Early Voting for President Begins with 'Hiccups'
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Early voting for the U.S. presidential election began in Florida on Monday as activists urged people to opt for early ballots to avoid a repeat of the 2000 election fiasco, but computer problems and long lines soon emerged.
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Early voting began Monday in closely watched Florida and three other states with the election little more than two weeks away. Texas, Colorado and Arkansas joined Florida in casting
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BOSTON - Tens of millions of people will cast their votes Nov. 2 in one of the most hotly contested presidential elections in recent U.S. history. But voters across the U.S. will encounter different voting technologies and procedures, with many counties nationwide clinging to punchcard, lever machine and even paper ballots, and the transition to electronic voting moving slowly in many states.
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Long lines, a shortage of poll workers and unprecedented numbers of mail-in ballots could delay vote counts in the biggest-ever Super Tuesday in American politics Â a day in which nearly half the nation will cast ballots.
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VOTER PREDICAMENT: For many people, the question this year isn't just which presidential candidate to vote for, it's when. The race is so unsettled that today's champ can be tomorrow's chump.
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Florida officials said initial glitches had been sorted out in early voting, which was marked by a strong turnout as the presidential candidates focused much of their attention on the key battleground state.
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The surge in early voting is affecting where candidates are sent and money is spent in the final days of the campaign.
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Election Day is still two weeks away, but voters across the state have the option Monday of beginning to cast their ballots early in this pivotal battleground state.
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Election Day is still two weeks away, but voters across Florida have the option Monday of beginning to cast their ballots early in this pivotal battleground state.
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Vote early and often is more than a joke in New Jersey.
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Voter turnout is expected to be high in the US election, according to recent polls, and many Americans have already cast their ballots in record early voting.
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Never mind the first Tuesday in November. Every day from now to Nov. 7 is Election Day somewhere in America.
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Courted by the candidates, some Florida residents headed to the polls in early voting instituted after electoral chaos in the state held up the 2000 presidential election for five weeks.
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Never mind the first Tuesday in November. Every day from now to Nov. 7 is Election Day somewhere in America. People in Nebraska and Arizona, with some of the fastest starting gates, began early voting on the midterm elections this week. Absentee ballots have been cast in states including Iowa and Montana since last month. And around the country, polling places in different states will gradually be opening for business over the next month.
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Inundated with politics long before the 2008 presidential election, U.S. voters are in danger of suffering wearying bouts of the uniquely American affliction of "campaign fatigue" in coming months.
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Lawsuits, missing absentee ballots and  accusations of bias -- from afar Tuesday's presidential  election in Florida already looks like the Third World-style  fiasco of 2000 that everyone wanted to avoid.
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WASHINGTON As we enter the last days before the presidential election, Americans seem skeptical about the voting process. A new Associated Press Ipsos-Public Affairs poll finds that 60 percent of those asked