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TRENTON, N.J. -- An agreement has been worked out that will result in a new budget for the state of New Jersey, sources told NewsChannel 4 on Thursday. Gov. Jon Corzine and lawmakers are still hammering out details on how to spend the penny sales tax increase. Indications are at least half the revenue will go for property tax relief this year with larger amounts going for property tax relief in later years. If lawmakers can begin acting on this deal, Atlantic City casinos could be open sometime this weekend and full state services would resume as early as Monday.

Duke men's lacrosse program to be reinstated ESPN.com news services The Duke men's lacrosse program, which was suspended from play following accusations of rape, will be reinstated next week, ESPN's George Smith reported. A news conference is expected Monday.

Polling Results September 21, 2004 - Terrorism Fear Lifts Bush To Dead Heat In New Jersey, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Voters Say Iraq War Is Wrong And Economy Is Bad President George W. Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry are locked in a 48 - 48 percent tie among New Jersey likely voters, including undecided voters leaning toward a candidate, with 2 percent for independent candidate Ralph Nader, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Among registered voters, Sen. Kerry is ahead 47 - 43 percent. This compares to a 49 - 39 percent Kerry lead among registered voters,...

Court rejects Dem redistricting appeal The state Appellate Division today rejected state Democrats' request that the Legislative Redistricting Commission not be ordered to draw a new map. The Court told the Commission that "Its opinion is its mandate" in upholding the decision that declared unconstitutional the legislative redistricting map. Republicans challenged the map based on the division of Newark and Jersey City into three districts, as opposed to two. Democrats have already prepared their appeal to the State Supreme Court, which is expected to decide whether to take the politically charged case. (02/10/03)

http://www.cn8.tv/This regional cable network is devoting an hour to the New Jersey US Senate race from 9 to 10. (The 8 to 9 hour will have the two Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidates in separate 30 minute segments.) This has become something of a tradition in this area - major party candidates appear live with host Lynn Doyle the night before the election for softball questions and some viewer call-in. Host Lynn Doyle will be listening to a democratic hack, er, I mean "strategist" from 9 to 9:30 (really, he is one of the worst transgressors - a Carville with no sense...

<p>WHEN DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS WENT BEFORE THE STATE SUPREME COURT EARLIER THIS WEEK - TO ARGUE FOR AND AGAINST REPLACING BOB TORRICELLI'S NAME ON THE NOVEMBER BALLOT- MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNORS OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS BRAZENLY LOBBIED KEY MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA - INCLUDING NEW JERSEY 101.5 - TO CONTACT LEGAL SCHOLARS WHO AGREED WITH THE DEMOCRATS POSITION - AND USE THEM AS SOURCES FOR THE STORIES BEING WRITTEN- A HIGHLY UNUSUAL APPROACH THAT CLEARLY VIOLATED STATE ETHICS REGULATIONS...</p>

Liberals win majority government WebPosted Mon Nov 27 22:46:45 2000 OTTAWA - Jean Chrétien's gamble to call an early and unwanted election has paid off, as his Liberals will form a majority government. He becomes the first prime minister to win three consecutive majority governments since Mackenzie King in the 1940s. Chretien was re-elected in his own riding, as was Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe. Alliance leader Stockwell Day has been declared re-elected. New Democratic Party leader Alexa McDonough won her seat in Nova Scotia.

MSNBC led their 7:00 EST report with "NBC News has learned that the Supreme Court opinion may be announced as early as tonight, no later than tomorrow" Developing...

PLANTATION, Fla. (AP) -- Republicans accused the Broward County canvassing board of bowing to political pressure Sunday after the board reversed a decision to disqualify ballots with dimple or one corner chads. The board had been throwing out any ballots that did not have two corners poked out of the chad — the tiny pieces of paper in a punch-card ballot. “The Gore campaign now wants to lower the bar because it needs more votes,” said Ed Pozzuoli, chairman of the county's Republican Party. Pozzuoli said it was unfair for the board to change the rules in the middle of ...

Answer by Katherine Harris (.pdf) Answer by George W. Bush (.pdf) Answer Brief by Butler Motion to Modify Oral Arguments

The documents filed by the Bush Cheney campaign are now available at the Fla Supreme Court website. Click Here

Latest results from the overseas absentee ballot count in the presidential race in Florida. Republican George W. Bush now leads Democrat Al Gore by 577 votes in the overall vote, which includes vote totals already certified by the state plus the overseas ballots. With overseas votes in 58 of 67 counties counted, the survey by The Associated Press shows Bush picked up 679 votes and Democrat Al Gore gained 402 votes.

Latest results from the overseas absentee ballot count in the presidential race in Florida. Republican George W. Bush now leads Democrat Al Gore by 333 votes in the overall vote, which includes vote totals already certified by the state plus the overseas ballots. With overseas votes in 32 of 67 counties counted, the survey by The Associated Press shows Bush picked up 141 votes and Democrat Al Gore gained 108 votes. These results do not include any vote gains made by the candidates in disputed hand recounts underway in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Broward County reports Gore has gained ...

SANFORD - Democratic Party activist Harry Jacobs was expected to file a lawsuit Friday that would seek to invalidate the 15,000 absentee ballots cast by Seminole County residents before election day. The suit accuses Seminole County Elections Supervisor Sandy Goard of illegally allowing GOP activists to alter 4,700 absentee ballot requests, almost all of them from registered Republicans. The suit asks that all of the absentee ballots that resulted from those 4,700 requests be thrown out, or if they can’t be identified, all of the county’s absentee ballots be voided. If that happens, Vice President Al Gore would almost certainly ...

Maria Cantwell - (D) 1,080,297 (48.60%) Slade Gorton - (R) 1,085,442 (48.83%) Jeff Jared - (L) 57,086 (2.56%) RETURNS AS OF 09:19 AM - 11/15/2000

Postal Service Rushes Overseas Ballots To Counties Special Effort To Get Ballots In By Friday MIAMI, Posted 2:07 p.m. EST November 14, 2000 -- Overseas ballots coming into Florida are being delivered to the state's 67 counties the day that they arrive. The U.S. Postal Service is rushing overseas military ballots through its delivery process in order to make the Friday 5 p.m. deadline for absentee ballots. The ballots are being separated by workers at the Air Mail Center near Miami International Airport. That's the arrival point for all overseas mail. Ballots destined for South Florida counties are being ...

Bartow - Polk County elections workers and campaign representatives pushed through a grueling 17-hour day only to find out early Sunday morning that Gore lost a crucial 90 votes from his Election Day total in a single precinct. Polk was completing a routine exercise of reconciling accounting errors in 92 of its 163 precincts. It happened in a predominantly black voting precinct in Lakeland where the vice president had dominated the count. The error was a larger example of the minor discrepancies that had shown up in other precincts. Polk County uses a system where ballots are marked with a ...

Is there a source for a county by county listing of what machines or ballot types are used by each county in Florida? The Leon County commissioner who held a press conference today shown on either CNN or MSNBC calling for a 100% handcount statewide had some form of a chart which he said indicated the "undercount" in punchcard counties, compared to the undercount in other counties. Does anyine have a a report on this chart? Is anyone aware of any academic research on the number of ballots that on which the vote for President is not made and the ...

What are the precincts that are being recounted in PBC? Has any media reported on this? Please post on this thread so that we can begin analysis of the original machine read vote....

Minor mathematical errors have caused the canvassing board of Seminole County to recount by hand every one of 137,350 ballots cast on Tuesday. Seminole County election personnel spent all night Wednesday recounting ballots. Mathematical mistakes were found in 52 of the county's 133 precincts. At first, the county decided to recount only the ballots with discrepancies, but representatives of the Republican and Democratic party objected. In one precinct, there were 1,350 available voters and 986 votes were cast. However an election worker wrote that more than 3,000 ballots were used. "It was a long day and at the end of ...