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Handheld gadget lets precinct verify voters immediately at poll Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, July 5, 2004 David Ellis saw a need, and he pounced. Election officials' workloads had increased with new laws passed in the past decade, and most corporations had turned their attention to supplying 'big ticket' items, such as voting machines, he said. | ||||||
Foes Of Public Voter List Say Privacy May Be At Risk Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, July 4, 2004 TAMPA - The court decision making public a list of voters with possible felony records affects not just that list, officials said Friday, but all voter registration records kept by the state in Tallahassee. | ||||||
Counties Pressed To Verify Felon List Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, July 4, 2004 TALLAHASSEE - State elections officials promised Friday that a potentially error-ridden list of 47,763 suspected felons ineligible to vote will be thoroughly investigated before anyone is booted from the rolls. | ||||||
Election fairness begets voter confidence Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, July 4, 2004 If newspaper reporters can cull felons' names that are wrongly listed as ineligible to vote in official state data,why can't Florida's elections officials? After all, they're trained to ensure the accuracy and fairness of our elections. | ||||||
Post-2000 task force set yardstick for reform Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, July 4, 2004 Is Florida ready for the Aug. 31 primary and Nov. 2 general elections? Will there be a repeat of the disastrous 2000 presidential election or the botched first primary election of 2002? While the answers to these questions may provoke bitter partisan exchange, fortunately there is a yardstick by which Floridians can measure how Florida's electoral system has changed, or failed to change, over the last four years. | ||||||
Questions over felon 'purge list' threaten Bush Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, July 4, 2004 TALLAHASSEE - As thousands of Floridians learn that a state list could wrongly bar them from voting, Democrats have found a rallying point for the November elections and proof, they say, of long-held suspicions that Gov. Jeb Bush's elections machinery is rigged against them. More than 2,100 people, many of them black Democrats, remain on the list of potentially ineligible ex-con voters despite winning clemency and the right to vote after their crimes, The Herald reported Friday. | ||||||
Jasper election commissioner's future in doubt Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, July 4, 2004 After a wild month of election miscues culminating in last week's reshuffling of the Jasper County voter registration office, Election Commissioner Jake Rawls received a rude awakening in his mailbox Saturday. | ||||||
Dems ask U.N. to aid U.S. vote Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, July 3, 2004 U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona and 11 other Democrats in Congress on Friday asked the United Nations to watch for "questionable practices" in this year's U.S. presidential election. | ||||||
Voter purge list?s errors spur outcry Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, July 3, 2004 A San Carlos Park man’s name appears on a Florida Division of Elections list of more than 47,000 voters who are suspected of being felons, dead or doubly registered. The list was sent to county elections supervisors, who are expected to use it to determine who should be removed from the voting rolls before this year’s election. | ||||||
Felon voting rights face a new hurdle Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, July 3, 2004 More than 1,600 Florida felons whose right to vote was legally restored remain on a state list of potentially ineligible voters because they have yet to re-register to vote, a hurdle that critics say is sure to create confusion as the national election looms. | ||||||
Potential felon voter list includes dead, pardoned Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, July 3, 2004 The dead and the pardoned are among the 47,763 potential felons whom the state wants purged from Florida's voting rolls. The list, made public Thursday by the state Division of Elections and posted on the Web by activists, is the state's latest attempt to keep ineligible voters from the polls. | ||||||
Felons list errs, some argue Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, July 3, 2004 NEW PORT RICHEY - Charles A. Bodessa has broken into pay phones, assaulted a police officer and tried to burn his wife's car. Bodessa, 51, is a felon. He also is a dedicated voter. | ||||||
A little shame now saves GOP in long run Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, July 3, 2004 Gov. Jeb Bush should write a thank-you note to Leon Circuit Judge Nikki Clark, but it's not likely he will think of that. The judge just saved him from himself. For several months Secretary of State Glenda Hood, a Bush appointee, has been refusing to cough up a list of 47,000 suspected felons who are registered to vote. Despite pleas from virtually all of the state's news media as well as CNN, Hood declared the list off-limits. | ||||||
State officials defend list of felon voters Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, July 3, 2004 TALLAHASSEE State elections officials Friday angrily defended the integrity of their list of nearly 48,000 "potential felons" who could be purged from the voting rolls amid mounting evidence that thousands of names were put on the list by mistake. | ||||||
Many Floridians surprised, upset by mistakes on felons list Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, July 3, 2004 Many Floridians were shocked to find their name on a state list of nearly 48,000 felons potentially ineligible to vote, even though they had a clean criminal record or had received clemency. "Weird," William Miller, 50, of Tampa said Friday. "I've never been arrested for felonies." | ||||||
Thousands of eligible voters are on felon list Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 2, 2004 More than 2,100 Florida voters many of them black Democrats could be wrongly barred from voting in November because Tallahassee elections officials included them on a list of felons potentially ineligible to vote, a Herald investigation has found. | ||||||
Election Protection Program Gives Florida Voters a Way to Check Potential Felon Match List, Prevent Wrongful Disenfranchisement Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 2, 2004 People For the American Way Foundation (PFAWF) announced this morning that it is giving Florida voters the opportunity to search the list of 47,000 “potential felon matches” the state claims may be purged from the voter rolls. The list is now a public document available as a result of the July 1st decision by Leon County Circuit Court in CNN v. Florida Department of State. Following the ruling, PFAWF obtained a copy to allow people to see if their name is on the list and to take the necessary steps to ensure their right to vote if their name does not belong there. | ||||||
State releases names of 'potential felons' on voter purge list Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 2, 2004 Florida election officials in Tallahassee on Thursday released the names of more than 47,000 "potential felons" who could be purged from voter rolls, but some of those included immediately protested they were listed by mistake and that they've been voting for years. | ||||||
Report: Felon voting list includes thousands of eligible voters Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 2, 2004 More than 2,100 Floridians who had their voting rights restored were included on a list of felons potentially ineligible to vote, a newspaper reported Friday. The names were on a Florida Division of Elections list of more than 47,000 people who may be felons that appear to match the names of registered voters. The list was sent to county elections supervisors, who are expected to determine just who should be removed from the rolls. | ||||||
East Bay Volunteers Trek To Florida to Ensure Fair Vote Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 2, 2004 Nothing can stop a group of determined Berkeley volunteers this summer, not even engine failure, monsoon season, or long hours in the hot, humid, sun. Not when the election is on the line. | ||||||
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