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Officials debate Florida's preparation Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, July 10, 2004 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - (KRT) - Glenda Hood's main mission when she became Florida's secretary of state last year was to take control of a flawed election system that became a national joke in the 2000 presidential race. The former Orlando mayor was charged with fixing the mess and preparing Florida for Election Day 2004. | ||||||
State scraps controversial voting list of potential felons Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, July 10, 2004 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida elections officials said Saturday a list of people believed to be convicted felons would not be used to bar them from voting this year. The decision was made after it was reported that the list contained few people identified as Hispanics because of a flaw in how it was compiled. Of the nearly 48,000 people on the list created by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, only 61 were classified as Hispanics. | ||||||
Florida voters begin to contest removal from election rolls Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, July 10, 2004 MIAMI - Daren Jones lost his right to vote with a guilty plea to a federal drug charge six years ago. After he was turned away from his precinct in the 2000 presidential election, he asked the state to restore his civil rights. | ||||||
Military ballots get special handling Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 9, 2004 The Bush administration is giving special status to ballots cast overseas by U.S. military personnel. The move aims to avoid one of the most controversial aspects of the 2000 presidential vote recount in Florida and is important politically because military votes historically favor Republican candidates. | ||||||
Lawmakers ask U.N. to monitor elections Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 9, 2004 Thirteen members of the U.S. House of Representatives asked the United Nations on Thursday to do something in the United States that the international body usually does only in fledgling or war-ravaged countries: monitor its presidential elections. | ||||||
Our position: County elections supervisors have work to do to make sure the vote is fair. Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 9, 2004 As politicians hit the campaign trail with election-year vigor, Americans have good reason to wonder whether Florida is destined to repeat the balloting debacle that marred the 2000 presidential contest. | ||||||
Voter Purge Ignores Many Hispanic Felons Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 8, 2004 Thousands of felons could get to vote this November for one reason: They're Hispanic. A data quirk in the state's controversial effort to purge convicted felons from the voter rolls appears to have excluded Hispanics in greater numbers than other, more easily-defined races. | ||||||
Florida says it won't strip 2,500 ex-felons of voting rights Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 8, 2004 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. The Florida Division of Elections has done an about-face and said it will allow to vote almost 2,500 former felons whose restored voting rights had been threated with revocation. | ||||||
Ghosts of 2000 election haunt presidential campaign Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 8, 2004 TALLAHASSEE Dimpled chads are long gone. So are former Secretary of State Katherine Harris and nail-biting Supreme Court fights. But as Florida voters get ready this November to again play a key role in electing the president, ghosts of the disputed 2000 election are re-emerging. | ||||||
Members of Congress ask U.N. to monitor November elections Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 8, 2004 WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Haiti. Indonesia. Sierra Leone. They're among the hot spots where international observers have battled violence, corruption and chaos in an attempt to ensure fair and free elections. | ||||||
2,465 on felons list can vote, secretary of state says Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 8, 2004 TALLAHASSEE Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood has reversed herself regarding a list of potentially ineligible voters, saying that nearly 2,500 people on the 47,000-name list should be able to vote. | ||||||
The Web: Online voting an election away Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 CHICAGO, July 7 (UPI) Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., announced his pick for the Democratic Party's vice presidential nomination Tuesday on the Internet, but how long will it be before voters actually get to choose the president and the vice president with a few keystrokes online? Sooner than many have predicted perhaps within four to eight years. | ||||||
Governor should do more to restore ex-felons' rights Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 In his June 28 letter, Gov. Bush states that 'Florida isn't withholding civil rights from ex-felons.' Yet more than 600,000 Floridians have lost the right to vote because of a past felony conviction even though they have served their time. | ||||||
First glitch in election lists wrong first name for candidate Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 The first glitch in Georgia's upcoming July 20 election has surfaced in Laurens County, where absentee ballots were printed with the wrong first name for a candidate in the nonpartisan Court of Appeals race. | ||||||
State won't try to force 48,000 voters off rolls Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 TALLAHASSEE - Florida's top election officials conceded Tuesday that they will take no legal action to force the state's 67 election supervisors to remove nearly 48,000 voters who have been identified by the state as potentially ineligible to vote. | ||||||
Hood concedes voter count has glitches Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 TALLAHASSEE Secretary of State Glenda Hood sought Tuesday to ease concerns that thousands of voters identified as "potential felons" could be barred from voting this year, but she conceded there are unexplained glitches in a list that is drawing legal fire from civil-rights groups. | ||||||
Hood denies voter purge list has errors Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 In the face of national publicity over a list of possible felons who could lose the right to vote, Secretary of State Glenda Hood on Tuesday reiterated the steps being taken to ensure no one is struck from the voter rolls in error. Hood denies that the list has errors, instead emphasizing that compiling the list of 47,763 names is only the first step in the process. | ||||||
Clemency files review seeks errors Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, July 7, 2004 TALLAHASSEE - As controversy swirls around a list of potential felons who might be barred from voting, Florida officials are reviewing thousands of old clemency files to determine whether some voters were mistakenly disenfranchised. | ||||||
Openness that counts Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, July 6, 2004 The world didn't end after a Tallahassee judge forced state elections officials to make public nearly 48,000 potential felons who could be eliminated from voter rolls. | ||||||
A Wine Region's Future Is Centered on 2 Rivals Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, July 5, 2004 These are uncertain times in California's Napa County, a pastoral region of fertile hills that produces some of the world's best cabernet and, recently, accusations of voting fraud. | ||||||
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