As Voting Rolls Increase, So Do the Wild Cards
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Many newly registered voters with uncertain allegiances are the focus of an intense tug of war in closely contested states.
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Most limit such voting to local elections and legal immigrants. But state legislatures often intercede.
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Voting lines are building around Nevada, and confusion is beginning to build in some spots.
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The Democrats appear to be gaining the upper hand in the battle to sign up new voters in the all-important swing states, an Associated Press analysis suggests.
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Different readings in the presidential race point, in part, to a volatile electorate.
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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President Bush and Sen. John Kerry aren&#39;t the only ones whose futures are riding on Tuesday&#39;s election. Also at stake: the reputation of Diebold, the largest maker of electronic voting machines.
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The wild card had many detractors when it debuted in 1995. But this year, doubters are hard to find.
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The surge in early voting is affecting where candidates are sent and money is spent in the final days of the campaign.
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The Maryland General Assembly's battle over legalizing slot machines has now lasted longer than the Civil War.
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New voters are signing up in record numbers across the United States as state deadlines to register to vote expire this week, but it is unclear which party will benefit from the influx.
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SAN DIEGO -- With their chances in the NL West looking bleaker, the San Francisco Giants at least gave themselves a big boost in the wild card race.
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Some states have increased their inventory of native plantings as part of a movement to allow wildflowers and grasses return to roadsides and median strips.
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Democratic turnout has far exceeded the Republican showing in the contests so far, but the meaning for the November election is a matter of dispute.
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The interior West has added new independent and Latino voters who are up for grabs.
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A registration campaign in Democratic areas has added tens of thousands of new voters to the rolls in Ohio and Florida.
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