2.18.2005
Kerry, Clinton Offer Bill to Revamp Election Laws (Reuters.com)
By Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Failed U.S. presidential nominee John Kerry and fellow congressional Democrats offered a bill on Thursday to address voting problems like those reported last November in the pivotal state of Ohio.
President Bush won the state by less than 120,000 votes among the more than 5.5 million cast as he captured a second term amid a crush of claimed irregularities in Ohio.
Complaints included ones of partisan election officials, voter intimidation, long lines and an inadequate number of voting machines in neighborhoods that favored Kerry.
Kerry rejected calls to challenge the results, but has vowed to make upgrading elections laws a top priority even as he keeps open his options of running again in 2008.
(More ... Politics News Article | Reuters.com) ¶ 22:39
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Failed U.S. presidential nominee John Kerry and fellow congressional Democrats offered a bill on Thursday to address voting problems like those reported last November in the pivotal state of Ohio.
President Bush won the state by less than 120,000 votes among the more than 5.5 million cast as he captured a second term amid a crush of claimed irregularities in Ohio.
Complaints included ones of partisan election officials, voter intimidation, long lines and an inadequate number of voting machines in neighborhoods that favored Kerry.
Kerry rejected calls to challenge the results, but has vowed to make upgrading elections laws a top priority even as he keeps open his options of running again in 2008.
(More ... Politics News Article | Reuters.com) ¶ 22:39
