Cape County receives funds to upgrade voting machines (Cape Girardeau County) Story Here Archive |
Jennifer Freeze ~ Southeast Missourian 22 November 2005 More than $200,000 of federal funds will help Cape Girardeau County complete the upgrade of voting equipment to meet requirements of the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
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Misreading the law has state eying machines that hinder elections (NY) Story Here Archive |
Opinion LAWRENCE NORDEN & JEREMY CREELAN NY Daily News 22 November 2005 New York is about to purchase new voting machines. Unfortunately, the New York State Board of Elections has taken the position that the state may only choose from among the most expensive, error-prone and inaccessible machines available.
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Lee County buys new, used voting machines (MS) Story Here Archive |
SANDI P. BEASON Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal 22 November 2005 TUPELO - Lee County voters will see new machines and equipment when they go to the polls in June.
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Group works to mobilize disabled vote (PA) Story Here Archive |
DIANA FISHLOCK The Patriot-News 22 November 2005
Kelly Anthony has heard the predictions: NASCAR dads are going to decide this election. Soccer moms will decide that election. She wants to hear that people with disabilities are going to decide the 2008 presidential election.
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Critics pan Diebold voting machines (CA) Story Here Archive |
Ian Hoffman ANG News 22 November 2005 SACRAMENTO ? With a quarter of California counties poised to buy Diebold's latest touch-screen voting system, critics of Diebold urged its rejection Monday as open to fraud and inaccessible to handicapped voters.
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Counties await voting machines (WI) Story Here Archive |
Paul Ferguson Portage Daily Register 21 November 2005 County clerks in Marquette and Columbia counties foresee difficulties as the state switches to new voting machines and procedures brought about by the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
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Local Recount Costs Should Be Minimal (VA) Story Here Archive |
Jessica Sabbath The Winchester Star 21 November 2005 Electoral boards statewide will likely have to complete and pay for a vote recount in what appears to be the closest statewide election in Virginia?s history.
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Voting-machine firm good fit, Daniels says (AR) Story Here Archive |
MICHAEL R. WICKLINE Arkansas Democrat Gazette 20 November 2005 A committee appointed by Secretary of State Charlie Daniels gave a higher score to a Texas company than to the Nebraska firm to which he awarded a $ 15 million-or-so contract to provide Arkansas counties with new voting machines.
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Get the vote right (NY) Story Here Archive |
Editorial Elmira Star-Gazette 20 November 2005 A year from now Twin Tiers voters and the rest of New York will walk into polling places and cast their ballots on new machines. But what kind will they be, and when voters walk out how certain can they be that their votes have counted?
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Residents: New voting system needs paper trail (Chester Co., PA) Story Here Archive |
GINA ZOTTI Chester Daily Local 20 November 2005 WEST GOSHEN County residents urged the Voting System Task Force to pick a voting machine that would produce a paper trail.
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Election woes (continued) (Lucas Co., OH) Story Here Archive |
Editorial Toledo Blade 20 November 2005 Although delayed results are not the worst problem that can happen in an election, the first experiment with electronic voting machines clearly points to a need for the Lucas County Board of Elections to isolate the problems that occurred Nov. 8 and make it clear to voters what went right and what went wrong. The problems cannot simply be waved off until the next general election in 2006.
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NAACP vote hearing details new flaws (Lucas Co., OH) Story Here Archive |
JANE SCHMUCKER Toledo Blade 20 November 2005 In the midst of three hours of testimony detailing confusion and frustration in Lucas County's Nov. 8 election, Eddie Small's story drew gasps from a panel of elected officials and NAACP leaders yesterday.
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Blondin observes new voting machines (CT) Story Here Archive |
KARSTEN STRAUSS, Register Citizen 19 November 2005 SOUTHBURY - Former Secretary of the State candidate Audrey Blondin attended a demonstration of new electronic voting machines in Southbury town hall Friday.
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Voting machine company sued (NC) Story Here Archive |
Lynn Bonner News-Observer 19 November 2005 Voting machine companies should have to abide by a new law requiring they turn over information on how their systems work, a Winston-Salem woman says in a court filing.
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After four-hour hearing, Foster still mayor-elect (Pasquotank Co., NC) Story Here Archive |
LAUREN KING , The Virginian-Pilot 19 November 2005 ELIZABETH CITY ? After more than four hours of testimony and deliberation, the Pasquotank County Board of Elections decided to dismiss Councilman Bill Lehmann?s protest of the Nov. 8 mayoral run-off.
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Paper ballot is still king in some parts of the state (MN) Story Here Archive |
Kevin Duchschere, Minneapolis Star Tribune 19 November 2005 Despite new laws requiring more use of electronic voting machines, old-fashioned ballots remain an alternative.
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Judge orders recount for Franklin (Franklin Township, NJ) Story Here Archive |
Pete McCarthy Gloucester County Times 18 November 2005 A recount was ordered on Thursday to confirm a two-vote victory for Democrat committee candidate Kenneth Gallagher Jr. in Franklin Township.
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Funds awarded to improve voter independence at polls (Callaway Co., MO) Story Here Archive |
JON HETZEL The Fulton Sun 18 November 2005 A $152,000 one-time, federal fund was awarded to assist the county in updating its voting equipment, especially for voters who need assistance at the polls.
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State asks 10 counties for manual vote recount (Colorado) Story Here Archive |
DANIE HARRELSON The Daily Sentinel 17 November 2005 Ten counties in Colorado are racing the clock to get their Nov. 1 election results to the state on time.
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Board considers voting machine options (Peoria, IL) Story Here Archive |
MOLLY PARKER Peoria Journal Star 17 November 2005 PEORIA - The Peoria Board of Election Commissioners held a special meeting Wednesday to consider purchasing new electronic voting machines, but has yet to make a decision.
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