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...movement, and the photos of protesters being attacked by police dogs and pummeled by high-pressure fire hoses. Or the Vietnam anti-war movement, and the video of body bags being beamed back to America's living rooms. Even environmentalism has its iconic images, like Cleveland's heavily polluted Cuyahoga River catching fire in the 1960s, smog wreathing Los Angeles's skyline during the next decade and even the stark hole in the ozone over Antarctica. To help galvanize public support - especially around a complex issue - the right picture really can be worth a thousand words...
...country have seen an uptick in the number of homeowners challenging their homes' appraisal value. The Wall Street Journal reported that in St. Tammany Parish, La., 15,000 residents - instead of the usual 500 - requested a review of their 2008 tax bills. And the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that Cuyahoga County, which has about 1,300 foreclosures a month, saw three times as many appeals in 2007 compared with previous tax cycles. (See pictures of Cleveland's housing crisis...
Cleveland: Memories of 2004, 7:00 a.m. E.T. Memories of the 2004 presidential election haven't faded here in Cuyahoga County, where Cleveland is located. Botched administration in counties around the state tethered voters to their precincts, sometimes for hours, and the confusion forced many to cast provisional ballots, which were a source of more bureaucratic and legal bickering. Since then Ohio has enacted a month-long early voting period and Cuyahoga County has completely overhauled its elections system - twice. (See pictures of tough times in Cleveland...
...precinct-based machines are significant - they are used by voters to double-check their votes. A lack of them was the subject of an ACLU lawsuit against the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections this spring. Federal law requires voters to be given a chance to check their ballot for errors, also known as second-chance voting. (Studies have shown that mistakes on ballots lead them to be thrown out at higher rates in low-income, minority communities...
...Cuyahoga County, at least three precincts saw a scanner malfunction, according to the Cleveland ACLU. Other counties are seeing similar problems. However, the ACLU adds, most boards of elections have dispatched troubleshooters to fix the problems, leading to only short delays. The larger issue at hand is that in the interim - which was 45 minutes at one Cleveland precinct and at least four hours at a suburban voting location - voters are simply putting their ballots into locked boxes, without the ability to scan them through first. That's turning into a violation of the Help America Vote Act's second...