Nev. Move to Block Some Dem Voters Fails
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Elections officials have rebuffed an attempt by a former GOP operative to purge about 17,000 Democrats from the voter rolls in the battleground state of Nevada, where the two presidential candidates are in a dead heat.
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PHOENIX, Sept. 11 -- A federal judge declined Monday to block a law that requires Arizona voters to present identification before casting a ballot.
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A judge Tuesday tossed out a legal challenge aimed at blocking Nevada's five electoral votes from being cast next month for President Bush. In election challenges in two other states, a recount was sought and another was ended.
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By Wayne Washington, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Mar. 4--Democratic candidates need more than quarters to play the political slot machine that is Nevada's January 2008 caucus.   They need to oppose opening a nuclear waste repository in the state.
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Key elements of the bipartisan immigration measure that failed a crucial test vote in the Senate Thursday night:
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By Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Feb. 12--FEB.
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A judge Friday granted a state Republican Party request to block the counting of hundreds of recently discovered King County ballots in Washington's extremely close governor's race.
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The widely publicized failure in Prince George's County to electronically transmit results from many polls after the Sept. 12 primary was compounded by a host of other errors, including failure to swiftly collect the data cards on which some votes are recorded and to properly secure voting machines.
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Access cards needed for Diebold Systems e-voting hardware were not initially available in Montgomery County, Md., on Tuesday morning. The result: Primary Day voters had to use improvised paper ballots or give up entirely.
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Governor Mitt Romney's push to sell the state-owned John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in the Back Bay will be rejected today by a special state commission that includes Romney appointees, panel members said.
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Sen. Joe Lieberman won't have to fight to stay in the Democratic Party, after all. The state's Democratic registrar rejected a petition by peace activists to strike Lieberman from the party rolls on Thursday. State law allows for expulsion from the party if the member runs for office under another political banner.
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Most limit such voting to local elections and legal immigrants. But state legislatures often intercede.
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By The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep. 14--Congressman Brian Baird, D-Vancouver, said he supports restricting off-reservation gambling, but he voted against a bill Wednesday because there was limited opportunity for debate and amendments.
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The law that pushed Michigan's presidential primary to Jan. 15 was ruled unconstitutional by a court Wednesday, at least temporarily jeopardizing the state's plan to leap to the front of the 2008 nomination contests.
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Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader suffered setbacks this week as election officials in Virginia, Maryland, Illinois and Missouri all denied him access to state ballots this fall.
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By JOHN A. COLVIN  PORT ALLEN - A resolution supporting a subdivision development on the city's outskirts failed without a vote before the City Council on Wednesday night.
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By Katie Mulvaney; Journal Staff Writer  A political advocacy group plans to push the state's congressional leaders to rebuff attempts by the Narragansett Indian tribe to have repealed a federal law that requires the tribe to seek voter approval for any gambling halls on their land.