Florida authorities searching 58,000 missing ballots
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Authorities in Florida were looking for 58,000 absentee ballots whose disappearance stirred renewed controversy in the state that held up the 2000 presidential election for five weeks.
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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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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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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  - Fears that thousands of  absentee election ballots had gone astray in a hotly contested  Florida county appear to have been allayed on Thursday when  officials said a far small number were missing.
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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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A U.S. government auditor still doesn't know what contributed to 18,000 unmarked ballots in a 2006 Florida congressional race.
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U.S. Postal Service investigators on  Wednesday were trying to find thousands of absentee ballots  which should have been delivered to voters in one of Florida's  most populous counties, officials said.
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MIAMI: US Postal Service investigators on Wednesday were trying to find thousands of absentee ballots, which should have been delivered to voters in one of Floridaâs most populous counties, officials said.
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Ballot boxes have been emptied and votes are being counted at 600,000 polling stations across the country. Many are being counted in the open air, attracting large crowds of onlookers.
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About 46,000 people are registered to vote in two states, New York and Florida, a violation of both states' laws that could affect the outcome of the November presidential election, according to an investigation by the Daily News.
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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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Within hours of the opening of advance polls in the American presidential election, problems were being reported in the state of Florida.
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THE STRATEGY: Politicians are reaching out to voters who have already applied for absentee ballots.
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Republican presidential candidates have  swarmed through Florida looking for votes but a family squabble  has kept Democratic rivals out of the state or reduced them to  sneaking inside its borders.
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With the presidential race in full swing, Colorado and other states have found critical flaws in the accuracy and security of their electronic voting machines, forcing officials to scramble to return to the paper ballots they abandoned after the Florida debacle of 2000.
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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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Voters line up to check in before using the electronic voting booths, foreground, on the first day of early voting Monday, Oct. 18, 2004 at the Supervisor of Elections Office in West Palm Beach, Fla.