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If mailing address 'none,' can homeless still vote? Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, June 23, 2004 If you're homeless and live in Tennessee, you don't need a mailing address to register to vote, according to an opinion by the Metro Law Department. But a Republican Davidson County election commissioner disagrees and is calling for an inquiry into alleged problems with the county's voting rolls. | ||||||
Voting poll purge set to start in July mailing Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, June 23, 2004 CROWN POINT — To brush up its tarnished image, Lake County Election Board voted on a strategy to purge the bloated voter rolls and a way to end embarrassing episodes like votes cast from the U.S. Steel Yard. | ||||||
Election rolls riddled with errors, commissioner says Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, June 22, 2004 The county's voter database is a 'ticking time bomb' full of tens of thousands of inaccurate entries that could lead to legal challenges in a close race, a Davidson County election commissioner said yesterday. | ||||||
Dade ballot request denied Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Tuesday, June 22, 2004 Miami-Dade County initiated legal proceedings Tuesday against the state's Division of Elections after the state said numbers can't be placed next to ballot questions and candidates during the Aug. 31 mayoral elections. | ||||||
Jesse Jackson says purging felons from voter rolls is typical South disenfranchisement tactic Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, June 21, 2004 Harkening back to the 1960s when Southern states used poll taxes and intimidation to shut blacks out of elections, Rev. Jesse Jackson on Monday accused Florida Gov. Jeb Bush of engaging in 'disenfranchisement schemes' in asking counties to purge felons from voter rolls. | ||||||
This Time, Get It Right Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, June 21, 2004 Ronald Reagan's death led warring political camps to call a temporary truce. Everyone seemed to agree that politics back in Reagan's era weren't quite as much of a blood sport and that a return to some civility and cooperation across party lines would be welcome. | ||||||
Michael Peltier: Voting issues again put Florida in spotlight Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Monday, June 21, 2004 The infamously quotable Yogi Berra likely did not have Florida's election system in mind when he coined the phrase now inseparable with things that happen over and over again. But the baseball linguist's axiom could well describe the predicament Florida election officials face as they try to regain the trust of a nation preparing for another nail-biter of a presidential election now less than five months away. | ||||||
State Democrats deny Jasper protest appeal Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Sunday, June 20, 2004 State Democratic Party Executive Committee members on Saturday turned down Jasper County Councilwoman Barbara Clark's appeal of the local party's decision not to schedule a new election. | ||||||
Feds to monitor Utah's 3rd District balloting Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, June 19, 2004 Responding to a perceived threat to intimidate voters by a group seeking a crackdown on immigration, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday it will send attorneys to monitor Tuesday's primary election in Utah's 3rd Congressional District. The Justice Department is responding to ProjectUSA Director Craig Nelsen's statements Thursday that his group might challenge the right of some foreign-born residents to vote. | ||||||
1.9 million black votes didn't count Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Saturday, June 19, 2004 In the 2000 presidential election, 1.9 million Americans cast ballots that no one counted. "Spoiled votes" is the technical term. The pile of ballots left to rot has a distinctly dark hue: About 1 million of them half of the rejected ballots were cast by African Americans although black voters make up only 12 percent of the electorate. | ||||||
Manatee sorts out 582 names Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, June 18, 2004 In Manatee County, supervisor of elections Bob Sweat had not heard about Gov. Jeb Bush's announcement until he was contacted by a reporter. | ||||||
Election challenge rejected Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, June 18, 2004 LANCASTER - Carroll Huffman lost his bid Thursday to have the results of last week's Lancaster County Council District 5 primary thrown out. | ||||||
Clemency board restores rights to felons Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, June 18, 2004 TALLAHASSEE ? Civil rights were restored to 20,861 felons in Florida in the past year, 41 percent more than the year before. About 11,000 of those were granted to felons released between 1992 and 2001 and considered as a result of a lawsuit. | ||||||
Defend voters' rights Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Friday, June 18, 2004 Better open your wallet. Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood is hitting taxpayers with a bill of at least $125,000 for lawyers to keep citizens from checking the lists of people to be purged from voter rolls. In other words, she's making you pay lawyers to fight against your own right to see records that your own money paid for. | ||||||
Let Ex-Felons Vote Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, June 17, 2004 FOUR YEARS AGO, the state of Florida where ex-felons are automatically barred from voting mistakenly designated an untold number of its residents as ineligible to vote in what proved to be a deadlocked presidential election. This year the state's list of potentially ineligible voters again appears to be seriously flawed, giving rise to the alarming possibility of another close election marred by avoidable errors. With a primary 11 weeks away, the state's incompetence in preparing its voter rolls puts a needless burden on local officials to correct errors something there is no guarantee they will actually be able to do. | ||||||
GOP seems blind to appearances on voting issues Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, June 17, 2004 You know that edgy, finely honed sensitivity you feel after an ugly argument with your spouse? That icily polite interregnum that progresses from glum silence to a period of extra accommodation and anticipation, as you try to avoid anything that might re-ignite the fight? | ||||||
Florida voter rolls could swell with felons who have rights restored Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Thursday, June 17, 2004 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - (KRT) - More than 20,000 felons could join Florida's voter rolls in time for the November election because they've had their civil rights restored over the past year, Gov. Jeb Bush said Thursday. That possible influx of voters is sure to add even more political uncertainty to Florida, already one of the nation's fiercest presidential battlegrounds. The governor's brother, President Bush, is working feverishly to improve on his 537-vote victory here from four years ago. | ||||||
Calls for Leash on Voter Data Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, June 16, 2004 California privacy task force said on Tuesday that the state should tell voters that it is selling voter registration information to political parties and database marketers, and that the state should take steps to safeguard how private companies and organizations use the information. The report, commissioned by Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, is the result of a year-long examination into the collection, sale and use of voter registration data. | ||||||
Elections Establishment still missing message Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, June 16, 2004 The hope was that last week's conference of elections supervisors in Key West would show that the state has corrected all the problems that created the 2000 fiasco. Instead, the meeting raised more concerns and more issues. | ||||||
Firing up local voters Story Here Archive | ||||||
| Published:Wednesday, June 16, 2004 The one-time gang member and convicted felon Judge Greg Mathis addressed a packed house Tuesday night about the importance of voting in the fall elections. Mathis is best known for his television court show "Judge Mathis." His visit to Tallahassee was part of the local chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Get Out The Vote Rally at Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. | ||||||
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