Florida voters to begin casting early ballots
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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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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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Voters trying to beat the rush turned out early to cast ballots in many precincts as Election Day opened, forming long lines that snaked out the doors, waiting in rain and even taking along chairs for expected long waits.
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Election day may be in November, but some Americans will start casting ballots next week under early voting laws that have reshaped the campaign landscape and changed the most fundamental act of democracy.
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With election time just around the corner, Alachua County is gearing up by following suit with many other Florida counties. Early voting is now taking place in an attempt to get more voters out to the polls due to such a tight race for the presidency.
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Florida voters cast  their ballots on Tuesday in a contest that could anoint a  front-runner among Republicans in the White House race and  spell trouble for onetime favorite former New York Mayor Rudy  Giuliani.
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Within hours of the opening of advance polls in the American presidential election, problems were being reported in the state of Florida.
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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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ORLANDO, Fla. On the first day Floridians could vote, John Kerry criss-crossed the state seeking support and sharply criticizing President Bush.
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The Senate will get either its first Cuban American member, or another woman, when Floridians vote next Tuesday. Former housing Secretary Mel Martinez and Democrat Betty Castor are locked in as tight a race as President Bush and John Kerry.
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Observers, both Republican and Democrat, have become a new addition to early voting precincts throughout South Florida. At most early voting sites, they&#39;re found sitting quietly in a corner
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The first votes in the contest to elect the next president will be cast in 10 weeks and two days, and intensive campaigning continues this week in Iowa, the site of the kickoff caucuses, to make every moment until then count.
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Partisan passions are running high four days before Election Day in battleground states around the country, but nowhere so intensely as in Florida
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George W. Bush and challenger John Kerry will duel for votes in Florida, where early polling opens in a deadlocked race soured by memories of the 2000 election debacle.
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MIAMI, OCTOBER 18 : Early voting for next monthâs Presidential election got underway in Florida on Monday, with Democrats in particular urging supporters to use their early ballot as a means of avoiding a repeat of the recount fiasco in the 2000 election
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With polls showing nearly equal numbers of Florida voters for President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, the election's outcome may again hinge on a Florida recount. And the more that Floridians learn about how voting machines work, the more they question whether the 15 counties with paperless voting systems can accurately count and recount votes.
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The deciding votes in this critical battleground state could be cast long before President Bush and Sen. John Kerry make their final pleas to voters.