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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A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Duval County to install special voting machines for blind and disabled voters in time for the November election.
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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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Lawsuits, missing absentee ballots and  accusations of bias -- from afar Tuesday's presidential  election in Florida already looks like the Third World-style  fiasco of 2000 that everyone wanted to avoid.
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A county that switched this year from voter punch cards to an electronic scanner system still had hundreds of uncounted ballots Friday, holding up a congressional race and the balance of the state legislature.
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Can I download an absentee ballot for Election Day from the Web?
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In what might be their last hope of reclaiming an evaporated lead in the Washington governorâs 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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By Anthony Mccartney, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Jun. 7--TAMPA -- Facing a standing-room-only crowd, county commissioners postponed a decision Wednesday on an ordinance that independent trash haulers say would put them out of business.
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Absentee ballots mailed by Florida elections supervisors too late for possibly thousands of voters to return them on time should still count, the American Civil Liberties Union argued in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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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 &#151; including startling cases of corrupted or missing data &#151; has undermined her faith. So for Tuesday's primary in Florida, Roberts is turning to an absentee ballot so Broward County has a paper record of her vote.
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Election officials in Florida said Thursday they will send new absentee ballots to voters in one of the state&#39;s most populous counties amid outcry over disappearance of thousands of ballots.
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By Heather Civil, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Feb. 8--Touch-screen voting machines, once touted as a way to cut back on the stacks of paper produced during elections, may end up making paper trails of their own.   Gov.
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By Joel Hood, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 14--The filing period to run for municipal office in the March 13 elections closed Tuesday, with some candidates already victorious and others locked in heated races to the finish.
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THE STRATEGY: Politicians are reaching out to voters who have already applied for absentee ballots.
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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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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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Officials in one Missouri county are reprinting absentee ballots for the Nov. 2 general election after discovering that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were left off.