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[Freddie Stubbs]

Activists Hold Forum Spotlighting Voting Issues in Presidential Election

The same day Bush's Ohio votes are certified, sponsors say much still needs to be improved.

By Nick Anderson, Times Staff Writer


WASHINGTON — While President Bush secured his reelection with a 119,000-vote victory in Ohio, voting-rights advocates dwelled Tuesday on a statistic they said told another story — more than 414,000 calls to national hotlines established to monitor complaints and compile eyewitness observations about the Nov. 2 vote.

Among those calls, according to a new report from the Common Cause Education Fund, were many accounts from Ohio.

A woman in Miami County took her registration card to a polling site, the report said, but was forced to use a provisional ballot even though her address was current.

A man in Knox County complained that his daughter was forced to wait more than seven hours to vote, one of 11,000 people able to use just two machines. "I just thought you would like to know that," the man said. "It seems a little extreme to me."

more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-voting8dec08,1,5107577.story?coll=la-news-politics-national