NAACP Sues Fla. County Over Voting Site
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The NAACP sued Volusia County's elections supervisor, alleging the county disenfranchises blacks by having only one early voting site in an area where fewer minorities live.
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By Richard Dymond, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Feb. 14--EAST MANATEE -- Manatee County staffers, posing as members of the public, tested public access at community development districts across the county and were improperly denied access to at least two communities, county officials said.
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By Elias E. Lopez, The Miami Herald  Dec. 10--Palmetto Bay Mayor Eugene Flinn asked residents to join him in a fight against overdevelopment in Miami-Dade County, rising insurance rates and "unfair" mitigation fees during his annual State of the Village address Wednesday.
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Republicans and the father of a serviceman sued Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell on Friday, hoping to extend to 30 days the deadline for counting overseas military and civilian ballots for president.
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A Democratic activist sued the national and state parties in federal court Thursday over the decision to strip Florida of its delegates for next year's presidential nominating convention.
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By Kyle Kennedy, The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla.  Jan. 31--LAKELAND -- Online job hunters have their Monster, and Polk  County students in need of volunteer work now have a Sweat Monkey.
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Tensions have been mounting in the runup to the presidential election as Florida politicians trade accusations over claims of fraud, missing absentee ballots and concerns that thousands of voter registrations will be challenged in "hand-to-hand combat at the precincts" on Nov. 2.
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Florida election officials on Monday declared Republican Vern Buchanan as the winner of the race in the stateÃ¢ÂÂs southwestern 13th District. But Democratic nominee Christine Jennings is formally challenging the results, arguing that voting machine errors in one county account for BuchananÃ¢ÂÂs apparent lead.
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By Harry Franklin, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Sep. 21--Four residents have filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction to keep Cusseta-Chattahoochee County from creating a police department.
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Political parties and civil rights activists have brought a wealth of lawsuits on voting issues before the Nov. 2 U.S. presidential election even gets under way.
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Congressional candidate Donna Edwards announced plans yesterday to file a lawsuit over apparent voting irregularities in Tuesday's primary election in Prince George's County, while defeated county executive challenger Rushern L. Baker III demanded an independent investigation of the process.
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Glitch in Palm Beach County, FL--home of the hanging chad--is cited as evidence that ATM-style voting machines are unreliable.
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By Ron Sylvester, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Sep. 11--A Sedgwick County district judge who has pushed for campaign reform in judicial elections for 10 years has asked a federal judge in Topeka to let him join a lawsuit against the commission that wants to keep candidates silent.
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Florida is already teeming with lawsuits charging the state and its county elections supervisors with voter disenfranchisement.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Tens of thousands of recently found ballots in a Florida county are reversing one outcome in Tuesday&#39;s election.
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A federal appeals court on Monday revived a lawsuit seeking a paper trail for Florida's new touchscreen voting machines with only five weeks left before the presidential election.
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Tallahassee, Fla. -- People who cast provisional ballots at the wrong precinct are not entitled to have their votes counted, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting an argument by labor unions that the rule wrongly disenfranchises voters.