Millions Blocked from Voting in U.S. Election
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Millions of U.S. citizens, including  a disproportionate number of black voters, will be blocked from  voting in the Nov. 2 presidential election because of legal  barriers, faulty procedures or dirty tricks, according to civil  rights and legal experts.
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Americans waited in heat and in rain on Tuesday in snaking lines, some lasting several hours - even in uncompetitive states - to vote and be counted in one of the closest and most combative elections in US history.
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A national voting rights group says it documented hundreds of voting irregularities affecting poor and minority voters in seven Southern states &#151; from long lines and faulty equipment to deliberate voter intimidation.
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A new national backup system meant to ensure that millions of eligible voters are not mistakenly turned away from the polls this year, as happened in 2000, could wind up causing Election Day problems as infamous as Florida&#39;s hanging chads.
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New absentee ballots will be sent to  voters in one of Florida's most populous counties to replace  thousands that disappeared in the run-up to Tuesday's U.S.  elections, an election official said on Thursday.
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Tens of thousands of former felons could be illegally denied their right to vote in this year's U.S. presidential election in November because of bureaucratic bungling and misinformation, activists said on Monday.
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In a glimpse of what the nation might see a month from now, people lined up at election offices and caused parking lot traffic jams as voter registration deadlines fell Monday in more than a dozen states.    Many officials reported record numbers of new voters, some said they were overwhelmed, and allegations were already flying about fraud and the disqualification of some voters' applications...
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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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Local officials are using election law to block independent candidates.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. -- With voters jamming phone lines saying they haven&#39;t received absentee ballots in the mail, elections officials planned to mail out thousands of replacement ballots.
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New absentee ballots will be sent to voters in one of Florida&#39;s most populous counties to replace thousands that disappeared in the run-up to Tuesday&#39;s US elections, an election official said on Thursday.
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NEW ORLEANS - Many New Orleans voters were unable to cast ballots Saturday on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage because voting machines had not been delivered to polling places, a state official said.    At least 35 precincts did not have voting machines because drivers hired to deliver the machines had apparently not shown up for work, said Scott Madere, a spokesman for Secretary of State Fox McKeithen...
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People based outside the US have been unable to visit the re-election website of the President Bush.
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Americans abroad are registering in record numbers, and their votes could swing the U.S. election
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Thousands of Floridians who think they're registered to vote could be turned away at the polls Nov. 2 because their voter registration forms weren't completely filled out, officials said Friday.
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MIAMI  - The bizarre disappearance of tens of thousands of ballots has fueled worries over Florida&#39;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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Long queues formed outside polling booths across the United States amid predictions of a record turnout for one of the tightest presidential elections in decades.