Panel votes to end Fla. election probe
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A House task force voted Friday to end an investigation into a disputed 2006 Florida congressional election after extensive testing showed that touch-screen voting machines likely worked properly.
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House leaders Ã¢ÂÂ namely Speaker J. Dennis Hastert Ã¢ÂÂ did not violate the rules of the House earlier this year in the handling of reports that ex-Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., had sent suggestive e-mails to a former page, according to the ethics committee, which concluded a nine-week investigation Friday.
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A federal judge ruled on Monday that Florida&#39;s elections division did not need to create a paper trail for the controversial touchscreen voting systems that will be used
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An independent inquiry is helping to defuse a controversy over ink used in Saturday's election.
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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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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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Florida will not be forced to create a paper record in case of recounts in elections on touch-screen voting machines, a federal judge ruled Monday.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday said he would propose abandoning touch-screen voting machines adopted after the disputed 2000 presidential race and replacing them with devices that provide a paper record.
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A state rule barring Florida counties with touch-screen voting from conducting manual recounts is at odds with state law, according to an administrative law judge ruling in a lawsuit against the state.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.  - Voters displaced by  hurricanes or given flawed instructions should be allowed to  cast ballots outside their designated precincts, critics of  Florida's provisional ballot law told the state Supreme Court  on Wednesday.
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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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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida Gov. Charlie Crist  on Wednesday said he would propose abandoning touch-screen  voting machines adopted after the disputed 2000 presidential  race and replacing them with devices that provide a paper  record.
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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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Ralph Nader is again off Florida's presidential ballot, at least for now. Circuit Judge P. Kevin Davey on Wednesday ordered that Nader's name be removed from the November ballot, finding that the Reform Party &#151; which nominated Nader &#151; isn't a legitimate party under state law. Davey also ordered that four counties that have already mailed absentee ballots listing Nader send out amended ballots without his name.
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Florida set new guidelines for recounting touch-screen ballots in close elections, but voter-rights groups said the court-ordered decision doesn't go nearly far enough to ensure a fair election.
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A panel absolved Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy of corruption charges, ending a trial that had dragged on for more than four years.
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A state rule barring the 15 Florida counties with touchscreen voting from conducting manual recounts is at odds with state law, which requires hand recounts in some close elections, a judge ruled Friday.