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...pictures of tough times in Cleveland...
...Cleveland: Memories of 2004, 7:00 a.m. E.T. Memories of the 2004 presidential election haven't faded here in Cuyahoga County, where Cleveland is located. Botched administration in counties around the state tethered voters to their precincts, sometimes for hours, and the confusion forced many to cast provisional ballots, which were a source of more bureaucratic and legal bickering. Since then Ohio has enacted a month-long early voting period and Cuyahoga County has completely overhauled its elections system - twice. (See pictures of tough times in Cleveland...
...line to vote Monday afternoon for Democrat Barack Obama. She had her three toddler-aged children in tow and was calling up nieces and nephews, some of them first-time voters, to join her. "It's the recession," Bonner said when asked why. "It's crime in Cleveland, it's no jobs." She says, "Everybody who didn't vote last time is voting this time...
...this election year - and an almost commensurate number of legal battles between Republicans and Democrats over which ones should count. It remains unclear which party will gain the upper hand, however, and both candidates continue swinging away at the quintessential swing state, with many neighborhoods far-flung from Democratic Cleveland still in play. By Charu Gupta / Cleveland...
...Cuyahoga County, at least three precincts saw a scanner malfunction, according to the Cleveland ACLU. Other counties are seeing similar problems. However, the ACLU adds, most boards of elections have dispatched troubleshooters to fix the problems, leading to only short delays. The larger issue at hand is that in the 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...