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We May Never Know What Happened in the Ohio Vote Story Here Archive |
The right to vote and to have each vote count is the cornerstone of democracy, but deep cracks are showing in this cornerstone. |
Federal Standards Needed to Reduce Voter Fraud Story Here Archive |
WASHINGTON (NNPA) ? The patchwork of local and state voting laws should be replaced with a single federal standard that would make it easier to detect and reduce voter fraud, community leaders say. |
Court decision tightens 'vote early, often' practices Story Here Archive |
A state appellate court Tuesday set a new standard for absentee voting in affirming that Calumet City Mayor Michelle Markiewicz Qualkinbush did, in fact, win the April 2003 election. |
Ohio GOP election officials ducking subpoenas as Kerry enters stolen vote fray Story Here Archive |
COLUMBUS Ohio Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell refused to appear at a deposition on Monday, December 27. The deposition was part of an election challenge lawsuit filed at the Ohio Supreme Court. Meanwhile John Kerry is reported to have filed a federal legal action aimed at preserving crucial recount evidence, which has been under GOP assault throughout the state. |
Ohio recount ends, shows vote closer Story Here Archive |
TOLEDO, Ohio - Election officials finished the presidential recount in Ohio on Tuesday, with the final tally shaving about 300 votes off President Bush's six-figure margin of victory in the state that gave him a second term. |
New Mexico Recount Goes Back to Court Story Here Archive |
NEW MEXICO December 28 Attorneys for Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb will file a Notice of Appeal on Tuesday from a District Court decision which rejected Cobb's request to start the New Mexico recount without paying the entire cost of it in advance. Last week the New Mexico Supreme Court declined to hear the case. Since the Supreme Court did not rule on the merits of the case, it can be heard by the New Mexico Court of Appeals. |
Kerry Joins Cobb's Request to Preserve Evidence in Ohio Recount Story Here Archive |
OHIO - December 28 - The Motion filed by Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb last week, asking a Federal Court to preserve a wide range of evidence to ensure the integrity of the Ohio recount, was officially supported by the Kerry-Edwards campaign today |
Election Day leftovers Story Here Archive |
Compared with the presidential election in Ukraine, this year's elections at home went off smoothly. Certainly no candidate here had to overcome massive fraud or a bizarre face-disfiguring poisoning. But eight weeks after Election Day, several U.S. races are still unresolved because of glaring human errors, machine malfunctions, disputes over vague or contradictory election laws and other echoes of the mess that tied up the presidential race four years ago. |
DNC launches investigation into election anomalies Story Here Archive |
WASHINGTON (Special to the NNPA from Afro newspapers) - Just as Florida proved a laboratory for election reform after its 2000 debacle, Ohio is a treasure trove of information about election issues and practices, said Democratic Party leaders recently as they announced the launching of an investigation into the 2004 elections in that state. |
End it now Story Here Archive |
The members of the state Board of Elections have another chance Wednesday to get it right in Carteret County. This time, the board should follow common sense and declare a winner in the Nov. 2 race for state agriculture commissioner. |
Legal Fight Over Recount Could Continue For Weeks Story Here Archive |
SANTA FE ? Green and Libertarian presidential candidates are continuing their legal fight for a ballot recount in New Mexico and plan to take their case to the state Court of Appeals. |
Forty Faxes and a Whisper: Texas Election Scandal Story Here Archive |
"As I look back over the General Election held on Nov. 2, 2004, I know that voting is a 'right' that is being taken away everyday," writes Brenda Denson-Prince. But she is not writing about far away places like Ohio or Florida. She is writing about her own attempt to become the first woman in Kaufman County, Texas to sit on the County Commissioners Court. On the day after Christmas, Denson-Prince faxes me forty pages. |
In Focus: More fuel to recount fire Story Here Archive |
Those who have raised issue with the administration of the 2004 presidential election in Ohio have more fuel for their fire. |
The election is over, it's time to move on Story Here Archive |
There's hardly a day goes by that we are spared yet another story about a protest involving the vote count somewhere in this year's election. |
Solution to lost votes is to use electronic voting Story Here Archive |
Lost in all the petty bickering about Ohio?s presidential election is the continuing problem with residual, or ?lost? votes in that race. Residual votes occur when over- or under-votes occur, which means either more than one candidate was ed or no candidate was ed. The biggest problem is ion of more than one candidate. And the solution to that problem is electronic voting. |
Doing the Right Thing Story Here Archive |
Jesse Jackson and the Green Party are both on the progressive side of the political spectrum, but it's still quite something to see them, along with many other groups, coming together to try to get to the bottom of the voter disenfranchisement/election machine fraud/voter suppression scandal that continues to grow despite a near-whiteout by the corporate media. |
Kerry Preparing Grounds to Unconcede: Election Challenge likely on Jan 6th Story Here Archive |
If you haven't been following John Kerry closely, get ready to hear of surprising developments. The vote-defrauded, potential president-in-waiting has just indicated through his lawyer that the validity of George Bush's reelection is no longer a given. |
Goodbye Theresa Story Here Archive |
The Supervisor of Elections office on Military Trail in West Palm Beach is calm today. The staff toils in morgue-like quiet. There are no protesters outside, no sheriff?s deputies, no obvious security forces. |
Kerry Files Motion to Protect Ohio Vote Evidence Story Here Archive |
This afternoon, an attorney representing the Kerry/Edwards presidential campaign filed two important motions to preserve and augment evidence of alleged election fraud in the November election. The motions were filed in the matter titled Yost et al. v. Delaware County Board of Elections and J. Kenneth Blackwell (Civil Action No. C2-04-1139) with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The document is titled "Motion Of Intervenor-Defendant Kerry-Edwards 2004, Inc. For A Preservation Order And For A Leave To Take Limited Expedited Discovery." |
Setting Standards for Fair Elections Story Here Archive |
The much-delayed work of setting federal standards for electronic voting machines is speeding up, and there is reason for concern. Voting machine companies and their supporters have been given a large say in the process, while advocates for voters, including those who insist on the use of voter-verified paper receipts, have been pushed to the margins. Election officials and machine makers may be betting that after the presidential election, ordinary Americans have lost interest in the mechanics of the ballot. But Americans do care, and it is unlikely that they will be satisfied by a process in which special interests dominate, or by a result that does not ensure vote totals that can be trusted. |
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