Commission, which is distributing millions of dollars to the states for voting improvements, to consider withholding Florida's share. | ||||||
More home cooking in Florida Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 16, 2004 Florida, where George Bush either won or quite arguably stole the presidency four years ago, is expected to be a battleground state again this year; its 27 electoral votes may be the key to a closely contested election. The president continues to enjoy home field advantage: His brother, Jeb Bush, is still the governor and gets to appoint the secretary of state, Glenda E. Hood, who will count the votes. Recent events in Florida are cause for grave concern that integrity of the vote count may again be an issue. | ||||||
Poll workers' chief recalls '02 chaos Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 16, 2004 Testimony in Miriam Oliphant's Florida Senate trial Thursday centered on the chaotic September 2002 primary election and a budget crisis while she was Broward elections supervisor. Lawyers for Gov. Jeb Bush rested their Broward County phase of the case against Oliphant after three hours of testimony by Pat Nesbit, the head of poll workers. They expect to call more witnesses next week when the trial moves to Tallahassee. | ||||||
Voter list may get federal inquiry Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 16, 2004 WASHINGTON - The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said Thursday it will ask the Department of Justice to investigate whether Florida's use of a flawed database to remove felons from the voter rolls was a deliberate attempt to block some voters from casting ballots. Commissioners, who heard Thursday from the architects of the database as well as its critics, want to know whether the overwhelmingly Democratic and black voters on the list were targeted for removal. | ||||||
Election Troubles Already Descending on Florida Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 15, 2004 MIAMI, July 14 - Three years after Gov. Jeb Bush announced a new voting system that he called "a model for the rest of the nation," Florida is grappling with some of the same problems that threw the 2000 presidential election into chaos, as well as new ones that critics say could cause even more confusion this November. | ||||||
Democrats seek election investigation Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 15, 2004 The Jasper County Democratic Executive Committee will ask the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division to "investigate the entire June 8 election," the committee's chairman said Wednesday. | ||||||
Palast To Testify At US Civil Rights Commission Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 15, 2004 MACON,GA.-The US Civil Rights Commission has asked Greg Palast to testify before a special commission hearing Thursday, July 15th at 11am, to discuss his continuing investigative reports for BBC Television on Florida and other states' cleansing of Black voters from voter rolls. Palast's reports provide the basis for the story on the vote fix in Florida featured in Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11." | ||||||
Civil Rights Commission Investigates Continuing Voter Disenfranchisement and Election Chaos in Florida Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 15, 2004 Washington - People For the American Way Foundation (PFAWF) president Ralph G. Neas Thursday testified on the continuing disarray in preparation for the elections in Florida, and detailed a nationwide, nonpartisan coalition program to help protect voter rights: Election Protection. | ||||||
Appeals court says state should help felons regain civil rights Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 15, 2004 TALLAHASSEE · In another voting-related setback for Gov. Jeb Bush's administration, an appeals court ruled Wednesday that state officials are failing to help thousands of newly released felons get their civil rights restored. | ||||||
1,249 felons waiting to vote Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 15, 2004 As many as 1,249 Floridians convicted of crimes in other states could be mistakenly barred from voting in November, despite a 2-year-old agreement by Florida election officials that was meant to return them to the rolls. The reason: lost paperwork and slow-moving bureaucracies. | ||||||
Felons get new boost on vote Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 15, 2004 ALLAHASSEE - In another blow to Florida's lawsuit-plagued voting system, an appeals court ruled Wednesday that state prison officials must follow a law requiring them to provide felons with the necessary forms and assistance to get their voting rights restored. | ||||||
Organizations mobilize amid fears of voting fraud Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 15, 2004 Along with endless polls, campaign swings by presidential candidates and a lot of insulting political ads, our status as a potential swing state could bring something else to Colorado this election year: voting fraud. | ||||||
Legal eagles gear up for Nov. 2 Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 15, 2004 WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Polling places across the country will be flooded with thousands of partisan lawyers on Election Day as Republicans and Democrats try to avert a replay of the 2000 election. That year chaos reigned in Florida amid ballot confusion and Democratic accusations of voter intimidation. In Missouri, a St. Louis judge kept polls open beyond closing time, prompting Republican charges of fraud. | ||||||
Commission to seek Justice Dept.'s help in Florida voting matter Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 15, 2004 WASHINGTON - (KRT) - The chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said Thursday she intends to send a letter asking the Justice Department to look into whether the state of Florida broke the law in the way it put together the controversial, and now discarded, potential felon voter list. | ||||||
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