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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards fired up the crowd on the U-W Eau Claire campus this afternoon. Then he told them to hop on some waiting buses and travel to City Hall to vote absentee. Edwards continued to rip President Bush, calling his administration incompetent with its strategy in the war on Iraq. Hundreds of people jammed into the gym on campus and chanted ``Two More Weeks'' as Edwards took the stage. Edwards accused Bush of transforming Iraq into a haven for terrorists. He told the crowd Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stung by voting problems four years ago, the Pentagon announced on Friday it was pressing to improve absentee balloting by the U.S. military and civilians overseas in what could be a close 2004 presidential election. Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Charles Abell said he expected even greater military participation in the Nov. 2 election than in 2000 based on cooperation with states and efforts ranging from new postmarks on ballots to announcements at base movie theaters. Florida and other states experienced major problems with late and undated military votes from overseas in President Bush's razor-thin 2000 election victory....

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Online voting offers alternativeby Staff Sgt. Jeff SchoenAir Force Reserve Command Public Affairs 11/25/2003 - ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. (AFPN) -- Potentially hundreds of airmen serving worldwide may be eligible to vote online in 2004 based on a major government initiative to simplify the absentee-ballot process. The secure electronic registration and voting experiment program is part of the Federal Voting Assistance Program. Program organizers hope the experiment will encourage as many as 100,000 absentee voters, including reservists stationed worldwide, to register and vote in state primaries and the general election in 2004. The initiative is designed to improve access to the polls...

<p>The Pentagon is putting the finishing touches on an electronic voting system that will allow about 100,000 military personnel and other Americans living abroad to cast their ballots through the Internet in the 2004 elections.</p> <p>Military absentee ballots were a hot issue in the most recent presidential election, when Republicans accused Democrats of pushing Florida officials to reject overseas ballots that were improperly postmarked.</p>

County Board Chairman Lee Holloway's recall election proceeded today under a cloud after a judge refused to halt voting, and multiple instances of possible fraud surfaced as absentee ballots poured into the city Election Commission from a group campaigning for Holloway. An absentee-ballot application from a vacant lot; admissions of forgery; erroneous names on returned ballot envelopes; mismatched signatures; and other discrepancies surfaced in interviews with voters and a review of the sealed ballots. The head of the Election Commission said late Monday she would not allow counting of the disputed absentee ballots the group submitted until she receives a...