Fla. County to Replace Absentee Ballots
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With voters jamming phone lines saying they haven't received absentee ballots in the mail, elections officials planned to mail out thousands of replacement ballots.
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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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Opponents of a measure to add slot machines at south Florida race tracks are demanding a recount in Broward County, insisting there is something strange about a batch of 78,000 absentee votes that helped tip the scales for the proposal.
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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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Edward Bitet fought in World War II, built affordable housing for veterans and taught sixth grade. When the Long Island native retired to Florida, he fulfilled another civic duty by becoming a poll worker. But Bitet, 77, isn't volunteering this year &#151; he says he doesn't trust Palm Beach County's electronic voting machines. He walked out of a county demonstration of touch-screen terminals convinced that software bugs could wreak havoc on Nov. 2.
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THE STRATEGY: Politicians are reaching out to voters who have already applied for absentee ballots.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Oct. 16, 2004 - Florida set new guidelines for recounting touch-screen ballots in close elections, but voter-rights groups said the court-ordered decision doesn&#39;t go nearly far enough to ensure a fair election.
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In what may be their last hope of reclaiming an evaporated lead in the Washington governor&#39;s race before turning to the courts, Republicans have asked county auditors statewide to reconsider ballots that were rejected on Election Day.
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MIAMI  - The bizarre disappearance of tens of thousands of ballots has fueled worries over Florida&#39;s ability to avert a repeat of the chaos of 2000, when Americans were kept guessing for 36 days who won the election.
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Several absentee voters want their ballots back after voting for a judge whose coarse Internet postings drew recent news coverage. Election officials say forget about it.
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Cheryl Roberts was impressed with Florida's new voting machines in the 2002 primary, when she cast an electronic ballot for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill McBride. But a series of computer glitches - including startling cases of corrupted or missing data - has undermined her faith...
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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday is expected to unveil plans to spend $20 million to replace touchscreen e-voting systems in 17 counties with optical scan units that have paper records.
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A Florida judge ordered county elections officials on Wednesday to issue absentee ballots without the name of independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader, a possible blow to President Bush in the battleground state.
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MIAMI -- There will be no "hanging chads" this time around in Florida. The punch-card voting that plagued the 2000 presidential election in the state is long gone.
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Thousands of Floridians who think they're registered to vote could be turned away at the polls Nov. 2 because their voter registration forms weren't completely filled out, officials said Friday.
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Authorities in Florida were looking for 58,000 absentee ballots whose disappearance stirred renewed controversy in the state that held up the 2000 presidential election for five weeks.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, United States  - The disappearance of tens of thousands of ballots has raised new questions about Florida&#39;s ability to avert a repeat of the 2000 debacle, and fueled protests in the battleground state.