Vote Swaps Revamped for 2004
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If you'd like to vote for a third-party candidate, but don't want to cost the Democrats or Republicans the election, take heart. Sites are cropping up to allow voters in swing states to swap votes with people in non-swing states. By Joanna Glasner.
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Thousands plan to take part this year in an online effort that lets backers of third-party candidates in swing states trade votes with people in less critical locations. But overall participation is lower than in 2000. By Joanna Glasner.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. While attention focuses on Florida, where election chaos reigned four years ago, voters in many other states also have begun voting.
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Some voters say machines indicated they had voted for a different candidate.
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Weeks before this year&#39;s Nov. 2 general election, Marion County Clerk Doris Anne Sadler today announced a series of reforms to make voting go more smoothly.
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Russian elections will be valid regardless of turnout under laws that went into effect Thursday, a major change that critics say is the latest step by the Kremlin to control the political process before key votes in 2007 and 2008.
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WASHINGTON - Call it the law of unintended consequences. 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's hanging chads...
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Video site brings new factors to elections in U.S., Spain and Australia.
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Thanks to 2004 presidential  election, Americans now know that after a lot "flip-flopping"  the country is divided into "red and blue states" where "moral  values" are important, according to a survey of political terms  that became household words during the campaign.
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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A top court in Ukraine on Saturday overturned some legal changes intended to cut election fraud, a day before a re-run of a presidential vote that has become a test of democratic legitimacy and national identity.
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Rasmussen Reports - Based upon our latest poll in New Jersey Rasmussen Reports is shifting the Garden State Senate race from &quot;Leans Democrat&quot; to &quot;Toss-Up.&quot; This reduces the number of states in the Democrat or Leans Democrat categories to 45. Fifty Senate seats are favored to remain in GOP hands while 5 are now in the Toss-Up category. (see State-by-State Summary).
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Electoral commission announces decision to move scheduled January election to next month
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THE BCS system has been tweaked and patched and overhauled and then tweaked some more. As was written in this same space this time last year, the year before that and the year before that
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A top court in Ukraine on Saturday  overturned some legal changes intended to cut election fraud, a  day before a re-run of a presidential vote that has become a  test of democratic legitimacy and national identity.
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KIEV Last Friday, the Supreme Court of Ukraine reversed the Central Election Commission&#39;s declaration of Viktor Yanukovich as president and called for the second round of the nation&#39;s presidential balloting to be repeated on Dec. 26.
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U.S. money managers took the re-election of President Bush as a cue to make a significant shift to stocks from bonds after months of hesitation, a new Reuters asset allocation poll shows.