Ohio vote hinges on absentee ballots, provisional votes
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The nation will have to wait one more day to find out who the next president of the United States will be. It could be a week and a half before there&#39;s any official word on who claimed Ohio.
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With three weeks until Nov. 2, Ohio has become the epicenter of lawsuits over an election that has yet to be held. Officials there are trying to fend off court challenges about provisional
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Voter advocates are closely watching Ohio's preparations for the presidential election, worried that the secretary of state's instructions could lead to the kind of confusion and legal challenges that Florida went through in 2000.
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Pre-election tension mounted Thursday in Florida amid claims of voter intimidation, promises absentee ballots will reach the Broward County citizens who are missing them and concerns Republicans will question the authenticity of thousands of
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Absentee voters in the most populous county of a critical state in the presidential election are complaining about a ballot layout that they say might prompt some people to choose the wrong candidate, or none at all.
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THE STRATEGY: Politicians are reaching out to voters who have already applied for absentee ballots.
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DEMOCRATIC Senator John Kerry&#39;s party will investigate polling in the crucial state of Ohio after official US election results today confirmed President George W. Bush won there by less votes than first thought.
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Michigan election officials expressed concern Thursday that both voters and local precinct clerks may be confused on Election Day because of a federal judge's decision making it easier for voters to cast provisional ballots.
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The outcome of the 2004 US presidential election remained uncertain early Wednesday morning, with the Democrats refusing to admit defeat in Ohio, a decisive state in this year&#39;s race for the White House.
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New absentee ballots will be sent to voters in one of Florida&#39;s most populous counties to replace thousands that disappeared in the run-up to Tuesday&#39;s US elections, an election official said on Thursday.
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THE CHALLENGED: Some 35,000 voter registrations in Ohio have been challenged by the state's Republican Party. They include the homeless, soldiers serving in Iraq and people with post office boxes.
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The counting of more than 150,000 provisional ballots cast in Ohio will go forward, despite John Kerry's concession that President Bush had won the state's 20 electoral votes, election officials said Wednesday.
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Ohio seemed to be the focus of this election until John Kerry conceded to George Bush, but the Ohio count will continue. Unofficially Bush wins Ohio, but voters won&#39;t know the official count for a few weeks.
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With polls suggesting the two leading candidates are running neck and neck in their race for the White House, voters in the swing state of Ohio could decide the next president.
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After a nearly three-week absence that sparked debate about his prospects in Ohio, President Bush plans to visit the must-win battleground state Friday in hopes of quieting the campaign stir.
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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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Thanks to John Kerry's concession speech, Ohio's election workers don't exactly have the eyes of the nation on them, but their job of checking and counting the state's provisional ballots is as difficult and time-consuming as ever.