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Electronic Voting Glitches Reported Story Here Archive | ||||||
Today's election was the first major test for the electronic voting machines, which record results on hard drives instead of on paper. More than 45 million people in 29 states, or 29% of the nation's electorate, were expected to cast votes on the new machines, up sharply from 12% in 2000. | ||||||
Officials say long lines, complex ballot cause most problems at polls Story Here Archive | ||||||
SACRAMENTO - Elections officials reported a mostly smooth vote Tuesday in California, noting only minor complaints as people cast ballots and scattered malfunctions among 28,000 electronic voting machines. | ||||||
Legal eagles preparing for voting challenges Story Here Archive | ||||||
WEST PALM BEACH ? With four years to learn from the mistakes and successes of the 2000 presidential election debacle, Republicans and Democrats have adopted the same strategy to handle potential problems coming out of Tuesday's race ? more lawyers. | ||||||
Local absentee ballots lost Story Here Archive | ||||||
Record numbers of voters in the central San Joaquin Valley have been sent absentee ballots this year, but some report they have not received them on the eve of Tuesday's general election. | ||||||
Republicans lose 11th-hour suit challenging Broward voter rolls Story Here Archive | ||||||
With less than 12 hours before the polls open, Republicans laid the groundwork for a possible legal challenge to the presidential election with an eleventh-hour lawsuit questioning the accuracy of the voting rolls in Broward County, the most heavily Democratic county in Florida. | ||||||
Watching for a Groundswell Story Here Archive | ||||||
Tomorrow's "too close to call" presidential election may not be so close after all, a woman I know predicted the other day. There's a good chance, she said, that it will be decided by the "unwanted, unpolled unlikelies." That, of course, would be great news for challenger John Kerry, who has never had more than a marginal lead in the polls among those considered likely voters. | ||||||
Poll Chiefs Brace for Substantial Challenges Story Here Archive | ||||||
Election officials across the region are girding themselves for the challenges they will face tomorrow: heavy turnout, hundreds of thousands of newly registered voters and new voting technology. | ||||||
Church buses deliver voters Story Here Archive | ||||||
Hundreds of voters stood in line for as long as four hours in the sun Sunday afternoon for a chance to vote early. Willie Luzetta Gibson, 76, came directly from Sunday morning church services and stood in line at Palm Beach County's main elections office because, she said, "this is the most important election of my life." | ||||||
An African observer's view of the US polls Story Here Archive | ||||||
Kwesi Addae from Ghana is part of a team sent to the United States by a group campaigning for social justice, Global Exchange, to observe the conduct of the elections. But as he tells BBC News from Columbus, Ohio, Americans can respond badly to being advised on their system by Africans. | ||||||
GOP plan targeted new voters Story Here Archive | ||||||
Although U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott ruled early today that it is unconstitutional to post challengers at Ohio's polling places, Ohio Republicans apparently initially intended to target lists of voters many newly registered in heavily Democratic precincts throughout the state on Tuesday, according to a GOP training manual. | ||||||
Writer hit by police at poll Story Here Archive | ||||||
WEST PALM BEACH - A widely published investigative journalist was tackled, punched and arrested Sunday afternoon by a Palm Beach County sheriff's deputy who tried to confiscate his camera outside the election supervisor's headquarters. | ||||||
GOP, Milwaukee leaders reach agreement on voter list Story Here Archive | ||||||
MILWAUKEE - Officials from the Republican Party of Wisconsin and the city of Milwaukee have reached an agreement on how the registrations of thousands of voters with questionable addresses will be handled at the polls Tuesday. | ||||||
GOP hopeful challenges 1,500 on voter list Story Here Archive | ||||||
While many political candidates become proficient in producing fliers, glad-handing neighbors and speaking publicly, one legislative candidate has seemed to master the art of filing complaints. | ||||||
Judges Bar Party Challengers at Ohio Polls Story Here Archive | ||||||
CINCINNATI - Two federal judges on Monday barred parties from posting challengers at polling places throughout Ohio, saying poll workers, not outsiders, should determine voter eligibility. State Republicans planned to appeal. | ||||||
Sec. of State Reverses Decision Barring Parties From Monitoring Votes Story Here Archive | ||||||
SANTA FE ? The state's three major political parties will be allowed to monitor the secretary of state's office as it checks post-election vote tallies from | ||||||
Republicans distance selves from vote-blocking attempt Story Here Archive | ||||||
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ? Oregon Republicans are distancing the party from a letter sent by a Portland attorney to Multnomah County's election director challenging ballots cast by new voters who were not asked to provide identification. | ||||||
Republicans Sue Broward Elections Official Over Voter Rolls Story Here Archive | ||||||
MIAMI Republicans sued Broward elections supervisor Brenda Snipes on Monday, arguing she failed to the list of voters who cast ballots early for Tuesday's election. Republican officials said they were concerned that throngs of voters showing up Monday at the county's 14 early voting sites could possibly vote again Election Day. The list sent to precincts contained the names of people who voted early through Sunday. | ||||||
When Did Voting Get So Intimidating? Story Here Archive | ||||||
On the eve of an election in a great nation trying to sell the idea of democracy to the rest of the world, it is a scandal that so many Americans are wondering whether judges and lawyers not voters will decide the outcome. It is a scandal that one side suspects the other of trying to depress turnout in the name of fighting fraud. It is a scandal that all this talk of a disputed election may discourage some voters from going to the polls. It is a scandal that we have taken a basic act of citizenship and turned it into a complicated, litigated, chad-infested, technologically convoluted and anxiety-ridden act. | ||||||
The Election Day scene is set for a litigation mess Story Here Archive | ||||||
Legions of lawyers poised to strike. A new kind of "provisional" ballot with issues of its own. Thousands of brand-new voters being asked to show ID. | ||||||
Election faces new scrutiny Story Here Archive | ||||||
As New Hampshire braces for a historically crowded Election Day, the attorney general's office has warned election officials that they will face "an unprecedented level of scrutiny" on Tuesday. | ||||||
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