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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...interim - which was 45 minutes at one Cleveland precinct and at least four hours at a suburban voting location - voters are simply putting their ballots into locked boxes, without the ability to scan them through first. That's turning into a violation of the Help America Vote Act's second-chance voting provision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Dispatches: It's Morning for the Kenyan Obamas | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...most vocal defenders of the dunes, accused the Scottish government of selling a "greener Scotland down the river" for Trump's money - loaded words, as the rallying cry of many Scottish Nationalists is that the Scots sold their country "down the river" for English gold by joining the 1707 Act of Union with England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trump to Build Contested Scotland Complex | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...Florida chairwoman. Browning, who like Crist has proved to be a more bipartisan operator than his predecessors, spent 26 years as a county elections supervisor, was president of Florida's Association of Elections Supervisors and was one of the state's point persons for the federal Help America Vote Act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Florida Avoid Another Election Day Meltdown? | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

...bank or get gas, so why not for the most precious thing we have - the vote?" Though legislation was introduced last February requiring hard copies for "e-voting" results, Congress has yet to vote on the bill (known as the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ballots in America | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

...party officials have been convicted of hiring a firm to jam Democratic phone lines during the 2002 election-Sununu has tried to present himself as, well, a maverick. In the Senate, he has gone out of his way to stake out some independent ground-opposing reauthorization of the Patriot Act, supporting land conservation issues, and being the first Republican Senator to call for the resignation of former attorney general Alberto Gonzales. During the last televised debate in the Senate race, both candidates were asked to identify issues on which they took stands that were politically unpopular. Shaheen paused uncomfortably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Sununu Survive the Toxic GOP? | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

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