Jun 8 - By Associated Press
Many of the voting and counting mishaps of the bizarre 2000 general election were not fixed four years later and brand new problems arose, including a rash of fraudulent voter registrations in some areas, congressional investigators say.
May 20 - By The Associated Press, AP Writer
THE STAKES: Voters were casting ballots for mayor and several other municipal seats in the runoff election Saturday.
May 19 - By Associated Press
The town council voted to seek removal of the mayor, who is charged with rigging his election two years ago, including a scheme to buy votes with beer and cigarettes.
May 11 - By Juan A. Lozano, AP Writer
Dozens of hurricane evacuees boarded buses Thursday for a trip home to New Orleans to hear their two remaining mayoral candidates debate and to cast early ballots in next week's runoff election.
May 10 - By Dan Goodin, AP Technology Writer
Officials overseeing elections in three states have directed local authorities to take additional security measures with a popular type of electronic voting machine to prevent election fraud.
May 7 - By Associated Press
Democrats called Monday for the secretary of state to remove himself from an investigation into widespread voting problems that plagued last week's primary election in Ohio's largest county.
May 5 - By Associated Press
The state Supreme Court on Friday allowed a county commissioner to take his seat following an 18-month challenge by his opponent, who protested the counting of some provisional ballots.
May 4 - By Larry Neumeister, AP Writer
A landmark civil rights law cannot be used to argue that barring felons from voting discriminates against minorities because they are imprisoned at a higher rate, a federal court ruled Thursday.
May 4 - By Connie Mabin, AP Writer
The state's largest county counted ballots and searched for lost voting-machine memory cards Thursday, two days after widespread voting problems blemished Ohio's first election without punch-card ballots.
May 3 - By Connie Mabin, AP Writer
Ohio's first election without punch card ballots was marred by a slew of problems with new voting machines, raising a crucial question: Can the state that decided the last presidential race get it together before November?
Apr 5 - By Mary Clare Jalonick, AP Writer
A provision inserted into an Iraq spending bill this week would attempt to make it easier for troops abroad to vote.
Apr 2 - By Paul J. Weber, AP Writer
Snaking his Mercedes through a cluster of low-income rentals in a corner of Houston densely packed with Hurricane Katrina evacuees, Eusi Phillips stops at each complex and makes two deliveries: a stack of absentee voter forms for the front office, and fliers he tapes above washing machines urging tenants from New Orleans to cast their ballot in the April 22 election back home.
Mar 29 - By Associated Press
Florida's attorney general said Wednesday his office has issued investigative subpoenas to the three companies certified to sell voting machines in Florida as he reviews a dispute between the firms and Leon County's elections supervisor.
Mar 21 - By David Kravets, AP Writer
A group of voters sued the state and 18 counties Tuesday in a bid to prevent them from using Diebold Election Systems' electronic voting machines in California's general election.
Mar 21 - By Mary Clare Jalonick, AP Writer
Twelve senators are asking Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to make it easier for troops abroad to vote, saying the current system is outdated.
Feb 28 - By Marc Humbert, AP Writer
The federal government sued New York on Wednesday to force it to comply with a law prompted by the disputed 2000 presidential race that requires states to update their voting machines.
Feb 23 - By Brian Skoloff, AP Writer
An examination of Palm Beach County's electronic voting machine records from the 2004 election found possible tampering and tens of thousands of malfunctions and errors, a watchdog group said Thursday.
Feb 21 - By Erin Texeira, AP National Writer
Unfair tactics and confusing rules still make it tough for many minorities to cast election ballots, and the barriers are so common that the federal safeguards for voters must be renewed, a detailed new report from a civil rights group says.
Feb 16 - By Mark Stevenson, AP Writer
Fewer than 57,000 Mexican migrants have requested absentee ballots for the presidential election, officials said Thursday — a showing many say reflects serious flaws in the effort to include millions living abroad in the vote.
Feb 6 - By Robert Tanner, AP National Writer
Fewer voters will cast their ballots by punching a card or pulling a lever in this November's elections as the country continues to turn to newer, electronic machines, according to a study released Monday.
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