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...that houses the election supervisors, as well as the Dumpsters outside, sealed. At one point during election night, hundreds of votes for Gore had disappeared from the computer count, though they reappeared later. There is a history of election disputes in Volusia, among them the 1996 re-election of sheriff Bob Vogel, when a controversial count of absentee ballots put Vogel ahead of an opponent he had trailed on election night. That led two years later to a Florida Supreme Court decision that said elections in that state could be invalidated merely for reasons of Election Day error, even...
...building that houses the election supervisors, as well as the Dumpsters outside, sealed. At one point during election night, hundreds of votes for Gore had disappeared from the computer count, though they reappeared later. There is a history of election disputes in Volusia, among them the 1996 reelection of sheriff Bob Vogel, when a controversial count of absentee ballots put Vogel ahead of an opponent he had trailed on election night. That led two years later to a Florida Supreme Court decision that said elections in that state could be invalidated merely for reasons of Election Day error, even...
...Clark, a senior buyer for Maine retailer L.L. Bean, says the system "frees me" to talk about issues - health care and taxes and sprawl. State senator Susan Longley says "clean" campaigning has refocused her "totally on my constituents" - not contributors. Longley's challenger, former Belfast Sheriff John Ford, says without the new law, he wouldn't be in the race. When friends asked him to run, he says, "I told them I was not going to ask the people of Waldo County to give me $35,000 to $40,000" to campaign...
...People reach their boiling point much faster when they are crammed together on a plane and have no control over their surroundings. I know our local shopping malls, fast-food spots and the like all have security guards around the clock. Even our little local grocery store has a sheriff moonlighting as a guard on weekend nights. Maybe the major airlines that transport millions of people each year should consider hiring people to protect those of us who use their services. JENNIFER BAILEY O'NEIL Cincinnati, Ohio
...ACLU has filed suit against Swisher County, as well as the sheriff and the district attorney, on behalf of Yul Bryant, a black man who was arrested after apparently being misidentified and whose charges have been dropped. Some of the cases are being appealed, the Department of Justice has been alerted to the problem, the media is on the case and Tulia finds itself in the spotlight - a spotlight that has led to all kinds of grandstanding, manipulation, alliance-forming and hammy acting. In other words, Tulia has become Hollywood. Helping get national publicity focused on the situation is Randy...