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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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| Give us an honest vote in Florida
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June 3rd, 2004
We confidently predict that the outcome of the 2004 presidential election will not hang on paper ballots' "hanging chads" in Florida. We are immensely troubled, though, that the Nov. 2 Election Day winner could be determined by denying the vote to thousands of Floridians, predominantly African Americans, who will be purged wrongly and in our view illegally from the voter rolls.
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| People For the American Way Foundation Protests New Voter Purge
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June 1st, 2004
People For the American Way Foundation (PFAWF) is protesting Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood’s order for rapid implementation of a new purge list with the names of 47,000 Floridians, while thousands of voters remain wrongly disenfranchised from the purge lists implemented in the 2000 and 1999 elections. Foundation President Ralph G. Neas said voters wrongly stripped from the rolls in past elections should be restored before the same mistakes are made again, and he offered the foundation’s help.
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| Use Care in Voter Purge
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June 1st, 2004
About 47,000 registered voters in Florida are in jeopardy of being disenfranchised because state records show they are convicted felons who haven't had their civil rights restored.
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| Florida Campaigns Aim to Assure Black Voters
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May 30th, 2004
SAWDUST The party had barely begun when Shirley Green Knight arrived with her opticalscan voting machine, lugging it out of a pickup truck and stationing it between the DJ and the food tent. The sight was no longer strange to the people of Gadsden County, where Knight, the elections supervisor since 2001, attends most communal gatherings with the machine and a gently pleading message: Your vote will count this time, so please, please come out.
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| Purging ethics from voter rolls?
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May 29th, 2004
After an elderly aunt saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon and plant an American flag, she turned to us and said: "That's just one of those make-believe picture shows. Don't let what you think you see mess up your mind."
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| CNN asks Florida court for ineligible voters list
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May 29th, 2004
WASHINGTON (CNN) As Florida county election boards review a list of thousands of potentially ineligible voters including some who may be felons CNN is suing the state, claiming the public and media should also be able to review the list.
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| More Florida Voting Fiascos Possible, Groups Warn
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May 29th, 2004
MONTREAL, May 29 (IPS) - Some five-dozen residents of the U.S. state of Florida appeared in a hearing before Governor Jeb Bush in March to explain why they should be allowed to regain certain civil rights, including the right to vote.
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| Paper Ballots Available Only in Limited Cases
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May 29th, 2004
SANTA FE?? ??? Voters cannot obtain a paper ballot in Tuesday's primary election just because they have doubts about electronic voting machines, according to Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron.
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| More Florida Voting Fiascos Possible, Groups Warn
by Marty Logan, IPS News
May 28th, 2004
Some five-dozen residents of the U.S. state of Florida appeared in a hearing before Governor Jeb Bush in March to explain why they should be allowed to regain certain civil rights, including the right to vote.
But those citizens were ?berated about their personal debt? to society or ?because they mistakenly voted? in a previous election, says one eyewitness to the hearing.
Everything comes into play, from what medication a person is taking... it's truly shocking and gut-wrenching,? says Courtenay Strickland of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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| 2004 Voters' Bills of Rights for New Mexico
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May 28th, 2004
You have the right to vote—it’s the law, and you have the proof in your hands! You’ll notice letters and numbers after each of your rights listed below-those codes tell lawyers and poll-workers where to find the actual New Mexico statute that protects your right to vote! These rights are guaranteed to properly registered and qualified voters. You have the right to bring this bill of rights with you into the polling area-if you feel your rights have been violated, please call the Election Protection lawyer hotline toll free: 1-866-OUR-VOTE.
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| Alabama Provisional Ballots
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May 28th, 2004
Provisional ballot
Anna Neville, chairman of the board of registrars, said a new federal law, Help America Vote Act, makes it easier for voters to go ahead and vote even if they show up at the wrong polling place.
The act was passed as a result of the "hanging chads" and vote county controversy in Florida after the last presidential election.
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| Election reform matters in the long run
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May 27th, 2004
The 2000 presidential election uncovered many flaws with the election system in Florida and other states. In a near unprecedented display of bipartisan cooperation, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002 that will change the way we run elections in this state and, indeed in all states. It received support from civil-rights groups, advocates for the disabled and government oversight groups.
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| Coalition fears major voting problems will recur
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May 26th, 2004
WASHINGTON - Problems that voters encountered in Florida and elsewhere in 2000 are likely to recur this fall unless Congress, states and voters fix them quickly, a coalition of voters' rights groups warned Wednesday.
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