NAACP Sues Fla. County Over Voting Site
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The NAACP sued Volusia County's elections supervisor, alleging the county disenfranchises blacks by having only one early voting site in an area where fewer minorities live.
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Secretary of State Ken Blackwell said he will do what he can to keep ballots from the contentious 2004 presidential election beyond their scheduled destruction date in response to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday.
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Christine Jennings, the losing candidate in the race to represent Florida&#8217;s 13th District in the U.S. House of Representatives, has filed a lawsuit charging that e-voting machines in Sarasota County caused her vote total to be undercounted.
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Florida is already teeming with lawsuits charging the state and its county elections supervisors with voter disenfranchisement.
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Glitch in Palm Beach County, FL--home of the hanging chad--is cited as evidence that ATM-style voting machines are unreliable.
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Tensions have been mounting in the runup to the presidential election as Florida politicians trade accusations over claims of fraud, missing absentee ballots and concerns that thousands of voter registrations will be challenged in "hand-to-hand combat at the precincts" on Nov. 2.
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The Utah Animal Rights Coalition has filed a federal lawsuit against South Jordan and the managers of Salt Lake County's Equestrian Park and Events Center for removing a group of animal rights activists who were protesting a local circus performance.
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Frustration gripped voters in some Florida counties Monday as those who decided to take advantage of early voting had to endure long lines, malfunctioning machines and few people who could answer their questions.
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By Ron Sylvester, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Sep. 11--A Sedgwick County district judge who has pushed for campaign reform in judicial elections for 10 years has asked a federal judge in Topeka to let him join a lawsuit against the commission that wants to keep candidates silent.
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Michigan's presidential primary took a legal hit Wednesday when a lawsuit was filed asking a judge to keep the Jan. 15 contest from going forward until questions about access to voting records are resolved.
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By Sean Boone, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Jun. 16--More than 150 greenshirted Miramar Beach property owners packed the South Walton Courthouse Annex on Monday to express their opposition to Phase III of the county's Beautifi cation Project on Scenic Gulf Drive.
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The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against a Florida community challenging an ordinance banning halfway houses from residential areas.  The suit claims that Boca Raton has violated the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against recovering addicts, the Palm Beach Post reports.
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The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge on Monday to block the March 4 presidential primary in Ohio's biggest county if it switches to a paper ballot system that doesn't allow voters to correct errors.
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By JULIAN WALKER  The State Water Control Board has another lawsuit on its hands related to a proposed 165-acre mixed-use development in Chesterfield County.
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By Elias E. Lopez, The Miami Herald  Dec. 10--Palmetto Bay Mayor Eugene Flinn asked residents to join him in a fight against overdevelopment in Miami-Dade County, rising insurance rates and "unfair" mitigation fees during his annual State of the Village address Wednesday.
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Political parties and civil rights activists have brought a wealth of lawsuits on voting issues before the Nov. 2 U.S. presidential election even gets under way.
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A dispute over the unusually high number of abstentions in November 7 legislative elections in Florida reached the courts this week, with voters and a losing candidate calling for fresh elections in echoes of the state's 2000 election debacle.