Four million to five million voters did not cast a ballot in the 2008 presidential election because they encountered registration problems or failed to receive absentee ballots, which is roughly the same number of voters who encountered such problems in the 2000 election, according to an academic study to be presented to the Senate Rules Committee on Wednesday.

In the clearest sign yet that he has dramatically shifted strategies since falling behind in the U.S. Senate recount, Republican Norm Coleman's campaign said Monday that it will push to have all 12,000 absentee ballots rejected in the election reconsidered and to ensure that those wrongly set aside are counted.

A Republican-controlled House subcommittee tabled most of the bills, which means they likely won't return in the six-week legislative session that started Wednesday. Similar bills have failed in past years.
Republicans argued that the 17 excuses people can use to cast an absentee ballot before an election already address the conflicts people may have.

DETROIT -- Absentee ballots go out to voters next week, and they're in such demand they could decide the mayoral primary that a Wednesday poll suggests is becoming a three-man race.

In their fight to overturn the U.S. Senate recount, Norm Coleman's legal team has begun pressing some Minnesota counties for documents on hundreds of thousands of ballots that were not previously disputed.

An automatic, manual recount of the Minnesota U.S. Senate race that began could last until mid-December. As non-partisan, election integrity advocates in Minnesota, we welcome this attention and hope that one of the outcomes will be lessons learned that strengthen our democracy.
 

The letter, dated Oct. 31, accused Fulton County voter registration officials of failing to process absentee ballot requests and send out ballots in a timely manner.

County Republicans said the ruling, issued in response to their lawsuit, is likely to end up affecting few ballots and would follow a process in place in Marion County under the previous clerk.
But it means that any ballots facing challenges won't be counted Tuesday or show up in election results that night.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Election officials scrutinizing absentee ballots in Duval County have rejected more than 500 ballots out of the 1,600 questionable ballots examined so far.
 
Most of those were rejected because they lack signatures or the signatures don't match the voter's signature on file.
 

TAMPA, FL -- Nearly 90 percent of the absentee ballots checked by the Hillsborough County Canvassing Board so far have been rejected and will not count in the November 4th General Election.

Canvassing Board member Keven White told ABCActionNews.com that 55 of 103 ballots canvassed today were rejected because they had no signature.