Fla. Will Reject Incomplete Voter Forms
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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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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.
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Florida elections supervisors want to give voters several days to elect candidates, a proposal offered after early voting in last month's presidential election apparently helped avoid a repeat of the 2000 election debacle.
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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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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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U.S. Postal Service investigators on Wednesday were trying to find thousands of absentee ballots that should have been delivered to voters in one of Florida's most populous counties, officials said.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Just five weeks before Election Day, a federal appeals court Monday revived a lawsuit demanding that all Florida voters who use touchscreen machines receive a paper receipt, in case a recount becomes necessary...
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A Democratic county clerk sent absentee ballot applications to all registered voters over 60 in her jurisdiction Thursday, after a judge rejected Republicans' arguments that the unrequested mailings were illegal.
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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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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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The Florida Democratic Party accused Secretary of State Glenda Hood of violating federal law when she told elections supervisors across the state that they should reject incomplete voter-registration forms.
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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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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.  - A Florida judge ordered  county elections officials on Wednesday to issue absentee  ballots without the name of independent presidential candidate  Ralph Nader, a possible blow to President Bush in the  battleground state.
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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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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Oct. 16, 2004 - Florida set new guidelines for recounting touch-screen ballots in close elections, but voter-rights groups said the court-ordered decision doesn&#39;t go nearly far enough to ensure a fair election.
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FORT LAUDERDALE Florida election officials are scrambling to solve a case of tens of thousands of missing absentee ballots. Broward County&#39;s Elections Supervisor has ordered duplicate ballots sent to voters who have not returned their original ballot.
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A federal advisory group rejected a measure yesterday that would have discouraged states from using electronic voting systems that lack an independent means of verifying their results, according to a spokeswoman for the National Institute of Standards and Technology.