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Delay could impact election Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, July 2, 2004 Before the first vote is cast, the July 20 primary election is already experiencing problems. Printing problems have delayed and reduced the number of days for absentee voting in Clayton County and could create more problems. | ||||||
Judge: State must open voter 'purge' list Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A Leon County judge ruled unconstitutional a state law restricting access to a list of 47,000 suspected felons to be purged from voter rolls. "The Division of Elections is hereby ordered to immediately open the suspected felons list for public inspection and permit the plaintiff and intervenors to copy and photograph the list," wrote Circuit Judge Nikki Ann Clark in her order. | ||||||
Judge: Law restricting access to voter rolls unconstitutional Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 A Leon County judge ruled unconstitutional a state law restricting access to a list of 47,000 suspected felons to be purged from voter rolls. The Division of Elections is hereby ordered to immediately open the suspected felons list for public inspection and permit the plaintiff and intervenors to copy and photograph the list,” wrote Circuit Judge Nikki Ann Clark in her order. | ||||||
Lessons unlearned Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 Because of the voter purge fiasco in the 2000 election, one would think that the Florida Division of Elections would be bending over backward to get it right for the 2004 election. Alas, that assumption would be wrong. | ||||||
Florida; Still denying black voters rights Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 Have we learned nothing from the 2000 Presidential Election? Is it possible that the state of Florida is more interested in disenfranchising voters than safeguarding the right to vote? Are Florida officials determined to commit, in plain sight, five months before the election, another alleged felon game? | ||||||
Former head of GOP consulting group pleads guilty to jamming Democratic phone lines Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 CONCORD, N.H. (AP) The former head of a Republican consulting group has pleaded guilty to jamming Democratic telephone lines in several New Hampshire cities during the 2002 general election. Allen Raymond, former president of the Alexandria, Va.-based GOP Marketplace LLC, waived indictment and pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Concord on Wednesday. Judge Joseph A. DiClerico Jr. released Raymond on his own recognizance pending sentencing in November. | ||||||
Florida Must Release List of Ineligible Voters Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida must release a list of suspected felons it wants purged from voter registration rolls so the names can be checked to avoid errors that wrongly disenfranchised voters in the state's disputed 2000 election, a state judge ruled on Thursday. | ||||||
Florida Told to Open Voter List Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, July 1, 2004 ORLANDO A Florida Circuit Court judge said Thursday that a list of felons to be purged from Florida's voter rolls must be made available to anybody that wants a copy, handing a victory to media organizations that had sought copies from the state but were refused. The ruling by Judge Nikki Clark came in a lawsuit filed by CNN in May. The news network said it wanted the list in order to verify its accuracy and to prevent the disenfranchisement of thousands of voters. Critics suspect many legitimate voters were not allowed to vote in the 2000 presidential election because of inaccuracies in these lists. | ||||||
Lawyers: Media needs names Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, June 30, 2004 In final arguments in a lawsuit against the state, CNN attorneys claim no meaningful inspection of a list of potential felons can be conducted unless a list is provided to media outlets. The media’s historic role as a watchdog over government, including the accuracy of elections, is frustrated by the inability to extract information from or copy that list,” the final argument from CNN reads. | ||||||
New fault in Florida's felons list pointed out Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, June 29, 2004 An advocacy group hurled new criticism Monday at Florida's list of 47,000 voters who could be disqualified because they have been identified as potential felons. | ||||||
Judge takes requests under advisement Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, June 29, 2004 WORCESTER As an attorney for Robert Finnegan yesterday asked a judge to schedule a new man election, saying Uxbridge's voting procedures are heavily flawed, the town asked for a new vote in two other races. | ||||||
Restrictions could imperil fair election Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, June 29, 2004 T he most important campaign question this fall is whether Americans will conclude that we can run an honest and fair election. There are many reasons to worry, especially in states with appreciable minority populations. | ||||||
Who's on the list? Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, June 27, 2004 Sam Heyward has voted in almost every election for the past decade or so. But according to the Florida Division of Elections, he's a possible felon who should be struck from the voter rolls. Heyward appears on an infamous list - a list of 47,687 that is drawing national attention after possibly thousands of eligible voters like him were turned away from the polls in the election that gave George W. Bush the presidency. | ||||||
Poll: Voters want their records kept private Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, June 25, 2004 Florida voters overwhelmingly oppose the opening of voter-registration records, according to a poll released Thursday. But Leon County Elections Supervisor Ion Sancho said the pollsters asked the question wrong. | ||||||
2 hired to check felon purge list Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, June 25, 2004 Broward County has so many potential felons on its voter rolls that Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes has hired two new employees to tackle the 6,500-person list issued last month by the state. | ||||||
White House invite leads to voting critique Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, June 25, 2004 Well, it's official. Ion Sancho is now "Mr. Leon County Elections." And he's not just a legend in his own mind. The elections official has been no shrinking violet when it comes to opining for the national media. Now he gets an even higher endorsement - that of President George W. Bush. | ||||||
Voting official seeks process for canceling Election Day over terrorism Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, June 25, 2004 WASHINGTON The government needs to establish guidelines for canceling or rescheduling elections if terrorists strike the United States again, says the chairman of a new federal voting commission. Such guidelines do not currently exist, said DeForest B. Soaries, head of the voting panel. | ||||||
State won?t release list Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, June 24, 2004 Officials from the Florida Department of State say releasing copies of a list of possible felons is not required by state law, and the state constitution does not guarantee a copy of public records so long as they are made available. | ||||||
State to get federal help for elections Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, June 23, 2004 The computer glitches troubling the touch-screen voting machines in Miami-Dade, Broward and other counties won't have an effect on Florida receiving $47 million in federal money to bring the state into compliance with federal voting reforms | ||||||
Martin Democrats committee: If you doubt machines, vote absentee Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, June 23, 2004 MARTIN COUNTY — Vote while you cook. Vote during a commercial. Or simply relax in shorts and a T-shirt as you fill out an absentee ballot on the back porch, free of election-day hassles. Vote early and at your leisure is the message the county Democrats Executive Committee intends to send local party members concerned about the lack of a hardcopy record of their individual vote while using electronic voting machines. | ||||||
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