Most voters give the system a thumbs up    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, March 12, 2006 REN?E C. LEE Houston Chronicle 08 March 2006 Octogenarian Lucy Myrick embraces change even when it means ditching old-fashioned paper ballots in favor of high-tech voting machines.

New voting system, same problems    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, March 12, 2006 TJ Aulds Galveston County Daily News 08 March 2006 Galveston County?s elections were to have moved into the computer age Tuesday with the party primaries. But despite a new electronic voting system and new software for voter registration, problems long a part of the county?s election night history cropped up again.

Salinas earns majority over Garcia with all precincts in    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, March 12, 2006 Victoria Hirschberg The Monitor 09 March 2006 EDINBURG ? It looks like Juan de Dios "J.D." Salinas garnered enough votes to be the next Hidalgo County Judge after all 140 precincts reported Wednesday afternoon ? almost one day after polls closed.

Hairy Potter elections    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, March 12, 2006 Michael Smith And Phillip Yates Amarillo Globe-News 09 March 2006 Light emerged at the end of a a nearly day-long tunnel for some of Potter County's precinct-level candidates after county election officials released unofficial results Wednesday from Tuesday's primary.

Robertson County says glitches delayed results    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, March 12, 2006 HOLLY HUFFMAN The Bryan-College Station Eagle 09 March 2006 Robertson County election officials on Wednesday blamed software glitches and mechanical problems with the county's new electronic voting equipment for the delay in tabulating ballots on election night.

Voting-machine company says no thanks, Leon    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, March 12, 2006 Jeff Burlew Tallahassee Democrat 09 March 2006 None of the three voting-equipment companies certified to sell in Florida will be doing business in Leon County. On Wednesday, a spokeswoman for Sequoia Voting Systems confirmed in an interview with the Tallahassee Democrat that the company will not sell its touch-screen machines to Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho. The other two companies, Election Systems and Software and Diebold Election Systems, also have said they will not sell to the county.

State: Leon backup voting system jeopardizes federal compliance    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, March 12, 2006 Jennifer Kay Associated Press 09 March 2006 The state has requested a meeting with Leon County officials regarding contingency plans for helping disabled people vote without assistance in the event of a special election, saying the county puts Florida at risk for a federal lawsuit over noncompliance.

Sancho, Cobb to meet about HAVA issues    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, March 12, 2006 Jeff Burlew Tallahassee Democrat 11 March 2006 Sally Benjamin looks forward to the day she can cast votes at her precinct in private, without anyone's help. Benjamin, president of the Tallahassee Council of the Blind, is visually impaired. Since 2002 she has been voting through the mail, marking her ballot at home with the help of a closed-circuit television enlarger. In years past, she voted at her precinct with a family member's assistance.

Voting failure may prompt suit    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, March 12, 2006 Jeff Burlew and Bill Cotterell Tallahassee Democrat 10 March 2006 Threatening a lawsuit over Leon County's failure to get voting machines for disabled citizens by a state deadline, Secretary of State Sue Cobb summoned county officials Thursday to a meeting next week to explain themselves. "As you know, we have the authority to file suit to enforce state law," Cobb told Commission Chairman Bill Proctor.

Tarrant County elections officials report glitch (TX)    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, March 9, 2006 By JEFF MOSIER / The Dallas Morning News FORT WORTH – A software programming error allowed some Tarrant County votes to be counted as many as six times during Tuesday's primary election, county officials said.

County election board unanimous on ion of electronic voting machine (PA)    Story Here

CitizensVoice.com February 1, 2006. BY JAMES CONMY STAFF WRITER WILKES-BARRE — Luzerne County’s 75-year-old voting machines were officially retired Tuesday. The county’s new, electronic 17-inch touch screens allow residents to scroll through races and candidates, as well as review their ballots, before casting a final vote. The machine will present election options much like an ATM guides customers through financial transactions.

Lawsuit leveled at electronic voting (PA)    Story Here  Archive

Jerome L. Sherman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 07 January 2006 State Sen. Jim Ferlo has joined a group of voting rights activists in a lawsuit aimed at forcing Westmoreland County to seek more public input before it purchases a new generation of touch-screen voting machines for the upcoming May primary election.

Alameda County latest to want all-mail election (CA)    Story Here  Archive

Ian Hoffmann ANG News 07 January 2006 In the chaotic marketplace for voting equipment, California counties are scrapping their vendors, dumping one machine for another and experimenting with new kinds of voting.

Mailboxes may be only vote venue (Alameda Co., CA)    Story Here  Archive

Guy Ashley CONTRA COSTA TIMES 07 January 2006 OAKLAND - With controversy and technical problems dogging electronic voting equipment, Alameda County's chief elections official has proposed an unprecedented option: eliminating most polling places for next June's statewide primary and asking county voters to mail in their ballots instead.

Registrar proposes buying new touch screen voting machines for primary (Riverside Co., CA)    Story Here  Archive

Dave Downey North County Times 07 January 2006 Riverside County's elections chief Friday proposed buying a new set of touch-screen voting machines, in time for use in the June 6 primary. Riverside is a pioneer of sorts in the voting arena, having been the nation's first large county to trade in its paper ballots for electronic ones six years ago. In March 2000, the county purchased 4,250 electronic voting machines for $14 million, and those machines have been used in more than 30 elections.

Secretary of state says voting machine company misled her (CT)    Story Here  Archive

Keith M. Phaneuf, Journal Inquirer 06 January 2006 The Simsbury company targeted to provide Connecticut's next generation of voting machines "misled" state officials about a crucial federal approval process, Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz charged Wednesday.

To touch or to scan? That is the question (NC)    Story Here  Archive

Amy Kingsley Yes Weekly 04 January 2006 Guilford County officials will soon face a multi-million dollar question: Touch-screen or optical scan? The question refers to voting technologies and their decision will have repercussions in the democratic arena as well as the financial one. While issues like cost and efficiency may keep a lower profile than headline-grabbing allegations about security and access, those concerns animate just as many experts with opposing opinions.

Officials working on voting upgrades after HAVA deadline passes (Lee Co., MS)    Story Here  Archive

SANDI P. BEASON Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal 04 January 2006 TUPELO - Lee County still has work to do in getting its polling places up to par with a federal mandate to make precincts handicapped-accessible.

Cheshire rejects voting mandate for machines (MA)    Story Here  Archive

Shaw Israel Izikson, North Adams Transcript 04 January 2006 CHESHIRE ? According to the Selectmen, if it ain't broke for over 213 years, don't fix it.

Ballot debate remains in flux (Westmoreland Co., PA)    Story Here  Archive

Los Angeles Times 04 January 2006 Five years after the vote-counting debacle in Florida suspended the election of a new U.S. president, states are embroiled in a contentious debate over how voters should cast ballots.

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