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BY MONICA HATCHER  Miami Herald   17 October 2004 Some Miami Lakes activists have called on the county to investigate whether there were irregularities in voting on Oct. 5 in which four incumbents returned to office with slim majorities.
 
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County says error won't impact election    Story Here  Archive  | 
Helen Gao   San Diego Union-Tribune   17 October 2004
 KEARNY MESA – In the latest foul-up before the Nov. 2 election, county election officials yesterday announced that the Registrar of Voters Office inadvertently sent out duplicate absentee ballot packets to more than 1,000 voters. 
 
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Report: Uncounted votes more likely in predominantly black precincts    Story Here  Archive  | 
Associated Press    17 October 2004 COLUMBUS, Ohio - Presidential votes from Ohio's predominantly black precincts, most of which use punch-card ballots, went uncounted at three times the rate of those from predominantly white precincts in the 2000 election, according to a newspaper analysis.
 
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Governor denies rejecting advice to dump voter-felon list    Story Here  Archive  | 
GARY FINEOUT, DAVID KIDWELL AND LESLEY CLARK  Miami Herald   17 October 2004 TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Jeb Bush denied Saturday that he ignored the advice of state election officials to 'pull the plug' on a controversial list the state was using to remove convicted felons from the voter rolls.
 
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FDLE urged 'pull the plug' on voter purge    Story Here  Archive  | 
CHRIS DAVIS and MATTHEW DOIG  Southwest Florida Herald Tribune   16 October 2004 Several days before the state's felon voter list was sent to county elections offices across Florida, state officials expressed doubts about its reliability.
 
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US unprepared to handle election fraud: Congress    Story Here  Archive  | 
The Daily Star  16 October 2004 The US government is ill-prepared to address allegations of voting fraud should they arise during next month's presidential and legislative elections, a congressional report concluded Thursday.
 
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Democrats' suit: Blackwell trying to stymie new voters    Story Here  Archive  | 
Sandy Theis  Cleveland Plain Dealer    16 October 2004 Democrats filed a federal lawsuit Friday that accuses Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell of trying to stymie legions of new voters.
 
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Analyst: Brace for Election Day delay    Story Here  Archive  | 
GEORGIANA VINES  KnoxNews    16 October 2004 Paper ballots, new technology and a Colorado initiative could result in the race between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry on Nov. 2 not being known the morning after the election, Charlie Cook, a nationally known political analyst, told a Knoxville audience Friday.
 
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State rules on how to conduct recounts    Story Here  Archive  | 
Linda Kleindienst and Jeremy Milarsky  South Florida Sun Sentinel   16 October 2004
 In answer to a judge's order, Secretary of State Glenda Hood on Friday night issued a new state rule on how to conduct manual recounts on touch-screen voting machines like those used in Broward and Palm Beach counties. 
 
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State rules on how to conduct recounts    Story Here  Archive  | 
Linda Kleindienst and Jeremy Milarsky  South Florida Sun Sentinel   16 October 2004
 In answer to a judge's order, Secretary of State Glenda Hood on Friday night issued a new state rule on how to conduct manual recounts on touch-screen voting machines like those used in Broward and Palm Beach counties. 
 
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Judge takes up rejected voting forms    Story Here  Archive  | 
 JAY WEAVER   Miami Herald    16 October 2004 The atmosphere in a Miami federal courtroom Friday rekindled memories of the frenzied 2000 presidential election recount battle  only this time the fight was over voter registration. 
Almost a dozen lawyers argued before Senior U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King about a fast-track plan to address the demands of thousands of rejected voter applications before the Nov. 2 general election.
 
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Indian River Shores referendum ends up on the wrong ballots    Story Here  Archive  | 
 Tony Judnich  TCPalm News    16 October 2004 INDIAN RIVER COUNTY  Oops. 
A referendum for Town of Indian River Shores' voters has mistakenly made it onto half of the 841 absentee ballots recently sent to voters who cast votes for candidates for Sebastian Inlet Tax District and Indian River County Mosquito Control District.
 
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Prompt trial on vote urged    Story Here  Archive  | 
 RON WORD  Associated Press    16 October 2004 JACKSONVILLE  With the election rapidly approaching, a judge Friday urged a quick trial for a lawsuit against Florida's largest counties over the rejection more than 10,000 voter registration forms that elections officials say were improperly filled out.
 
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Nevada judge declines to reopen voter registration in Vegas area    Story Here  Archive  | 
By KEN RITTER Associated Press    16 October 2004 LAS VEGAS (AP) - A state judge refused Friday to reopen registration for Clark County residents whose voter applications might have been destroyed by a Republican-funded group.
 
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Neas Calls for Justice Department Investigation in Continuing Florida Election Scandals    Story Here  Archive  | 
Press Release from PFAW    16 October 2004 Washington - People For the American Way Foundation (PFAWF) President Ralph G. Neas said today that new revelations from a “smoking email” about Governor Jeb Bush’s involvement in the attempted implementation of a voter purge list in Florida demand the appointment of a special counsel by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.
 
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Report: Bush ignored advice to 'pull the plug' on voter purge    Story Here  Archive  | 
Associated Press    16 October 2004 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Gov. Jeb Bush ignored advice to "pull the plug" on a flawed felon voter list before it went out to county election offices in spite of a warning from leery state officials, according to a published report Saturday.
 
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State to be put to the test. Can Florida get it right this time?    Story Here  Archive  | 
Rachel LaCorte   Associated Press   16 October 2004 MIAMI - When Florida's voters go to the polls Nov. 2, they will be greeted by more than just poll workers.
 
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Voter registration cards found in car    Story Here  Archive  | 
 PATRICK SWEENEY    ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS   16 October 2004 ST. PAUL - When police at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport stopped a man for running a stop sign late last month, they found an unusual stash in his car trunk: More than 300 voter registration cards that had been filled out but never submitted to the Minnesota secretary of state.
 
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Pa. writes off write-in candidates    Story Here  Archive  | 
By Dimitri Vassilaros  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Do not bother to write in a vote for a presidential candidate in Pennsylvania on Nov. 2. The commonwealth's system of handling such votes is so hideous, it confuses, misleads and disenfranchises voters.
 
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Paul Krugman   New York Times   15 October 2004 Earlier this week former employees of Sproul & Associates (operating under the name Voters Outreach of America), a firm hired by the Republican National Committee to register voters, told a Nevada TV station that their supervisors systematically tore up Democratic registrations.
 
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