U.S. Aims to Thwart Attack Around Election
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The FBI has conducted thousands of  interviews and will step up efforts to thwart a possible attack  by al Qaeda in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 2 election,  senior U.S. officials said on Monday.
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The FBI has launched a new drive to  seek information from Muslim and Arab Americans to help thwart  any pre-election attack, a move some communities consider a  racist campaign which will not make America safer.
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A sampling of Election Day security measures being taken by state and local officials around the country amid threat of a possible terrorist attack.
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Substantial threats to the integrity of the U.S. presidential election remain despite an improvement in election practices since 2000, an international delegation of election observers reported on Thursday.
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The foreign policy "revolution"  launched by President Bush, including his commitment to use  military force against those he sees as a threat to America, is  at stake in the Nov. 2 election.
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But the defense secretary said that the U.S. was determined to insure that voting takes place as planned.
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Secretary of State Ken Blackwell said he will do what he can to keep ballots from the contentious 2004 presidential election beyond their scheduled destruction date in response to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday.
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US officials conducting an aggressive campaign to foil potential terrorist attacks ahead of the US election have reportedly found no specific, hard evidence of an election-related terrorist plot.
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The United States called on Ukrainian authorities to make sure votes were counted accurately in the presidential election Sunday after fraud marred the previous vote.
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With about three weeks to go until the US presidential election, the two major party candidates are on the attack. The tone is becoming more acrimonious with each passing day.
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As the voting gets underway, in what is expected to be a tight race, there are already election fears of fraud. Many are worried that the PSD (Social Democrats) might attempt to manipulate the voting in some way.
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With the presidential election less than six weeks away, activists and security experts are ratcheting up concern over the use of touch-screen machines to cast votes.
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'These actions will provide a powerful deterrent,' says the US secretary of state.
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WASHINGTON - As the election draws nearer, U.S. officials are increasingly concerned al-Qaida terrorists will attempt to mount a devastating attack to disrupt the political process...
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The United States expressed concern  on Monday about any indefinite postponement of elections in  Pakistan after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and  encouraged Islamabad to go ahead with the vote.
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U.S. offensives in rebel-held Iraqi  cities in recent weeks are part of a major push to wrest them  from insurgents before the end of December to allow local  security forces to oversee elections, U.S. commanders said.
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TONY EASTLEY: In the United States, the Presidential election campaign is ending as it began, dominated by matters of national security.