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County Won’t Get More Voting Machines (AR) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, June 3, 2010 BENTONVILLE — The Benton County Election Commission hoped to purchase 200 refurbished electronic voting machines this year. That will not happen. |
Barrow Investigates City Elections (MI) Story Here Archive |
DETROIT, Mich. - Former mayoral candidate Tom Barrow has turned a routine recount of election precincts into a sweeping indictment of the entire conduct of elections in Detroit when he discovered empty ballot boxes and numerous ballot boxes with security seals which been breached, disqualifying tens of thousands of votes in the November 3, 2009 general election from being recountable. |
In Shift, U.S. Talks to Russia on Internet Security Story Here Archive |
In the last two years, Internet-based attacks on government and corporate computer systems have multiplied to thousands a day. Hackers, usually never identified, have compromised Pentagon computers, stolen industrial secrets and temporarily jammed government and corporate Web sites. President Obama ordered a review of the nation’s Internet security in February and is preparing to name an official to coordinate national policy. |
Pair fined in cases of voter fraud (OH) Story Here Archive |
Two Franklin County residents were convicted and fined Tuesday in separate voter-fraud cases from the 2008 election. Belli voted in both Fairfield and Franklin counties. Finney voted and also signed her son's absentee ballot, according to Schneider. |
Minor voting problems arise in Georgia House 129 race Story Here Archive |
A small number of voters casting ballots early this morning in the runoff race for the vacant Georgia House District 129 seat encountered delays at several Columbus precincts, Muscogee County Elections Director Nancy Boren said. |
Husband of state Sen. Teresa Ruiz indicted for election fraud (NJ) Story Here Archive |
Five people, including Essex County Freeholder Samuel Gonzalez, the husband of state Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D-Essex), were indicted Tuesday for election fraud in connection with absentee ballots they collected and submitted as workers for Ruiz's 2007 Senate campaign. |
First the Impossible, Now the Improbable, in NY-23 Story Here Archive |
As reported last week, impossible numbers were found in the St. Lawrence County election results for the special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. 93 “phantom votes,” more votes counted than the number of ballots cast, were reported in six election districts, and negative numbers reported for the “blank ballots,” or “undervotes.” |
Impossible Numbers in NY-23 UPDATED Story Here Archive |
For six election districts in St. Lawrence County (the 2nd, 4th, 6th and 7th districts in Canton, the 14th district in Massena, and the 2nd district in Oswegatchie) negative numbers had appeared in the unofficial results, in the column for “blank” ballots, known in other states as “undervotes.” |
Use of new voting machines "very successful" (NY) Story Here Archive |
She [Anna E. Svizzero] said the primary cause of voting machine failure was a memory issue related to the way ballots were programmed to record multiple votes for one office. "If the test votes were cast in a certain way, the machine would freeze up and it would not permit you to move forward," she said. "So there were no votes calculated on the voting machines and those ballots were the ones that had to be hand counted. In reviewing the county board ballot styles, the vendor located the 10 counties where that change had to be made and it was made prior to Election Day. But, in that it was humans reviewing those ballots, there were a couple of those ballot styles that were missed. So, in the field on Election Day, the problem did arise. The scanner did freeze up.” |
Poll glitch sparks corruption claims from challenger (VA) Story Here Archive |
Votes cast in three Lancaster County precincts had to be counted by hand last week after multiple machines malfunctioned, sparking claims of "cronyism" and "corruption" from one candidate. |
Ex-first man has lawyer probe Middlebury voting (CT) Story Here Archive |
MIDDLEBURY — Former First Selectman Edward B. St. John has hired an attorney to investigate ballot irregularities in the Nov. 3 election. Dennis M. Buckley, a Waterbury-based attorney, is reviewing documents filed by poll workers and election officials for St. John. |
Double-Checking Every Vote in Binghamton (NY) Story Here Archive |
It's still uncertain as of Wednesday night whether there's a one vote margin against dissolving the Village of Johnson City. The Broome County Board of Elections audited a five voting districts where the hand recount did not match the numbers from voting machines. |
Election night goes smooth except for one ‘hiccup’ (OH) Story Here Archive |
TROY — Election night was rolling along just fine, until a familiar nemesis struck at the Miami County Board of Elections. Ballot tabulating equipment was unable to read a voting machine memory card. |
Jammed voting machine misses six ballots in close race (MA) Story Here Archive |
METHUEN — A voting machine jammed during last Tuesday's election, resulting in six votes apparently going uncounted, City Clerk Christine Touma-Conway discovered yesterday. This adds a new twist to the School Committee election saga, where incumbent Kenneth Henrick placed just five votes ahead of his friend and fellow incumbent George Kazanjian. |
Vote recount yields no significant errors (NY) Story Here Archive |
BINGHAMTON Elections workers spent Tuesday counting and re-counting thousands of ballots from some of the region's closest elections, but still have hours of work to do before they confirm the totals recorded Nov. 3 in Binghamton and Johnson City. Bottom line: Votes for Binghamton mayor, Johnson City trustee and the potential dissolution of Johnson City aren't yet resolved. |
Taylor councilman's recount request might signal a wave (PA) Story Here Archive |
Claiming straight-party votes for him were not counted, backers of a Taylor councilman defeated in his bid for re-election filed Friday the first of what could become a wave of requests to recount votes cast in the election Tuesday. The petition on Councilman George P. Aulisio's behalf by three borough voters came a day after Lackawanna County Director of Elections Maryann Spellman Young announced a glitch in computer coding resulted in a failure to count up to 2,452 straight-party votes for two city candidates, Councilwoman Janet Evans in the council race and Councilman Bill Courtright for tax collector. Both had Republican and Democratic nominations. |
Voting machines absolved of blame (NJ) Story Here Archive |
TRENTON A technological problem did cause a miscount of votes from 97 voting machines Tuesday, but the discrepancy was not the fault of Sequoia Voting Systems machines, county and state officials said yesterday. |
Election results in question after voting machine glitch discovered (PA) Story Here Archive |
A glitch in Lackawanna County voting machines might have cost Councilwoman Janet Evans and tax collector candidate Bill Courtright as many as 2,452 votes each, and is spurring questions about the accuracy of other counts. |
Ohio mayor gets no votes because of ballot snafu Story Here Archive |
LIMAVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Elections officials say poll workers made a mistake and provided the wrong ballot to all 42 people who voted Tuesday in a small town in northeast Ohio. |
Election Night in Washtenaw County (MI) Story Here Archive |
County staff has been hearing all day from city and township clerks, who’ve reported that some ballots aren’t feeding into voting machines property, or aren’t being read. In Ann Arbor, for example, in several precincts there’s a one-ballot discrepancy between the machine count and the actual number of ballots. That count has to be resolved before delivering results to the county. |
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