New Mexico recount effort stalled Story Here Archive |
Chris Graham Augusta Free Press 20 December 2004 It's not looking like there will be a presidential-vote recount in New Mexico.
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Make sure voters can count on system Story Here Archive |
Opinion Indianapolis Star 20 December 2004 Our position is: Americans need assurance that when they go to the polls, their votes will count.
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GOP chief accuses election office of misleading public on absentees at issue Story Here Archive |
KATHY GEORGE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER 20 December 2004 BELLEVUE Brandishing a newly released report that he called a "smoking gun," state Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance accused King County election managers yesterday of misleading the public about hundreds of uncounted votes in the still-unsettled governor's election.
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In May, workers told how to verify ballots Story Here Archive |
Lornet Turnbull and David Postman Seattle Times 20 December 2004 King County election workers were told as early as May that if an absentee ballot came in without a matching signature on file they were required to make a concerted effort to verify that the vote was valid.
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Irregularities in Ohio Story Here Archive |
Matt Loy Harvard Crimson 20 December 2004 While Harvard students mull over the split ticket outcome of the recent Undergraduate Council presidential elections, Ohio residents are still technically waiting for the results of another election?their Electoral College delegation for last month?s presidential race. Six weeks and one major Eastern European voting scandal later, what happened on November 2 in the Buckeye State remains unclear. Though Bush?s victory is not realistically under scrutiny, Ohio voters deserve a quicker and more thorough examination of the election results than they will receive.
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Count Every Vote Story Here Archive |
Editorial New York Times 20 December 2004 Every vote is supposed to count in America, but candidates too often maneuver to disqualify votes that they think might go to the other side. A month and a half after Election Day, battles are still raging in Washington State and in San Diego over whether to count all of the votes that were cast. The answer to that question must be yes.
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State's counties vary on verifying signatures Story Here Archive |
Associated Press 20 December 2004 SEATTLE Procedures for validating ballot signatures vary widely from county to county in Washington state, a fact that has become significant given the razor-thin margin of the governor's race. A survey by The Seattle Times showed that counties use different procedures for evaluating signatures, the newspaper reported Sunday.
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Green Party official pleased with local recount of presidential vote Story Here Archive |
David Laber Athens NEWS 20 December 2004 The statewide presidential recount is not over yet, but in most of southeastern Ohio, county boards of elections have complied with requests and the voting counts are accurate, a regional coordinator said.
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Congressman calls for investigation of election in Hocking County Story Here Archive |
David Laber Athens News 20 December 2004 An affidavit signed by the Hocking County Board of Elections deputy director has prompted the ranking Democratic member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee to ask for further investigation into possible vote fraud.
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Wash. Supreme Court to decide fate of King County disputed ballots Story Here Archive |
KING and AP Staff 20 December 2004 TUKWILA, Wash. - Washington's Supreme Court will hear an appeal Wednesday morning by Washington's Democrats, who are asking the court to overturn a judge's decision and allow King County to include 723 disputed ballots in the hand recount of the Washington governor's race.
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Democrats advocate a cherished value Story Here Archive |
JIM SAWYER GUEST COLUMNIST Seattle Post-Intelligencer 20 December 2004 Washington state has become ground zero in the war between reds and blues as the gubernatorial race between Republican Dino Rossi and Democrat Christine Gregoire heads to the wire. The chairmen of both political parties Republican Chris Vance and Democrat Paul Berendt need to chill out.
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Other counties included 'new' ballots in recounts Story Here Archive |
Rebecca Cook Associated Press 21 December 2004 At least five Washington counties found ballots that weren't included in the original tally for governor and added them to the recount, according to an affidavit by state Elections Director Nick Handy.
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Other Counties Tallied New Ballots In Their Recount Story Here Archive |
KOMO Staff & News Services 20 December 2004 SEATTLE - At least five Washington counties found ballots that weren't included in the original tally for governor and added them to the recount, according to an affidavit by state Elections Director Nick Handy.
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Ohio Recount: Interview with Chair of Franklin County's Board of Elections Story Here Archive |
Elites TV. December 20, 2004 Like Tim Burke, Chair of Hamilton County's Board of Elections, William A. Anthony, Jr., chair of Franklin County's Board of Elections disagrees with the uniformly positive statements coming out of Ohio's secretary of state's office.
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Governor's Race So Close, Yet So Divisive Story Here Archive |
Sam Howe Verhovek, Los Angeles Times 19 December 2004 SEATTLE ? Every vote counts, and every vote should be counted. If only it were that simple.
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Elections directors shop for solutions Story Here |
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Run for Congress stymied by wrongly marked ballots Story Here Archive |
Greg Moran San Diego Union Tribune 19 December 2004 For the candidate ? a maverick outsider mounting a last-minute, write-in campaign ? the elation of election night slowly turned to bitter defeat.
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Ohio Election Officials Obstruct Recount. Story Here Archive |
News Release Green Party USA 19 December 2004 Reports from throughout Ohio present a clear and disturbing pattern of state and local election officials obstructing the recount of Ohio?s 2004 presidential vote, according to the Green Party?s presidential campaign which initiated the recount and is monitoring the process.
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Voting in America: The flaws persist Story Here Archive |
The Roanoke Times 19 December 2004
The Florida vote-count debacle of 2000 did not recur in 2004. For that, however, credit the fact that this year's presidential election was not as agonizingly close as in 2000. Do not credit great strides toward a fairer, more accurate and more confidence-inspiring system of voting and vote-counting. The latter does not yet exist. The Florida margin in 2000 was extraordinarily tight: George W. Bush won the state that year by 537 votes (officially, anyway) out of millions cast, and the election hinged on Florida's electoral votes.
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Elections directors shop for solutions Story Here Archive |
RICHARD RUBIN Charlotte Observer 19 December 2004 Some of the latest voting machines on the market will be on display in Raleigh on Monday, ready for an N.C. commission on electronic voting to examine.
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