Judge: Votes in Wrong Precinct Don't Count
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The state must reject provisional ballots if they are cast in the wrong precinct, a federal judge said Thursday in the latest in a series of opinions on how such votes should be counted.
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A judge on Friday denied a defeated congressional candidate's request for a new Republican primary, saying the state court lacks jurisdiction.
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A lawsuit demanding touch-screen voting machines be made to produce paper records will not be heard until Oct. 18, a judge ruled Friday, raising doubts that any significant changes to the system used by about half of Florida's voters will happen before 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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The League of Women Voters of San Diego asked a court Wednesday to require that all votes cast for a maverick mayoral write-in candidate be counted, including ballots on which voters failed to fill in the circle next to her name.
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A US federal judge started hearing a lawsuit calling for the inclusion on Florida's voter rolls of about 10,000 people whose registration forms were rejected because they were not properly filled out.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- A federal judge found Monday that new rules from the Federal Election Commission did not follow the intent of lawmakers who wrote a sweeping new law designed to change the way politicians raise money, creating uncertainty for
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A federal judge ignored a Justice Department argument Tuesday and ruled that Michigan must count provisional ballots cast by voters who show up at the wrong polling precincts but are in the right city, township or village.
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ORLANDO, Florida -- A US district judge ruled Monday that Florida election officials have no legal obligation to provide voter-verifiable paper trails for electronic voting machines, but it would be better if they did.
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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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A federal court in Florida ruled that the source code in ES&S electronic voting machines cannot be examined in an effort to find out why 18,000 votes were apparently not counted.
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The judge said the juror had improperly learned some information about the case outside of the courtroom.
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A man accused of murder for a fatal auto crash will not be retried on that charge because prosecutors failed to disclose that an expert witness made numerous errors at the police department crime lab, a judge ruled.
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It was a $100 million mistake, and a federal judge said Friday he doesn't have the power to fix it.
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The state 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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By Paul Nelson, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Feb. 1--ROTTERDAM -- In the end, Vincent Rusch lost big, but he contends Carman Fire District 3 officials broke the law by preventing him and his family from observing the ballots being counted in elections for commissioner in December.
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Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Joseph Manck has rejected a challenge to Maryland's electronic voting system.