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...particularly ironic that Lewis is taking steps to raise the term bill fee now, when the council's presidential election will take place in less than a week. It would have been a simple thing to place a term bill referendum on the ballot. When students are requested to pay more for student groups, is it so much to ask that they be consulted first...
Nationwide, Canadian candidates appear in the same order on the ballots. This enables national newspapers as well as TV stations to show the ballots well in advance of the actual election day, reducing a chance that a confusing Palm Beach County ballot could sway an election. Another feature of the Canadian election system is that no precincts are larger than 500 people, making hand-counts and possible recounts much more viable...
Congress and the National Association of Secretaries of State are now weighing their options regarding such ballot standardization measures. Although Congress cannot mandate every needed change in voting procedures, it can provide the guidance and funding that states need to make sure that the electoral process accurately reports the choices of all Americans...
...County Elections Supervisor Sandy Goard, a Republican, allowed Republican staffers to add voter ID numbers to some 2,130 absentee ballot applications, most from registered Republicans, and 1,932 of those resulted in a vote. A state anti-fraud law requires that absentee ballot applications include nine pieces of information from voters, including voter ID numbers. Technically, then, 1,932 votes - most of them presumably cast for George W. Bush - are invalid...
...more than five hours into the trial, Richman had called three witnesses - and been admonished once by Clark for wasting the court's precious time. And if he had an unfairness-to-Democrats trump card that could persuade Clark to throw Seminole County's 15,000 absentee-ballot babies out with the bathwater, he hadn't played...