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Elections observer will oversee changes Story Here Archive |
WASHINGTON - Paul DeGregorio began Election Day watching Bronx voters manipulate creaky, levered machines that had been around since Franklin Roosevelt was president. |
Survey: Few troops use new voting options Story Here Archive |
Jefferson City ? Secretary of State Matt Blunt touted fax and e-mail balloting as options to make voting more accessible to military members in combat, but a statewide survey shows just a few dozen people used those options in the November election. |
With election certified, debate over voting systems heats up Story Here Archive |
WASHINGTON ? While Congress this week officially certified President Bush as the winner of the 2004 election, effectively ending weeks of challenges in Ohio, the debate over how to fix the nation?s voting system has just begun. |
New standards for elections necessary Story Here Archive |
A few members of Congress challenged Ohio's electoral vote, a rare and mostly symbolic gesture that underscores the need for election reforms. |
Fla. consultant gathered absentee votes Story Here Archive |
ORLANDO, Fla. A campaign consultant said he was hired by several Florida politicians over the past seven years to gather absentee ballots during their elections, a violation of state law. |
Dems' challenge for good reasons Story Here Archive |
A fair amount of grumbling accompanied Congress' counting of the electoral vote on Thursday, once the Democrats chose to challenge the vote by the Ohio delegation. |
Ohio Election Problems Highlight Urgent Need for Reform Story Here Archive |
The Democrats' brief Congressional challenge to Ohio's electoral votes last week was met with howls of derision from Republican lawmakers. "They're still not over the 2000 election, let alone the 2004 election," said Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. |
Together, we moved three mountains Story Here Archive |
Together, grassroots/Internet activists have just moved three major American mountains. |
Voting by dead people isn't always a scam Story Here Archive |
Days after his wife of four decades died of liver cancer, Robert Holmgren came home to find her absentee ballot. He filled in Charlette Holmgren's intended votes for Dino Rossi and George W. Bush, forged her signature, and mailed her ballot along with his. |
Voting by dead people isn't always a scam Story Here Archive |
Days after his wife of four decades died of liver cancer, Robert Holmgren came home to find her absentee ballot. He filled in Charlette Holmgren's intended votes for Dino Rossi and George W. Bush, forged her signature, and mailed her ballot along with his. |
Election 2004: Stolen Or Lost Story Here Archive |
Many of us fear that the Ohio election was stolen because people?like talk show sleuths, blogger number-crunchers, forensic attorneys, crusading professors and partisan activists?keep telling us so. We don't even know most of these people, yet we gladly forward their e-mails and Web links, their pronouncements, analyses, essays and statistical exercises. While their credentials may not be that impressive, we listen to their conspiracy theories because?frightened by the direction our country has taken?we want to believe them. |
Election results open to question Story Here Archive |
Hudlicka lives in Blacksburg. Today, the Congress will meet in joint session to certify the presidential election. This has largely been a formality in years past. Not this year. |
Medical marijuana backers file voting suit Story Here Archive |
While the recount for Berkeley's medical marijuana initiative continues, the group that sponsored the measure has filed a lawsuit against the Alameda County Registrar of Voters. |
The Election's Last Gasp Story Here Archive |
Congressional Democrats staged an unusual protest yesterday when Senator Barbara Boxer of California and Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio objected to certifying the results of the 2004 election. Supporters of the defeated (and absent) John Kerry then spent two hours making speeches, most of which began with the declaration that George W. Bush had definitely won. |
Secretary of State Reed unveils election reform proposals Story Here Archive |
As two citizens filed the first challenges to the endlessly contested governor's election yesterday, Secretary of State Sam Reed proposed a package of reforms aimed at averting such election chaos in the future. |
Dead voted in governor's race Story Here Archive |
At least eight people who died well before the November general election were credited with voting in King County, raising new questions about the integrity of the vote total in the narrow governor's race, a Seattle Post-Intelligencer review has found. |
GOP expected to file suit over Gregoire's win Story Here Archive |
OLYMPIA ? The Republican court challenge to Christine Gregoire's election as governor, expected to be filed today, will center on mishandled provisional ballots in King County and lingering questions about why the county shows more votes counted than people voting on Nov. 2. |
Voting machines on way to Contra Costa Story Here Archive |
MARTINEZ - Contra Costa voters will find new equipment at the polls in March that county Clerk-Recorder Steve Weir says will produce faster election results and an instant error check. |
N.C. elections head wants options to solve future voting snags Story Here Archive |
RALEIGH, N.C. - Voters whose ballots were lost to machine error should be allowed to revote to complete an election, the state elections director recommended to lawmakers Friday. |
Debate begins on how to fix nation's voting system Story Here Archive |
WASHINGTON - While Congress this week officially certified President Bush as the winner of the 2004 election, effectively ending weeks of challenges in Ohio, the debate over how to fix the nation's voting system has just begun. |
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