Postal hunt on for missing ballots
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MIAMI: US Postal Service investigators on Wednesday were trying to find thousands of absentee ballots, which should have been delivered to voters in one of Floridaâs most populous counties, officials said.
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Two councils are facing calls for an investigation after a box of 1,000 blank cheques were lost by staff.
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The closure of thousands of post offices is expected to be announced next week as part of a bid to save money.
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Administrators are hoping that the victor in this year's presidential election will win by a wide margin. A close race, they fear, will result in more charges of voter fraud and demands for recounts. Kim Zetter reports from Washington.
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Police are struggling to find hope in the disappearance of an autistic Millis boy who remains missing despite a three-day search that has canvassed nearly every corner of his small town.
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By KELLY WIESE    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.  -- Missouri will allow members of the military stationed overseas to return absentee ballots via e-mail, raising concerns from Internet security experts about fraud and ballot secrecy...
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THE STRATEGY: Politicians are reaching out to voters who have already applied for absentee ballots.
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Several absentee voters want their ballots back after voting for a judge whose coarse Internet postings drew recent news coverage. Election officials say forget about it.
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Four years after the &quot;Florida fiasco&quot;, the battleground state is back in the spotlight as thousands of absentee ballots went missing and campaigners traded claims of vote rigging.
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The bizarre disappearance of tens of thousands of ballots has fueled worries over Florida's ability to avert a repeat of the chaos of 2000, when Americans were kept guessing for 36 days who won the election.
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Flaw-proof election machines. Easy-to-read ballots. Registration systems that catch double-voters or dead voters still on the rolls.
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U.S. Postal Service investigators on Wednesday were trying to find thousands of absentee ballots that should have been delivered to voters in one of Florida's most populous counties, officials said.
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A proposal that would let voters decide whether to allow slot machines at race tracks and jai alai frontons in South Florida won approval after elections officials discovered thousands of absentee votes missed in an electronic tally on Election Day.
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In what might be their last hope of reclaiming an evaporated lead in the Washington governorâs race before turning to the courts, Republicans have asked county auditors statewide to reconsider ballots that were rejected on Election Day.
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Election officials in Florida said Thursday they will send new absentee ballots to voters in one of the state&#39;s most populous counties amid outcry over disappearance of thousands of ballots.
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SEATTLE - The second time Duncan M. MacDonald sent in an absentee ballot, an election worker in Federal Way called to ask about the paw print on the envelope. But it took three ballots before the prosecutor contacted the voting dog's owner.
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Among the security concerns that have been raised is the possibility of someone being able to cast multiple ballots. Other concerns are about a sudden power outage and whether data would be lost in such a scenario.