Florida high court rules on provisional ballots
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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.
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The Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to uphold the nation's strictest requirement that voters show photo identification before casting a ballot.
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TALLAHASSEE - Consumer activist Ralph Nader and state Republicans scored a major victory Friday when Nader was assured a spot on Florida&#39;s presidential ballot in a 6-1 decision by the Florida Supreme Court.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.  - Florida's top court on  Wednesday allowed the inclusion of independent presidential  candidate Ralph Nader on absentee ballots, but told the state  not to mail any of the ballots until it had made a final  decision on the validity of Nader's candidacy.
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A judge ruled Friday that a lawsuit demanding that Florida's touch-screen voting machines produce a paper record will not be heard until Oct. 18 &#151; too late, perhaps, to affect the November presidential election.
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Florida election officials will not be required to process incomplete voter registration forms for the presidential election, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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A lawsuit filed in Florida state court Tuesday alleges that electronic voting machines in a portion of Florida's 13th Congressional District were improperly maintained and selected, causing problems in the House race there.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.  - Florida's highest court ruled  Friday that independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader must  be allowed to compete in the 2004 election in the state,  delivering a possible boost to President Bush.
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Voting 9 to 0, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ruling by the federal appeals court in New York that found the system for choosing nominees to the stateâs trial court unconstitutional.
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A dispute over the unusually high number of abstentions in November 7 legislative elections in Florida reached the courts this week, with voters and a losing candidate calling for fresh elections in echoes of the state's 2000 election debacle.
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Florida's attempts to avoid a repeat of the 2000 election fiasco took another hit late Monday when federal judges ordered a lower court to hear a lawsuit demanding that electronic voting machines be equipped to print receipts for voters.
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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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Nearly two-thirds of the provisional ballots cast in Florida on Election Day were not counted, mostly because the voters were not registered, officials said Monday.
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A 2002 election reform law requires every state to offer backup, or provisional ballots to voters this year. The ballots will be used when voters think they are properly registered but their names do not appear on the rolls. States have adopted different rules for evaluating the ballots.
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The Florida Supreme Court has ruled Ralph Nader can appear on state ballots as a presidential candidate, increasing the chance the maverick contender will again influence the outcome of the presidential election.
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Independent presidential candidate Ralph  Nader's name can appear on Florida ballots for the election,  despite a court order to the contrary, Florida's elections  chief told officials on Monday in a move that could help  President Bush in the key swing state.
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Provisional ballots, a presidential wild card in battleground Ohio, are part of the national election reforms prompted by the election meltdown in Florida four years ago.