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"The core of our American democracy is the right to vote. Implicit in that right is the notion that that vote be private, that vote be secure, and that vote be counted as it was intended when it was cast by the voter. And I think what we're encountering is a pivotal moment in our democracy where all of that is being called into question." ( more here)
Kevin Shelley, former
California Sec. of State
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| Lawsuit Seeks Access to Voter Purge List in Florida
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June 14th, 2004
While omitting a name from a mailing when it closely matches one appearing on a suppression file probably would indicate good judgment on the part of a direct marketer, it's another story when it comes to a state purging names from its voter rolls.
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| Voting centers to return
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June 13th, 2004
Larimer County voters will be casting ballots at vote centers again this year rather than at precinct polling places.
The vote-center system, which was introduced in November, will be used in the Aug. 10 primary and Nov. 2 general elections, said Larimer County Clerk and Recorder Scott Doyle.
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| Taxpayers paying for state's attorneys in fight over felon list
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June 12th, 2004
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The state has agreed to spend at least $125,000 on private attorneys to fight for a law restricting the release of voter records.
Records show that Secretary of State Glenda Hood's office will pay $425 an hour to a Miami attorney, plus $300 an hour for six more lawyers to fight for a statute that Attorney General Charlie Crist has said is probably not worth defending.
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| Lawyers enlisted in voter battle
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June 12th, 2004
Tallahassee · The state has agreed to spend at least $125,000 on private attorneys to fight for a law that restricts the release of voter records, even though Attorney General Charlie Crist has said the statute is probably not worth defending.
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| Release the felons list
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June 12th, 2004
Floridians should have no doubt that state election officials want every vote to count. But for all their count-every-vote rhetoric, those officials continue to display all-too-cavalier thinking. Their refusal to release the list of 47,000 potential felons, many of whom could be mistakenly purged from voting rolls, is the latest case in point.
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| Open Voter Purge List
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June 12th, 2004
Florida's flawed election of 2000 put a cloud over the presidency and made the state the laughing stock of the nation. One reason: A wildly inaccurate voter purge list that mistakenly identified 8,000 Floridians as felons thus ineligible to vote and that listed 2,300 felons, despite the fact that the state had restored their civil rights.
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| Will there be observers in Miami-Dade?
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June 11th, 2004
LESS than six months away from the U.S. presidential elections in November, the voting system in the state of Florida - where the last election became a farce - is as much of a disaster as it was in 2000.
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| . . . and make it public Our position: Taxpayers deserve full access to names of suspected felons purged from rolls.
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June 11th, 2004
Deep in the bowels of a 103-page election-reform bill, state lawmakers three years ago pulled the wool over taxpayers' prying eyes.
Clever wordsmiths exempted the names of suspected felons on state voter rolls from public scrutiny. Oh, political-action committees, government officials, political parties and politicians retained unfettered access. Just not the unwashed masses whose interests lawmakers are elected to preserve and protect. The law said they could look at the names, but not take notes or copy the documents.
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| Election certified, protested
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June 11th, 2004
Jasper County voters, politicians and election officials are still trying to figure out what went wrong with Tuesday's primaries and why.
An avalanche of problems came cascading down around the heads of election officials and candidates on Tuesday, and on Thursday there was talk of a possible protest and call for new elections.
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| Voter-list lawsuit still alive
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June 10th, 2004
A lawsuit seeking access to the state's suspected-felon purge list moved a step forward in Leon Circuit Court on Wednesday, when Judge Nikki Clark decided enough gray legal areas existed not to dismiss the suit out of hand.
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| Controversy surrounds purge
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June 10th, 2004
State officials told Florida's supervisors of elections Wednesday they have set up a call center and Web site to help with the tedious task of verifying the accuracy of a list of 47,000 potential felons who could be purged from the state's voter rolls.
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| Purging of rolls to go slowly
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June 10th, 2004
KEY WEST - Election supervisors from across the state said Wednesday that they plan to independently verify whether someone is ineligible to vote because of a felony conviction.
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| Jasper council incumbents ousted
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June 10th, 2004
Two Jasper County Council members were defeated in their Tuesday bids for re-election and Councilwoman Gladys Jones will face Samuel Gregory in a runoff, according to unofficial final tallies.
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| Voting problems could spawn lawsuits
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June 10th, 2004
The nonprofit group that wants to repeal South Dakota's law that requires voters to show photo identification at the polls plans to file lawsuits in federal courts in Rapid City, Pierre and Sioux Falls
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| 'Or' could stop release of state felon voter lists
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June 10th, 2004
TALLAHASSEE A single word in the Florida Constitution could be enough to block Cable News Network and journalists across the state from investigating a controversial list of 47,000 suspected felons on the state voter rolls.
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| Policy on Felons and Voting Is Still Unclear in Florida
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June 10th, 2004
KEY WEST, Fla., June 9 - County elections supervisors peppered state officials on Wednesday with questions about purging felons from their voter rolls, suggesting at a meeting here that numerous attempts to clarify Florida's policy had not ended confusion on the issue.
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| FDLE offers supervisors guidance on voter list purge
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June 9th, 2004
KEY WEST, Fla. - State officials told Florida's supervisors of elections Wednesday they have set up a call center and Web site to help them with the tedious task of verifying the accuracy of a list of 47,000 potential felons who could be purged from the state's voter rolls.
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| Pandemonium rules in Jasper
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June 9th, 2004
Hundreds of Jasper County voters who cast absentee ballots in Tuesday's primary may see their votes nullified and voided, Election Commission members said.
The commission began challenging absentee ballots Tuesday afternoon based mostly on incorrect requests for absentee ballot applications.
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