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| | Election Day (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Election Day is a legal holiday in some states, including Delaware, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, New York and Ohio. | | | Article One of the United States Constitution requires that any election for the U.S. President must occur on a single day throughout the country; elections for Congressional offices, however, can be held at different times. | | | Election Day in the United States is the day when polls most often open for the election of elected public officials. |
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| | November 2004 Election Calendar |
| | Last day for the governor to conduct the state canvass for the general election for state and county officers. | | | Last day for political party chair of appropriate executive committee to certify nominee to fill a vacancy and/or replacement nominee to the Secretary of State, county clerk, or elections administrator, as applicable. | | | First day of period during which a notice of general election for state and county officers and other special elections ordered by the county must be published in a newspaper of general circulation. |
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| | United States Elections 2004 |
| | Because of its federal system, in which both the national government and the state governments have distinct powers, election day in the United States is actually the occasion for a series of simultaneous state and local elections, each held under separate administrative procedures. | | | The closeness of the election outcome in Florida and the fact that it was the last state to be able to complete its vote count made it a special target of both the Bush and Gore forces in the weeks after election day. | | | One of the distinct lessons of the 2000 election was that the election administration, balloting, and vote-counting issues encountered in Florida could have occurred to some degree in almost any jurisdiction in the United States. |
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| | TomPaine.com - The Perfect Election Day Crime |
| | As the number of voters grew by as much as 50 percent in some precincts, according to pro-Kerry field organizers, the number of voting machines on Election Day shrank by a third. | | | Franklin County election officials have said they used the 2000 presidential vote as the basis for allocating voting machines in the 2004 election. | | | Even though Franklin County election officials have their ready defense to deflect charges of intentional voting rights violations, Democratic field organizers said the placement of too-few voting machines at inner city precincts came amid a broader campaign of voter intimidation aimed at Democrats. |
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http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_perfect_election_day_crime.php
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| | Ohio Voters tell of Election Day Troubles at Hearing |
| | For three hours, burdened voters, one after another, offered sworn testimony about Election Day voter suppression and irregularities that they believe are threatening democracy. | | | Ohio Voters tell of Election Day Troubles at Hearing | | | The organizers chose Ohio because it was a swing state in the presidential election as well as the site of numerous claims of election fraud and voter disenfranchisement. |
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| | Embedded.com - Electronic Election Day |
| | After the next mid-term elections, a slew of contests won by the narrowest of margins raised questions only recently resolved by the Supreme Court. | | | One wag suggested, for instance, that a Republican in Maryland (there are a few) shouldn't bother casting a vote in state-wide elections. | | | Jones won the presidential election despite not being on the ballot and why the incumbent's Democratic opponent gathered not a single vote, this reporter has seldom seen an election run in such an efficient and forthright manner. |
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| | Election Day (United States) |
| | In 1854, Congress established Election Day in response to abuses caused by the previous system of electing the President and Vice-President. | | | Every four years, on Election Day, (Tuesday after the first Monday in November), registered *voters in the United States cast their votes for presidential electors. | | | Under the old system, states could appoint electors at any time within 34 days prior to the convening of electors in December. |
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| | Jeff Jacoby: Election day, RIP? |
| | Already in much of the country, voters no longer have to wait until Election Day to vote. | | | "If you wait until Election Day," Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano told The Washington Post, "you've missed the first half of the vote." Election Day officially occurs on Nov. 2 this year, but as much as 30 percent of the turnout will have occurred before then. | | | All of which means that "Election Day" has been reduced to little more than a figure of speech. |
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| | Election 2004 |
| | A last-minute glitch delayed the final vote totals for yesterday's general election, but voting was brisk and enthusiastic at polls statewide thanks to a close presidential contest. | | | O'ahu voters were still standing in line to vote 45 minutes after the polls were supposed to close, delaying the release of the first election returns tonight. | | | Democrats increased their strength in the state House of Representatives this morning, turning back Republicans who had hoped to erase the Democrats' veto-proof majority. |
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http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/specials/election2004
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| | CNN.com - Officials discuss how to delay Election Day - Jul 12, 2004 |
| | What has Homeland Security officials worried is that terrorists could attempt to disrupt the election in the same way that train bombings in Madrid created unrest three days before the Spanish general election, the Homeland Security spokesman said. | | | "We've had elections in this country when we were at war, even when we were in civil war, and we should have the elections on time. | | | Newsweek reported that Soaries expressed concern that no federal agency had the authority to postpone an election and asked Ridge to ask Congress to give his commission such power. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/11/election.day.delay/index.html
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| | Computerized Voting Machines were used to steal the 2002 Senate election |
| | AP - The state's top elections official said Tuesday that security problems found in new touch-screen voting systems mean they won't be in place statewide in time for the November 2004 presidential election. | | | The "hanging chad" scandal in Florida in the 2000 election seems, in retrospect, to have been an elaborate distraction from the deeper scandals of the way it was rigged (expelling voters from the voting rolls, behind-the-scenes manipulation of the judicial and political processes). | | | Election 'reform' laws are now prohibiting paper ballots (no trail) and exit polls, effectively removing all trace and record of votes, making prosecution of voter fraud virtually impossible. |
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| | truthout, Election 2004 Blog |
| | A few important truthout features you should be aware of: We have been running for the last several weeks a Voter Rights page, which has reported on election issues all across the country. | | | Young George is about to lose his first election. | | | Additionally, a much greater proportion of Americans are qualifying as likely voters than in previous election years. |
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| | ELECTION FRAUD 2002 |
| | It is now effectively illegal for citizens in 49 states to count their own votes on election day. | | | A statewide recount in Alabama's gubernatorial election demanded by Democratic Governor Siegelman gave victory to his Republican challenger: | | | But when it comes to counting votes in an election, she favors plain old paper. |
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http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html
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| | Education World® : Special Theme: Primaries, Voting, and Elections |
| | Use these five activities to drive home the importance of voting, teach about the process of creating laws, track election results and voter turnout, and teach students what its like to make the tough decisions that elected officials make every day. | | | Teachers across the United States are using news stories about the upcoming national election as a timely lesson in citizenship. | | | The election campaign and the vote lie ahead. |
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http://www.education-world.com/a_special/election.shtml
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| | Encyclopedia: Election Day (United States) |
| | Election Day in the United States is the day when polls most often open for the election of elected public officials. | | | There are tens of thousands of voting precincts in the United States, each of which must be supplied and staffed with election judges on Election Day, usually a workday in most of the country. | | | The United States hold elections to federal offices every two years; midterm elections is the name given to elections when the United States House of Representatives and one third of the US Senate are being elected, but not the President. |
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| | Elections 2004 |
| | Election 2004- The U.S. Senate in the Balance - Foreign Press Center Briefing | | | Congressional, State Elections Heat Up: Southern States Key in Senate Races - IIP, Dept. of State | | | --10/25/04 The Upsurge in Voter Registration and Expectations for Turnout in the 2004 Elections ; Curtis Gans, Director, Committee for the Study of the American Electorate; Foreign Press Center Briefing; Washington, DC -- Official Transcript |
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| | Elections 2004 |
| | Election results for President, Senate, House, and Governors by state | | | Presidential elections from the perspective of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and North Dakota | | | Main screen includes articles and selected documents on the election process and political parties, browsable within category or searchable by keyword (e.g. |
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| | United States - encyclopedia article about United States. |
| | The federal government is the national government, comprising the Congress (the legislative branch), the President (the executive branch), and the Supreme Court (the judicial branch). | | | The separate state governments and the U.S. federal government share sovereignty, in that an "American" is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of residence. | | | • President The President of the United States (often abbreviated "POTUS") is the head of state of the United States. |
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| | Election Day Diary – Not a Gay Day by James Ostrowski |
| | They then "united" to form a limited federal government and naturally chose a form of election that protected their independence and recognized their prior, separate and continuing existences. | | | Early on Election Day, my wife Amy and I are in the car and I hear the local radio guy quote Drudge as saying that voting machines in Philadelphia had votes recorded on them before the election started! | | | As I had said, the election was always about Ohio. |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: United States Constitution |
| | Article Six establishes the Constitution, and the laws and treaties of the United States made in accordance with it, to be the supreme law of the land. | | | The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America and is the oldest codified written national constitution still in force. | | | It also provides for the office of Vice President of the United States, a figure whose official role is to step in if the President is incapacitated or resigns, and to serve as the presiding officer for debate in the Senate, with a vote in cases of tie. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The United States of America |
| | A principle of the Massachusetts constitution of 1780 was interpreted by the supreme court of that state as abolishing slavery. | | | By the Constitution the judicial power of the United States is vested in a supreme court, and such inferior courts as the Congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish. | | | In examining the constitutionality of a state law one is to assume that the state legislature has power to pass all acts whatever, unless they are prohibited by the Constitution of the United States or by the constitution of the state. |
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| | Bendomenech.com: Election Day |
| | And with the partial birth abortion ban already teed up and ready for the court to decide, this election may turn out to be the most important decision for the cause of human life that we have ever faced. | | | But for my own part, this election might as well be about one issue alone. | | | To help you track the election results once you're done nervously tinkering with electoral pick 'em maps, I'd suggest watching the data come in at MegaPundit's useful aggregator - other sites such as Electoral Vote.com are promising to stay up into the wee hours, but we'll see how long that really lasts. |
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| | Elections in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The election is held 17 working days after the date of the Proclamation, as regulated by the Representation of the People Act 1983, s. | | | In years with a general election it is usual practice to hold both general and local elections on the same day. | | | Local elections elect councillors forming the local administrations of the United Kingdom are elected. |
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| | United Kingdom - encyclopedia article about United Kingdom. |
| | The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, with executive power exercised by the government (formally Her Majesty's Government) drawn from Parliament, headed by the Prime Minister. | | | Prime Minister In the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising many of the executive functions nominally vested in the Sovereign, who is head of state. | | | It is the ultimate legislative authority in the United Kingdom, according to the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty. |
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| | Election Day Dawns With Unpredictability (washingtonpost.com) |
| | After the longest and costliest campaign on record, President Bush and challenger John F. Kerry remained deadlocked nationally and in key battleground states yesterday, with both sides expressing confidence that late trends and their Election Day get-out-the-vote operations will deliver a victory when the polls close tonight. | | | The first presidential election since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan find the country as deeply divided as it was in the aftermath of the disputed 2000 election that put Bush in the White House. | | | Bush lost the popular vote but won the necessary electoral voters after the Supreme Court sided with him in a dispute over a recount in Florida. |
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| | Holidays and Festivals - United States of America |
| | Commemorates the raising of the United States flag on Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima by the Marines in 1945. | | | Wyoming became the forty-fourth state on this day in 1890. | | | Memorial Day is observed in most states on the last Monday in May. Except as noted, Columbus Day is observed on the second Monday of October, Martin Luther King Day is on January 15, Robert E. Lee Day is on January 19. |
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| | Explananda: Election Day |
| | Suppose that one week before election day, the United States is hit by a major terrorist attack - I mean a really big one, like a dirty bomb on the Washington Mall or a liquified gas tanker exploding in the port of a major American city. | | | If your answer is yes, you definitely would want the election to go forward on the scheduled day, terrorist attack or no terrorist attack, then I guess you're entitled to regard any legal tampering as an automatic outrage. | | | Obviously no one can afford to be casual about the prospect of a postponed election (especially in the American political system, with its oddly inflexible timetables). |
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| | Parliament of the United Kingdom - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | As the frequent elections were deemed inconvenient, the Septennial Act 1716 extended the maximum duration to seven years, but the Parliament Act 1911 reduced it to five years. | | | The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). | | | Universal adult suffrage prevails; citizens of the United Kingdom, as well as citizens of the Republic of Ireland and of Commonwealth nations resident in the United Kingdom, are qualified to vote. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Text of the Constitution of the United States - Encyclopedia |
| | The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. | | | This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress. | | | This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress. |
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| | The Onion 2004 Election Guide America Decides 2004 |
| | MIAMI, FL—With the knowledge that the minority vote will be crucial in the upcoming presidential election, Republican Party officials are urging blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities to make their presence felt at the polls on Wednesday, Nov. 3. | | | WASHINGTON, DC—Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao announced Wednesday that voter turnout for the 2004 election resulted in an "abysmal" 32 percent drop in productivity and millions of vital work hours lost Tuesday. | | | NEW YORK—Observers from around the world report that they were inspired and moved by America's most recent attempt to hold a public election in accordance with the standards of a democratic republic. |
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