Hauling Question on Ballot: Voting Forms Containing the Citywide Trash-Collection Referendum Are Mailed to Military Members and Are Ready for Sending to Other Absentee Voters.
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By Don Spatz, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Sep. 24--After a three-month battle resolved in court, the question of whether to begin citywide trash hauling finally is on the ballot for voters to decide.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 11--OCEAN SPRINGS -- Jackson County supervisors have asked staff to help find a way that would allow volunteers with a major relief operation to continue using the county landfill for refuse they create when they reconstruct homes.
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Officials are worried that the efforts of the political parties to promote absentee balloting could taint the general election.
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Absentee voters in the most populous county of a critical state in the presidential election are complaining about a ballot layout that they say might prompt some people to choose the wrong candidate, or none at all.
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By Tiffany Erickson and Bob Bernick Jr. Deseret Morning News  The November referendum vote is going to be clear: Do you want vouchers? Yes or no.
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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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As swing states with large elderly populations  such as Florida gear up for another presidential election, a sleeper issue has been gaining attention on medical, legal and political radar screens:  Many people with advanced dementia appear to be voting in elections -- including through absentee ballot.
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Can I download an absentee ballot for Election Day from the Web?
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By Rita Savard, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Feb. 15--CHELMSFORD -- The 2007 Town Election ballot is formed -- and it won't take long to fill out.
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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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arely two months before the presidential vote, Missouri&#39;s secretary of state has suddenly announced that he will allow military voters from his state - one of the most pivotal in the election - to e-mail ballots from combat zones to the Defense Department
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THE STRATEGY: Politicians are reaching out to voters who have already applied for absentee ballots.
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By John Castellucci; Journal Staff Writer  PAWTUCKET - A City Council committee is recommending the elimination of fees for the pickup of bulky trash items.
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By MATTHEW THOMPSON  DAILY MAIL STAFF  The Secretary of State's office has introduced a new Web site to keep voters and candidates informed about current changes in the state's election process.   The Web site, www.wvvotes. com, was launched last week.
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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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MIAMI: US Postal Service investigators on Wednesday were trying to find thousands of absentee ballots, which should have been delivered to voters in one of Floridaâs most populous counties, officials said.
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By Josh Poltilove, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Feb. 13--TAMPA -- Tampa City Councilman John Dingfelder said Monday that he plans to separate his campaign e-mail from e-mail related to his official capacity as a council member.