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2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2004
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Patty Hill, third grade teacher at the St. John's School of Lawrence Catholic Center 1234 Kentucky St., leans down to answer a student's question. Hill brought her class to the polling site yesterday to observe the electoral process.
Voting problems arise
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Machines malfunctioned, tempers flared and edgy voters often waited hours yesterday to pick a president in a contentious race watched by thousands of monitors who expected the worst.
By the close of East Coast polls, only scattered local snafu had been reported in an election turnout that was shaping up to be the heaviest in years.
"So far, it's no big, but lots of littles," said Doug Chapin, director of the Election Reform Information Project, a nonpartisan research group. "We know of no major meltdowns anywhere along the lines some people were worried about."
About 50 percent of all voters said they were certain ballots in their state would be accurately counted, according to a national Associated Press exit poll conducted by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International.
Hyper-vigilance appeared to be the order of the day, which in some states prompted poll closures and unfounded complaints.
In New Jersey, a suspicious substance later determined to be spilled salt prompted the two-hour closure of a Mount Laurel precinct. In Pennsylvania, zealous GOP election monitors complained that some Philadelphia voting machines already had thousands of recorded votes when the polls opened at 7 a.m.
explained that voting machines registered every vote ever cast on them and that did not constitute evidence of fraud.
Local election officials quickly
In Colorado, Republican Party officials said a lawyer for the Democrats showed up at an Eagle County precinct with a list of registered GOP voters, planning to challenge them all. Democrats acknowledged it was true.
In other closely contested states — including Iowa and Michigan — the liberal group MoveOn.org was accused of disturbing local precincts. In Ohio, a woman filed a lawsuit on behalf of voters who didn't receive absentee ballots on time, asking they be allowed to cast provisional ballots. Later, a Toledo federal judge granted her request.
Also in Michigan, the NAACP filed a Justice Department complaint, saying it received 55 complaints that GOP poll watchers were harassing voters in Detroit.
New touch-screen voting machines, criticized by computer scientists and several elections officials as susceptible to hacking and malfunction, were used Tuesday in 29 states and the District of Columbia. Only Nevada has mandated the machines produce paper receipts, which could make recounts more reliable.
In Florida, which gave the 2000 election to George W. Bush on the basis of 537 votes, 10 touch-screen voting machines failed at various precincts in Broward County. Nearly half the state's voters were using the ATM-like machines.
a lawsuit seeking at least $15,000 in damages, claiming they were punched, pushed, shoved and spat on when they showed up at a Halloween rally for Democratic candidate John Kerry, dressed as giant flip-flops. In a separate lawsuit, the ACLU asked that absentee ballots mailed within the United States be subject to the same deadline, Nov. 12., as overseas ballots.
Provisional ballots, new this election, also prompted disaster fears because they could delay any recount efforts. Any voter whose name does not appear on precinct rolls is entitled to cast a provisional ballot. Elections officials must individually certify them as being cast by registered voters before they can be counted.
In Florida, two Bush supporters filed
A Kerry campaign lawyer said some Pennsylvania voters were prevented from voting when at least a dozen Allegheny County precincts ran out of provisional ballots. More ballots were on their way, and voters were encouraged to return later in the day.A similar complaint surfaced in New Mexico.
States have differing and confusing rules about deadlines for such ballots. Some states, for example, allow absentee votes to be counted days after the election, provided they are postmarked by Nov. 2. Others mandate that mailed ballots received after Election Day do not count.
And in more than a dozen states, election officials missed the recommended deadline for mailing absentee ballots overseas, meaning soldiers risking their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan might not get them in time to vote.
ON THE RECORD
A 21-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police that someone had stolen her blue and yellow Elle purse from her car sometime Saturday night in the 2500 block of Winterbrook Drive. Her loss and cost of damages are estimated at about $2,200.
Lawrence police arrested a 19-year-old KU student about 3 a.m. Saturday morning in the 800 block of Tennessee Street. He was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol, driving with an open container and minor in possession.
ON CAMPUS
Hall Center for the Humanities will hold an American Seminar by Michael Yellow Bird tomorrow from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Hall Center Conference Room.
Brown Bag Classics sponsored by the KU School of Fine Arts presents Elaine Fukunaga, piano, today from 12:30 to 1 p.m. at the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The KU School of Fine Arts presents the University Singers tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church.
NATION
Defense lawyer questions motives in Peterson murder
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Scott Peterson's lawyer pleaded with the jury yesterday not to convict his client of murder just because prosecutors made him look like a "jerk and a liar."
"You're not supposed to just decide this case on whether or not you like Scott Peterson," he said.
Geragos accused authorities of waffling on their theory of the crime. He said they first claimed an affair was his motive for murder, then raised financial issues and pointed to Peterson's desire to be free from marriage.
The jurors heard the prosecution's closing argument Monday and were expected to begin deliberations as early as today.
Prosecutors claim Peterson strangled or smothered his wife on Dec. 23 or 24, 2002. Defense lawyers claim someone else abducted and killed Laci.
- The Associated Press
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