Losing Candidate Sues Over Count: Lawsuit Cites Alleged Violations During Fire Commissioner Vote
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By Paul Nelson, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Feb. 1--ROTTERDAM -- In the end, Vincent Rusch lost big, but he contends Carman Fire District 3 officials broke the law by preventing him and his family from observing the ballots being counted in elections for commissioner in December.
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A September hearing will probe Election Systems & Software's possible violation of state election laws for allegedly selling uncertified voting machines to California counties. The company faces the possibility of millions of dollars in fines and other punitive measures.
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A state rule barring Florida counties with touch-screen voting from conducting manual recounts is at odds with state law, according to an administrative law judge ruling in a lawsuit against the state.
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The Career Couch column last Sunday, about presidential politics in the office, referred incorrectly to comments by Daniel I. Prywes, a partner in the Washington offices of the law firm Bryan Cave. When Mr. Prywes said that soliciting participation in political events might be permissible, he was referring to both employers and employees, not just employees. In addition, he said that employers who coerce employees to make political contributions would be violating federal election laws; he was not referring to employees who solicit contributions.
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Corrupt campaigning practices. Charges of sexual harassment. Racial and gender issues. A presidential election thrown out, the winner disqualified, the loser withdrawn.
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Republican Party leaders yesterday laid the groundwork for a possible challenge of Democrat Christine Gregoire&#39;s victory over Dino Rossi in the hand recount for governor, claiming a number of irregularities in the way King County handled ballots.
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Two third-party presidential candidates filed a federal lawsuit Monday to force a recount of Ohio ballots, and a spokesman for the state Democratic Party said it intends to join the suit.
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Two lawmakers in the House of Representatives filed suit against US election authorities for failing to regulate &quot;527&quot; groups that have overshadowed the current US presidential campaign.
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A US federal judge started hearing a lawsuit calling for the inclusion on Florida's voter rolls of about 10,000 people whose registration forms were rejected because they were not properly filled out.
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California Attorney General Bill Lockyer will move forward with a false-claims lawsuit against the electronic voting-machine maker. The Golden State accuses Diebold of installing electronic voting systems that were not tested or approved.
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Republican Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi lost the first round in the courts Monday in a lawsuit challenging his chosen Senate special election date, leaving the election schedule in flux.
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The House Republicans' campaign arm may be a victim of fraud by a former employee, and it has asked law enforcement officials to investigate "irregularities in our financial audit process."
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The campaign of Senator John Kerry, stepping up a counteroffensive against a veterans group that is attacking his military record, said Friday that it was filing a complaint with the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) accusing the organization of
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A lawsuit filed Wednesday challenges a ballot measure that would scrap Colorado's winner-take-all system for Electoral College votes and award them based on how well the candidate did in the statewide popular vote.
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Pennsylvania will contest a federal lawsuit seeking to give the state's absentee voters an extra two weeks to return their ballots in the presidential election, an official said on Wednesday.
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By Mark Knoller. By Dotty Lynch. (CBS/AP) The Kerry campaign filed a complaint Friday with the Federal Election Commission alleging that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group behind
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By Janelle Frost, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Feb. 10--North Myrtle Beach's former mayor Phil Tilghman has filed suit against a city councilman and a local newspaper, alleging statements published in that paper were false and defamatory.