Duval County

The prosecution of Beverly Jean Long for the 2003 murder of her husband in rural Georgia reveals a tale of two mistakes. One killed her husband, James. The other put her on trial for murder by arson. It is a story of authorities who relied on outdated...

Thousands of potential presidential votes were lost in Florida's most error-prone counties because of confusing ballot designs, inconsistent counting methods or because elections officials simply never looked at ballots that were rejected by machines....

When Portia Scott walked into the voting booth at Peace Presbyterian Church a year ago, she studied the first page of the presidential ballot, turned the page and instantly became confused. The ballot in Scott's hand looked nothing like the sample she...

The most comprehensive study of the troubled presidential election in Florida shows the main culprits were simple and fixable: ballot design, inconsistent election rules and voter error. The yearlong review of the Florida election reveals that even if...

Q: How many ballots will be counted? A: As many as 45,000 ballots. Lewis can order the recounting of these so-called undervotes in each of the state’s 67 counties “where such a recount has not yet occurred.” Specifically, the Supreme Court directed the...

Just when it seemed Vice President Al Gore was gasping his last in a marathon struggle for the White House, the Florida Supreme Court gave him a shot of oxygen, ordering the manual recount of more than 40,000 contested Florida ballots that he hopes will...

One Florida voter penned a plaintive plea on a presidential ballot: "I forgot my glasses and cannot see this. Please put Bush down for my vote." That Bay County ballot wasn't counted last year. Nor was a Jackson County ballot on which someone had circled...

Lily Levy’s killing took practice. Three gunshots to the head didn’t work. Neither did pistol-whipping nor choking her. She survived so many potentially lethal injuries one day last summer that Orange County investigators called her "the miracle lady."...

Disenfranchisement of Florida's voters in November "fell most harshly on the shoulders of African Americans" in a presidential election marked by "injustice, ineptitude and inefficiency," according to a draft report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights....