Carter fears Florida vote debacle
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Flawed voting arrangements mean Florida faces another election farce, says former US President Jimmy Carter.
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WASHINGTON - Former President Carter says despite changes designed to eliminate voting problems in Florida, where the disputed 2000 presidential election was decided by a few hundred votes, conditions for a fair election in that state still don&#39;t exist.
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Former President Jimmy Carter, who has monitored elections throughout the developing world, predicted on Monday the US presidential vote in Florida would be as flawed as the 2000 poll there.
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Four years after the &quot;Florida fiasco&quot;, the battleground state is back in the spotlight as thousands of absentee ballots went missing and campaigners traded claims of vote rigging.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  - Fears that thousands of  absentee election ballots had gone astray in a hotly contested  Florida county appear to have been allayed on Thursday when  officials said a far small number were missing.
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Electoral authorities in Florida say they will resend tens of thousands of absentee ballots on Friday, after failing to determine the fate of 58,000 ballots that were sent out but not received by voters.
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Pre-election tensions mounted Thursday in Florida amid claims of voter intimidation, promises that absentee ballots will reach the Broward County citizens who are missing them, and
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Florida Democrats could lose their votes for the presidential nominee next year unless they change plans to hold their primary earlier than national party rules allow.
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Republican presidential candidates have swarmed through Florida looking for votes but a family squabble has kept Democratic rivals out of the state or reduced them to sneaking inside its borders.
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Pre-election tension mounted Thursday in Florida amid claims of voter intimidation, promises absentee ballots will reach the Broward County citizens who are missing them and concerns Republicans will question the authenticity of thousands of
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With hundreds of lawyers mobilizing next month to monitor the presidential election, what are the chances of a remake of the Florida 2000 fiasco? Probably quite high, election watchers say.
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Democrat John Kerry sounded a warning to  Americans on Social Security as he headed to Florida on Sunday,  a critical battleground state where early voting was set to  begin under heavy scrutiny because of the recount controversy  four years ago.
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Florida, whose ballot fiasco delayed for weeks the outcome of the 2000 elections, will replace by 2008 voting machines that do not leave a paper trail, Governor Charlie Crist has said.
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Despite all the vows of "never again" after the Florida fiasco of 2000, the scary scenarios for Election Day 2004 seem only to have increased: A tie vote in the Electoral College. A terrorist strike on Election Day. A disputed outcome in a critical state.
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SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Florida  - Florida voters could anoint a front-runner among Republicans in the White House race and put onetime favorite and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in trouble in the state's nominating contest on Tuesday.
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Florida, which held up the results of the  2000 presidential election by more than a month, holds a  primary this week that many regard as a test of the state's  readiness to avoid another fiasco in November.
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The disappearance of tens of thousands of ballots has raised new questions about Florida's ability to avert a repeat of the 2000 debacle, and fueled protests in the battleground state.